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Failing Fast: the Impact of Bias When Speeding up Application Security

This article deals with three biases people can have with establishing application security while trying to move fast in building them, attitude which can cost the organization later, showing how to spot the biases, and providing advice on what to do about them.

Laura Bell
on Nov 08, 2021
Culture & Methods

Techstinction - How Technology Use is Having a Severe Impact on our Climate and What We Can Do

Most people don’t realise how their use of technology, both socially and in the workplace, is responsible for an increasingly significant volume of the world's Co2 emissions. In this article, you will learn how our use of technology is having a severe impact on our climate and what we can do about it.

Barry Chandler
on Oct 29, 2021
Culture & Methods

People, Not Screens: Why Soul-Based Leadership Will Change the Nature of Remote and Hybrid Work

Virtual, remote, or hybrid work is the main leadership challenge of our time. Leaders should focus on bringing out humaneness and people's desire to be seen and heard in respectful and appreciative ways. Soul-based leadership is built on neuroscience and other ways of knowing inspired by eastern philosophies in which aliveness is at the heart of awareness, stillness and calm.

Karen Sobel Lojeski
on Oct 25, 2021
DevOps

Application Security Manager: Developer or Security Officer?

The role of the Application Security Manager (ASM) should be the driving force of the overall code review process. An ASM should know about development processes, information security principles, and have solid technical skills. To get a good ASM you can either use experts from a service provider or grow an in-house professional from developers or security specialists.

Daniil Chernov
on Oct 20, 2021
Architecture & Design

How to Not Lose Your Job to Low-Code Software

The uptake of low code software is so strong that it will almost certainly make its way into your organization. Most software engineers shouldn’t be concerned about this because they are good at the things that low code software is not yet good at. The key to surviving and thriving during this change is ensuring that your role encompasses responsibilities that low code can’t yet do.

Doug Hudgeon
on Oct 12, 2021
Culture & Methods

Essential Soft Skills for IT leaders in a Remote World

Leading teams is always challenging, especially when your team is remote; it requires more effort and more skills to be developed. This article describes the skills needed if you would like to become not just a good team leader, but a great one. To start, here are three essential soft skills: be vulnerable and authentic, build a collaborative and safe environment, and provide candid feedback.

Anastasiia Tymoshchuk
on Sep 14, 2021
Culture & Methods

Applying Genetic Engineering to Your Organization Culture

Common barriers to transformation value remain people, mindset, and organizational culture; they are so significant that they can halt any transformation from achieving meaningful delivery capabilities. Behavioral mechanisms can work as a sophisticated DNA blueprint that directs actions. This article explores mechanisms for DNA manipulation to apply the concepts in the organizational environment.

Liat Palace
on Sep 02, 2021
Culture & Methods

Break the Cycle of Yesterday's Logic in Organizational Change and Agile Adoption

Change in most organizations today seems to be locked in the paradigm of yesterday’s logic – repeating the same top-down, command driven approaches that consistently fail to achieve the expected benefits. The environment today requires new approaches drawing on concepts from modern management approaches. This article introduces a number of ideas and approaches to break out of the old paradigm.

Roland Konrad Kobald
on Aug 21, 2021
DevOps

Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management

In a digital economy, VSM improved software deliveries support the businesses' other value stream improvement initiatives. In its modern reinvention, VSM software tools provide end-to-end and real-time access to data and analytical tools to help improve Flow across CI/CD and DevOps software delivery pipelines.

Gary Rupp
on Aug 17, 2021
Development

The Excel Formula Language Is Now Turing-Complete

The Excel team announced LAMBDA, a new feature that lets users define and name formula functions. LAMBDA functions admit parameters, can call other LAMBDA functions and recursively call themselves. With LAMBDA, the Excel formula language is Turing-complete: user-defined functions can thus compute anything without resorting to imperative languages (e.g., VBA, JavaScript).

Bruno Couriol
on Aug 02, 2021
Culture & Methods

Outcome Mapping - How to Collaborate with Clarity

To truly improve, organizations need to deliver change to people, process, and tools. To make change effective, they need to identify where that change is needed, what the map of their current state looks like, and what is the best next step to make progress. Outcome mapping helps align teams to a clear goal, gain an understanding of the landscape, and develop a clear plan of action.

Steve Pereira
on Jul 23, 2021
Culture & Methods

Moving into "Modern Test Leadership"

Test management is dead; it just really needs to evolve. Test Leadership means focusing more on raising the awareness of testing across an organisation, and coaching/mentoring your team to be passionate advocates for quality. As a test leader, you need to learn to adapt to remain relevant, take time to self-reflect on what is important to you, and build personal leadership values.

Simon Prior
on Jul 20, 2021

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