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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Ensuring secure and reliable software requires innovation. But to ensure innovation can happen, organizations need to build cultures of openness, collaboration, and risk-taking. Psychological safety refers to a shared belief within a group or organization that it is safe to take interpersonal risks, such as speaking up, sharing ideas, or expressing concerns, without fear of negative consequences, ridicule, or punishment.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In the modern software landscape, security can’t be an afterthought. Unfortunately, it often still is. A growing number of organizations we help at Coveros are looking to weave security into the entire development process to prevent vulnerabilities and potential disasters, but aren’t sure which tools and strategies to use. This is where GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) can be a game-changer.

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Coveros

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The security of your software supply chain is vital to ensuring application security. But far too many organizations do not have a comprehensive understanding of where critical components of their software delivery come from – or misunderstand it completely. For nine straight years, Sonatype’s State of Software Supply Chain Security Report has analyzed the challenges associated with protecting your software supply chain from attack and has provided advice and guidance on improving it.

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Coveros

JANUARY 31, 2024

“Any organization that designs a system will inevitably produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure.” – Melvin Conway Conway’s Law is a principle in software engineering and organizational theory that suggests that the structure of a software system is inherently tied to the communication structures of the organization that develops it.

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Coveros

JANUARY 24, 2024

When I ask clients, colleagues, and fellow software leaders about the biggest challenges they’re facing, a few trends stand out: Organizations are looking to enhance collaboration among individual team members and between teams. Leaders are looking to streamline workflows to enhance efficiency. Teams are still figuring out how to make security a priority in their workflow.

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Coveros

JANUARY 17, 2024

Get ready to hear something obvious: We live in uncertain times, especially in the software community. The emergence of AI and other disruptive technologies. Economic unpredictability. A shifting industry landscape and job market. It’s more important than ever for software organizations to stay relevant and innovative. So how can your team stay ahead of this rapidly shifting curve?

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JANUARY 8, 2024

A new year means a new set of challenges for software leaders, developers, and testers. It also means new opportunities to take advantage of exciting emerging technologies and approaches. At Coveros, we’re particularly interested in better understanding the emergence of some crucial trends that have the potential to transform our industry. Here are a few that we’re exploring and that we’re consistently asked about in our work: The rise of low-code/no-code platforms AI-assisted software developme

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JANUARY 5, 2024

A new year provides a critical opportunity to reflect and regroup. For software leaders, it also represents the perfect time to set a guiding system for your organization and your projects. One way to ensure all members of your organization are on the same page is through a clear, concise vision statement. A vision statement is a description of the future state of the solution under development.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

While business agility and efficiency is still a critical goal of most organizations, many are hamstrung by legacy organizational structure and management practices. So how can organizations continue to evolve and deliver better agility and efficiency? In a recent conversation, agile experts Sanjiv Augustine, CEO of LitheSpeed, and Jeff Payne, CEO of Coveros, discussed new ways of thinking about agile in the context of business.

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JULY 31, 2023

What will be the impact of AI? It’s a question being asked in nearly every industry and every walk of life. In the software community, the emergence of AI has stoked thoughts of both possibility and concern about its impact. For software testers, the critical questions swirling around AI are “What is the future of testing in a world of AI? Will testers become obsolete?

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Coveros

JUNE 26, 2023

One of the biggest challenges facing software leaders is understanding where to prioritize limited resources and team members’ attention in order to make the biggest impact possible. A key piece of that prioritization relies on leaders’ ability to identify areas of improvement in their organization. At this year’s STAREAST 2023 testing conference in Orlando, Florida, our team from Coveros invited leaders from throughout the software testing, agile, DevOps, and security communities to identify wh

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Coveros

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

You have a Kubernetes cluster, now what? Kubernetes has become the leading standard for container orchestration platforms. Most of you already have a cluster running somewhere that a development team uses. But, growing beyond that towards greater adoption and supporting multiple development teams can be challenging. Management of cluster resources and user access are two areas that can quickly become a bottleneck to further adoption or lead to collisions between teams.

