The BreakFree Blog

Are Your Product Teams Focused or Revolving?

Form your product team on the corner of shared vision and required skillsets to reap the benefits of Agile and Scrum.

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To Adopt DevOps, You Need a Game Plan

Through the DevOps Playbook Framework, enablement teams now exactly how to support the adoption of this core capability By Bradley...

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Avoid Pitfalls with Our Roadmap

6 critical steps for optimizing DevOps, Agile, and Cloud By Bradley Clerkin, CTO You need the right road map to get you where you want to...

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How NOT to Do DevOps 

To get the most value from DevOps, top enterprises avoid these 6 pitfalls By Bradley Clerkin, CTO By now, you’ve probably seen hundreds...

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Digital Transformation

Understanding Pre- and Post-Digital Operating Models

It’s not a transition, but an expansion of the IT operating model By Bradley Clerkin, CTO To have the most success from digital...

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Digital Transformation

Service Requests Mentality is a Blocker to Digital

IT must become a partner and enabler of digital — not a service provider By Bradley Clerkin, BreakFree Solutions CTO Becoming digitally...

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Continuous Retrospect

How to improve teams beyond the Scrum Retrospective event By Bia Dimovski, BreakFree Solutions Senior Agile Coach The sprint...

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Do Devs Not Want to Do Ops?

Leaders who look to separate dev from ops may be missing the point. Should development and operations be separated again?

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Streamlining the Value Stream Mapping Process

When working with clients on their digital product initiatives, one of the first things we often do is create a value stream map (VSM).

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Reviewing Backlogs to Promote Functionality

A functional backlog supports the PO’s vision and allows the team to bring that vision to life. By BreakFree Solutions To be productive,...

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Is Your Team Cross-Functional or Multi-Functional?

When looking to speed up production times, cross-functional teams are the superior structure. By BreakFree Solutions Staff Many use the...

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The Digital Triad: DevOps, Agile and Cloud

You must operationalize all three By Bradley Clerkin The digital operating model for CIOs must include the triad of DevOps, Agile, and...

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How to Best Use Your Talents in Scrum

Each Myers Briggs personality type has different strengths they can use through Scrum methodology By Sara Fauver, Senior Solutions...

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Effective Application of Scrum Techniques and Tools

There are many different tools and techniques that can be used in Scrum — but not all teams should consider all tools all the time in...

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SRE: DevOps’ Little Brother?

SRE may be hiding in DevOps' shadow but it’s equally important for digitally capable organizations By BreakFree Solutions Staff Most...

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How to Stop Sabotaging Your IT initiatives

Using the Simple Sabotage Field Manual as a guide of what NOT to do and share some strategies we perform consistently at BreakFree.

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