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Q&A on the Book Agile Enterprise
In the book Agile Enterprise, Mario Moreira explores the end-to-end and top-to-bottom view needed to run an effective agile enterprise, focusing on the needs of customers and employees. He explains how cutting-edge and innovative concepts and practices can be incorporated into a robust agile and customer value-driven framework.
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Security Implications of Permission Models in Smart-Home Application Frameworks
This article presents an analysis of a popular smart-home programming framework, SmartThings, which reveals that many smart-home apps are automatically overprivileged, leaving users at risk for remote attacks that can cause physical, financial, and psychological harm.
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Q&A on the Book It's All Upside Down
In the book It's all Upside Down, Paul McMahon provides stories from software development teams supported by upside down principles and coaching tips for applying them. He explains how you can use Essence to improve processes leading to better organizational performance.
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Actionable Analytics for Lean Project Management
Measuring the right KPIs of your workflow is the key for implementing successful Lean project management. Applying these actionable analytics is going to help you track your team's progress towards reaching process perfection, allow you to project future performance and help you spot potential problems in an early stage.
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Key Abstractions for IoT-Oriented Software Engineering
This article provides an overview of the key general characteristics of complex IoT systems and applications. Based on them, the author identifies the software abstractions that could provide the basis for IoT-oriented software engineering, including stakeholders and users, requirements, avatars, and coalitions.
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Benchmarks Don't Have to Die
Are tracing and profiling the future of performance engineering outside of the fast-moving JavaScript community? Do all benchmarks have a shelf-life? In this article, Matt Fleming talks about benchmarks and what keeps the good ones alive and why others die. By adapting benchmarks, they can live forever.
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Continuous Delivery with Kubernetes the Hard Way
Automating continuous delivery with Kubernetes requires a Single-Source-Of-Truth, and that rollbacks can be implemented efficiently without requiring new code changes to be pushed.
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Q&A on the Book Timing Is Almost Everything
Executives can and should get involved with the way that software is being developed. In his book Timing is Almost Everything, Roland Racko shows how you can increase software success by using a "management by query" executive style in the early stages of software development initiatives to influence how teams think and behave.
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A Roadmap to the Programmable World
The emergence of millions of remotely programmable devices in our surroundings will pose significant challenges for software developers. This article proposes a roadmap from today’s cloud-centric, data-centric Internet of Things systems to the Programmable World highlights those challenges that haven’t received enough attention yet.
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How to Communicate Better in Distributed Teams
In this article, Hugo, Arjan and Savita explain how their distributed agile framework can help distributed teams communicate better. Based on over a decade of experience, they share actionable practices that can help you improve the communication with team members across the world. Topics covered are virtues, trust, communication rhythm, retrospectives for distributed teams.
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Introducing Sock Shop: A Cloud Native Reference Application
This article describes Sock Shop, a fully containerized, microservice architecture, cloud native reference application developed by Weaveworks.
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Are Unit Tests Part of Your Team’s Performance Reviews?
No matter how often you conduct performance reviews, there is no doubt unit testing should be one of the metrics measured. Eli Lopian explains what makes a good unit test and how to measure them to ensure your development team is truly agile.