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Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

CIO

As a result, many new car companies are created and competition increases, says Tobias Altehed, who leads Volvo Cars’ digital organization and sits on the company’s extended management team. We need to take greater responsibility for the development of our digital products and not act as an internal supplier to our business.”

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Agile Retrospectives

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

The goal of this post is to give teams a solid introduction on how to have not-sucky Sprint Retrospectives. Retrospectives are explicitly part of Scrum – “ The Sprint Retrospective is an opportunity for the Scrum Team to inspect itself and create a plan for improvements to be enacted during the next Sprint.” It’s Not a Post-Mortem.

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

CIO

Feed in your entire Slack or Teams history and you may end up with responses like, “I’ll work on that tomorrow,” which would be perfectly appropriate from human employees but aren’t what you expect from a gen AI system. But it was. What it’s doing is surfacing your lack of governance around your data.

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A small open-source story

Marcusoft

Back in 2010, I was very interested in BDD (Behaviour-driven Development) as a stepping stone into agile testing-thinking as a general great tool to foster better conversations. They sent a consultant to our team to see if we could make use of it. In fact, I’m probably a good example of a bad maintainer.

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Attending Oracle’s CodeOne? Here Are 15 Sessions Everyone Will Be Talking About

OverOps

DevOps and Agile Methodology: Lessons Learned [PRO3964]. Is Boilerplate Code Really So Bad? Venkat Subramaniam , President, Agile Developer, Inc. No matter how quickly or slowly code moves through development or how diligent your testing is, some issues will only surface in production when real data is involved.

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The End of Enterprise IT

LeanEssays

Two years ago, the employees at ING Netherlands headquarters – over 3,000 people from marketing, product management, channel management, and IT development – were told that their jobs had disappeared. Instead they would trust empowered teams, informal networks, and “output steering” (responding to feedback) to move the bank forward.

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Fundamentals of Data Engineering

Xebia

The data engineer is also expected to create agile data architectures that evolve as new trends emerge. Understand the cultural foundations of Agile, DevOps, and DataOps. Nevertheless, the low-level implementation of the early days, circa 2000 – 2010, has been abstracted away. This abstraction continues today.