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9 tips for achieving IT service delivery excellence

CIO

IT service delivery enables an organization to give end users access to essential IT services by designing, developing, and deploying key technology resources, including applications and data. Develop a structured service catalog and adapt Achieving service delivery excellence is not a one-size-fits-all process.

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Quality Assurance outsourcing in the World of DevOps-Best Practices for Dispersed (Distributed) Quality Assurance Team

Trigent

With outsourced QA being expedited through teams distributed across geographies and locations, many aspects that were hitherto guaranteed through co-located teams have now come under a lot of pressure. Best practices for ensuring the effectiveness of distributed QA teams. The challenge is to find the right skill mix.

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Cross-functional Team: Composition, Benefits, and Good Practices

Existek

Have you thought about the concept of a cross-functional team? What differentiates it from setting up traditional teams? How can it improve the software development process? In this article, we’ll discuss the characteristics of a cross-functional team, the benefits of having one, and how to build and manage such a team.

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Outsourcing QA in the world of DevOps – Best Practices for Dispersed (Distributed) QA teams

Trigent

DevOps is the preferred methodology for software development and release, with collaborating teams oriented towards faster delivery cycles augmented by early feedback. Outlined below some of the best practices for ensuring the effectiveness of distributed QA teams for an efficient DevOps process.

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QA Engineering Roles: Skills, Tools, and Responsibilities in a Testing Team

Altexsoft

The quality assurance engineer is vital to every tech product release. Depending on team size and structure, QA is viewed and utilized differently, but tailored to specific organization needs. Other variations of QA-related job offerings are QA analyst, QA engineer, automation engineer, test automation developer, etc.

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Book review: Escaping the Build Trap by Melissa Perri

Wolk Software Engineering

I’m a software engineer, not a product manager, product designer or product owner. However, the book is appealing to me because I find very interesting learning about why some companies and teams fail while others are incredibly successful. in Operations Research and Information Engineering.

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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Whole Team. The Hole Team. Hi, I’m your Scrum Master,” she says.