Our Journey: Building with Generative AI, Part I
Businesses of all sizes and industries are eager to take advantage of Generative AI right now, so I’m going to share some details of Revelry’s journey with this emerging technology over the past year.
Lean Agile
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Balancing Value and Urgency in Product Development
In the world of software / product development, managing priorities can feel like a perpetual tug-of-war. On one side, we have urgency: planned deadlines,…
Developer, Manage Thyself: How to Help Your Product Manager
Here are 8 things Developers can do to balance the effort of communication across entire project sprints.
Teaching Product Management Through Interactions and Conversations
I started my tech career more than 10 years ago. Growing up, did I dream of being a Product Manager? No. (I didn’t even…
Building with Bricks and Bytes – The Overlapping Worlds of LEGO and Software Engineering
By Amy Collins, Software Engineer As a software engineer and LEGO enthusiast, I spend my days designing with code and my nights designing with…
Why Your Team Needs a Product Manager
At Revelry, we like to think of our product managers as both the conductor and the orchestrator – directing priorities and ensuring those priorities…
The Fractal Nature of the Revelry Software Development Process
“There’s a fractal nature to the Revelry software development process. Whenever I advise someone who is stuck using our process, I see this psychedelic,…
How to Kill Staging Without “Testing in Production”
Most software teams have left behind the Waterfall(1) methodology in favor of approaches that move faster and flex more to accommodate changes and maximize the…
Online Planning Poker for Accelerated Decision Making
Planning poker is an important part of estimating time spent on a project. But how do companies that recently went remote do planning poker? Here’s how we do planning poker for remote teams.
Slack Communication With Clients and Partners — Our How and Why
At Revelry, we have a pretty solid internal Slack communication structure. Here’s how we collaborate with multiple innovation partners on Slack.
How Our One Week Sprints Are Like Blazing a Trail
This is how we keep track of the landmarks that tell us we’re still on the right trail. It’s not always a straight line, but the journey is beautiful.
How to Cope with Growing Pains of a Scaling Culture
Don’t Get Turned Into Spaghetti By Tidal Forces As You Approach The Event Horizon Opinions about ‘scaling’ and ‘change management’ that flood expanding companies…
Incorporating Design Thinking into Lean Agile Sprints
It’s too easy to drop the learning aspect from Agile when the default is to build. We believe in the value of design thinking principles, and our innovation partners benefit from the quick wins that come out of slowing down once in awhile. Here’s how we do it.
Why We Care So Much About Sprint Commitments (and we hope you will too)
Sometimes, clients even say “but I don’t care about the commitment.” Firstly, I question whether that is true deep down. It’s hard for me to imagine someone paying a significant amount of money to have a problem solved,and then not caring when that solution ships, or even which parts of the solution ship in which order.
Optimizing Feedback Loops for Iterative Agile Development
The team that seeks out feedback and views it as an asset rather than a slap in the face is the team that delivers real value to clients.