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Coveros

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

When you think of agile servant leadership, what ideals come to mind? Openness? Empathy? Support? These are just some of the critical attributes of an effective servant leader. By definition, these leaders value putting their teams, groups, and organizations first. Unfortunately, all too often this focus on the team leaves someone important out of the equation: the leaders themselves.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

In today’s interconnected world, securing our applications and digital assets has never been more important. As hackers and cybercriminals become more sophisticated in their tactics, it is crucial that we take steps to protect our systems from potential attacks. As we enter 2023, it’s a good time to reflect back on 2022’s key security trends, events, and milestones: What major events occurred?

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Coveros

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Some of us thrive when working in a remote setting where we can focus exclusively on the task at hand. Others excel when working alongside and collaborating with coworkers in an office. Different settings help energize us so that we can be most effective as individuals and as employees. Throughout my career, I have enjoyed working in an office full time and, also, part-time under a hybrid model.

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Coveros

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Some of us thrive when working in a remote setting where we can focus exclusively on the task at hand. Others excel when working alongside and collaborating with coworkers in an office. Different settings help energize us so that we can be most effective as individuals and as employees. Throughout my career, I have enjoyed working in an office full time and, also, part-time under a hybrid model.

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Coveros

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

It is great to be back in Orlando, FL this week at the Agile + DevOps East Conference! We’re also pleased to announce our new secure software supply chain management service—powered by the Tidelift Subscription. Open source is an amazing resource and it is nearly impossible for organizations to build applications in 2022 without using it extensively.

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Coveros

DECEMBER 9, 2021

There is no standard set of metrics that can be tracked to ensure project success. Agile teams should track a small set of agile software quality metrics initially and then adjust those metrics over time as they learn which are informative and aid with decision-making. It is recommended that agile teams initially track three metrics: test coverage, change failure rate, and deployment frequency.

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Coveros

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In 15 years of technical recruiting, I have spoken to thousands of candidates. One of my favorite parts of an interview is learning what a candidate seeks in an ideal career opportunity. Often, I speak to individuals who value training and prioritize continuous learning. Technology changes rapidly and technologists seek to understand trends and apply them in their work.

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Coveros

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

As part of our ongoing series of web seminars , CEO Jeffery Payne and Principal Consultant Rich Mills held a discussion about containers and the various ways you can leverage them to improve your software development, test, and deployment process. During the conversation, they two discussed how modern organizations use containers in the development lifecycle, how containers support a ‘shift left’ philosophy for software testing and application security, and how containers can be used to continuo

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Coveros

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Chef is a powerful suite of tools and applications that can minimize manual management of your virtual machines’ software and configuration. It has a wide variety of configuration options for many platforms that can be handled using Chef Infra and its client component. Managing Software Deployments. The Chef Infra Client is essential for managing software deployments.

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Coveros

OCTOBER 8, 2021

What is Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and why should I care about it? If you’ve been following the software testing market you may have heard of Robotic Process Automation (RPA). This is a technique for interacting with applications, be they for web, desktop, or mobile, while writing no or minimal code to specify those interactions. While RPA can be used to automate any business process (e.g., populating a list of data into the same form), it is often used for test automation, as it is promot

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Coveros

OCTOBER 1, 2021

THIS ARTICLE WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON TECHBEACON as “Microservices quality issues? A modern DevOps approach can help” Your team has followed industry trends and shifted from a monolithic system to a widely distributed, scalable, and highly available microservices architecture. But instead of solving all the problems with your fragile legacy architecture, you ended up with a set of federated services that have hidden dependencies maintained by teams that don’t talk to each ot

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Coveros

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Coveros Technical Manager Bob Foster’s Lightning Keynote from Agile + DevOps Virtual Conference 2021. See and hear more about what our team has to say about DevOps on our YouTube channel. The post The Similarities Between Releasing a Successful Product and Being a Successful Lacrosse Coach appeared first on Coveros.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Everything You Need to Know About Containers But Were Afraid to Ask. Tuesday, October 26, 2021 1:30pm-2:30pm ET / 10:30am-11:30am PT. Join CEO Jeffery Payne and container expert Richard Mills, DevOps Architect , as they explore what containers are all about and the various ways you can leverage them to improve your software development, test, and deployment process.

