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Who is in Charge of Quality in Software Development
As silos break down, the whole team is responsible for quality in software development. As process more and more defines people and processes, how can you strive for better quality of releases?
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Test Automation in the World of AI & ML
An in-depth look at the criteria & requirements for Functional Test Automation in the agile world, and the capabilities you should build in your custom framework, or should exist the tools you choose. Anand Bagmar explores aspects like readability, reuse, debugging / rca, CI, Test Data, Parallel Execution, integration with other tools & libraries, free Vs open-source and support.
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Is 2019 the Year Agile Transformation Will Finally Work?
Dave West talks about what Agile adoption and Agile Transformations may look like in 2019, considering factors like the economy, the role of management, the importance of organizations being people centric and how value streams should be inclusive of all elements to deliver value
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Author Q&A on the Book Product Takeoff
In their book Product Liftoff Kamal and Nav explore through examples, stories and practical exercises what it takes to bring a new product from concept to launch, and beyond. They provide tools and techniques that teams and individuals can use to help guide product development and ensure they are solving the right problem, building the right product which addresses real customer needs.
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Observability-Driven Development for Tackling the Great Unknown
How does observability-driven development differ from monitoring? As our distributed systems become increasingly more complicated and as our silos break down for DevOps testing, automation, and efficiency, ODD arises as a superset of monitoring to understand your code’s unknown unknowns. Includes insights from Honeycomb Founder Charity Majors.
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Success or Burnout? Q&A on How Personal Agility Can Help
How can you find out if you’re being successful or heading for a burnout? The only person who can really answer that question is you. A Q&A with Peter Stevens and Maria Matarelli who spoke about success or burnout and personal agility at eXperience Agile 2018.
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Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report - January 2019
An overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the “architecture and design” (A&D) topic evolving in 2019, which focuses on fundamental architectural patterns, framework usage, and design skills.
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Evidence-Based Management Guide - Updated
The Evidence-Based Management Guide provides a framework for organizations to measure, manage, and increase the value they derive from their product delivery. The updated version includes a new key value area called Unrealized Value and provides example measures that organizations can use to find their own measures that fit their context.
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Why Do We Need Architectural Diagrams?
Software architecture diagrams, when created well, and sparingly, can greatly improve communication within the development team and with external stakeholders. They require an understanding of the intended audience, and thoughtful restraint on what to include. Resist the temptation to think that diagrams are unnecessary or unhelpful, simply because there have been plenty of cases of bad diagrams.
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Hiring and Retaining Developers - Creating Great Teams
Hiring developers is one of the biggest challenges the tech industry is facing. This post shows the latest hiring trends and provides some actionable tips to overcome these challenges by covering the most effective hiring methods and how to effectively retain developers. The post also shows how top performing teams motivate developers.
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Q&A on the Book Refactoring - Second Edition
The book Refactoring - Second Edition by Martin Fowler explores how you can improve the design and quality of your code in small steps, without changing external behavior. It consists of around seventy detailed descriptions of refactorings, including a motivation for doing them, the mechanics, and an example.
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Successful Teams: How Leaders Build Their Tech Companies
The first rule of success when starting a company is having a great team. This could be achieved by assuring both great leadership and a great hiring process. This could happen through following best recruitment practices, looking for employees with a can-do attitude, creating a unique company story, establishing a meaningful culture and enhancing a CEO’s skills.