Worked at a web property that took scrum, used it and found it lacking in certain cases for development. They Extend it And called the new creation beyond scrum, abbreviated as BS snickers.
Unrelated to the shortcomings
we found that Scrumm with the timeboxing concept did not work for infrastructure teams.
You cannot just time box most Infrastructure task and just ship whatever you have when you exceeded your initially planned timeframe.
We came up with Kanban as a way to document progress. The swimming lanes together with a limit on things that can be simultaneously in flight served to mirror reality as an operational team much better than pure Scrum.
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If the person on the phone had said “Capone, Al” instead of “Uh…” he’d possibly not gone to jail.
Even ill gotten gains are taxable and the theory of one crime at a time suggests that even “other, unspecified” could be with paying taxes on to reduce the likelyhood of successful criminal persecution.
There are reasons for tools like https://github.com/ixs/kvm-cli. It seems like every operations team built their own version that logs into the web interfaces, downloads the java stuff and then runs it locally...
I was just fiddling around with a SuperMicro X8 IPMI the other day. The X8 IPMI stuff is terrible, e.g. the warning that your Java installation is outdated on opening the website etc.
Turns out, you can actually install X9 IPMI firmware on X8 boards as the platform files are still shipped.
Might be worth checking out, if this improves things for you. It did for me.
Check out https://github.com/devicenull/ipmi_firmware_tools for unpacking (and repacking) the SuperMicro firmware. The developer just merged my patches making it work with some of the X8 boards.
As long as your board is listed in /etc/defaults of the IPMI tree you should be good.
Unrelated to the shortcomings we found that Scrumm with the timeboxing concept did not work for infrastructure teams. You cannot just time box most Infrastructure task and just ship whatever you have when you exceeded your initially planned timeframe.
We came up with Kanban as a way to document progress. The swimming lanes together with a limit on things that can be simultaneously in flight served to mirror reality as an operational team much better than pure Scrum.