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Onshore-Offshore Handoff Rituals That Actually Work
A practical playbook for structuring handoffs between onshore and offshore teams. Documentation, demo cadence, and overlap windows that work.
The Sprint Demo Checklist: Making Every Demo Count
Transform sprint demos from status updates to stakeholder alignment sessions. Preparation, presentation, and follow-up frameworks.
Velocity vs. Predictability: Which Matters More?
Most teams obsess over velocity. But predictability is what builds trust. How to measure and improve both metrics in your pods.
Definition of Done Templates for Cloud, AI, DevOps, and QA
Copy-paste Definition of Done checklists for different pod types. Code review, testing, documentation, and deployment criteria.
Ramping Pods in Weeks, Not Months
The 3-week onboarding framework: discovery, sprint 0, and first production delivery. Templates and checklists included.
The Incident MTTR Playbook: From Alert to Resolution
Step-by-step guide to reducing Mean Time to Restore. Runbooks, escalation paths, blameless postmortems, and automation opportunities.
Kubernetes Production Checklist: Deploy with Confidence
Complete production readiness checklist for Kubernetes deployments. Security, monitoring, scaling, and disaster recovery.
Building Production ML Model Deployment Pipelines
End-to-end guide to deploying machine learning models in production. From training to monitoring and A/B testing.
Test Automation Strategy: From Unit to E2E
Build a comprehensive test automation strategy. Test pyramid, tool selection, and maintaining test suites at scale.
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