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Lean Software Development: The Backstory

LeanEssays

The second book summarizes the essence of lean product development this way: Understand that knowledge creation is the essential work of product development. Charter a team of responsible experts led by an entrepreneurial system designer. Manage product development using the principles of cadence, flow, and pull.

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How to Screen and Interview Fintech Data Engineer

Mobilunity

Core Skills and Technical Expertise A data engineer Fintech should possess a strong foundation in both technical skills: Programming Languages: Proficiency in Python and Java is often essential, as these languages are commonly used by fintech back-end software developers for developing data processing and analytics applications.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

See How Google Tests Software , [7] by James Whittaker, Jason Arbon, and Jeff Carollo for more information. The Lean Approach to Software It’s hard to count the many times that someone told me “software development is not like manufacturing.” A production view of software development is fundamentally flawed.

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Don’t Separate Design from Implementation

LeanEssays

If detailed requirements are actually design, if features and functions are design, if stories are design, then perhaps we should re-think who is responsible for this design. All too often, detailed requirements lists and backlogs of stories are actually bad system design done by amateurs.

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Friction

LeanEssays

In fact, when software development is done right, speed, quality and low cost are fully compatible. Hundreds of enterprises, including Amazon and Google (whose systems manage billions of dollars of revenue every month), have demonstrated that the safest approach to software development is automated, it is adaptive, and it is fast.

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Where Programming, Ops, AI, and the Cloud are Headed in 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

A backlash is only to be expected when deep learning applications are used to justify arresting the wrong people , and when some police departments are comfortable using software with a 98% false positive rate. A backlash is only to be expected when software developers don’t take into account issues of power and abuse.