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Coveros

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This series of posts will explore my perspective on risk as a metric and a measure in software testing. First up: The Math of Risk. My Perspective. There’s a common misconception when it comes to risk that it cannot be used, measured, or understood, and that if it can be measured, the measurement lacks credibility or clear definition. I have a fundamental disagreement with this assumption, as I feel risk is foundational to testing and software development in general.

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Coveros

AUGUST 31, 2021

Are you trying to shift from a monolithic system to a widely distributed, scalable, and highly available microservices architecture? Maybe you’ve already moved to agile delivery models, but you’re struggling to keep up with the rate of change in the technologies of these systems. Meanwhile, your DevOps team has thrown a bunch of automation in place to help, but it seems to be creating a bigger, different mess that results in broken systems that don’t work together.

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Coveros

AUGUST 10, 2021

I recently wrote a blog post suggesting that one way to ensure nothing happens as the result of a retrospective is to neglect to capture action items. My colleague and friend Byron Katz offered up a response that suggested a lack of retrospective action is not the problem to be solved, rather it is a symptom of larger problems that won’t be fixed in a retrospective. .

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Coveros

JULY 23, 2021

As part of our ongoing series of web seminars , CEO Jeffery Payne hosted application security pioneer Jeff Williams, the co-founder of OWASP and the current CTO of Contrast Security, on July 15, 2021, for a discussion about software supply chain attacks. During the conversation, they two discussed how software supply chains are similar to and different from other types of supply chains, how the target components in the most recent software supply chain attacks have evolved, and how producers and

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JULY 8, 2021

Introduction. Keycloak is an open source Identity and Access Management solution, which allows teams to easily secure their applications and services. Administrative tasks such as creating realms, clients, and users within Keycloak can be automated using the Keycloak Operator. The Operator is based off of the Operator SDK and follows the Kubernetes Operator pattern.

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Coveros

JUNE 24, 2021

If you’ve had the opportunity to work for more than one organization, you’ve probably come across a situation in which IV&V is part of the organization’s process for developing software. IV&V, or Independent Verification and Validation, is an approach to testing in which a team that was not involved with the development of a solution both verifies and validates the functionality provided by that solution.

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JUNE 18, 2021

I disagree with the premise of my esteemed colleague’s thoughtful essay about renewing the focus on creating and handling action items from retrospectives. . Let me be clear about my specific disagreement. While I do agree with him on the value of action items, I believe that the lack of action items, and the lack of execution on them, is a symptom, rather than a cause, of a deeper and crucial problem.

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Coveros

MAY 27, 2021

Every agile coach and agile book worth its salt will preach the benefits of holding regular retrospectives. Most teams I work with do their best to hold them, but many claim they just don’t work. They say this important agile ceremony often turns into a finger-pointing session, or perhaps worse, a meeting where everyone celebrates a job well done while ignoring issues that are holding the team back from being even better.

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Coveros

MAY 25, 2021

CEO Jeff Payne discusses best practices for protecting your software delivery process from supply chain attacks with Business Development Manager Kim Trott. Kim Trott: Good day everyone. Today we’re going to be talking about software supply chain attacks with Coveros founder and CEO Jeff Payne. Jeff has been in the application security industry for nearly 30 years and is a recognized leader in application security and DevSecOps.

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MAY 14, 2021

The Agile Manifesto turned 20 earlier this year, and many are celebrating. But from a testing perspective, should we be celebrating agile? Join long-time testing experts Jeffery Payne, Johanna Rothman, and Robert Sabourin as they debate whether agile has helped or hurt testing in our next web seminar. Thursday, May 27, 2021 1:30pm-2:30pm ET / 10:30am-11:30am PT.

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APRIL 29, 2021

As an Agile Coach, Scrum Master, and instructor, I meet and interact with many people who have used Value Stream Mapping to successfully transform product and service delivery by focusing on value delivery to their customers and eliminating waste in delivering that value. Unfortunately, I often hear from people who have attempted to use Value Stream Mapping and have failed.

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MARCH 18, 2021

As part of our ongoing series of web seminars , CEO Jeffery Payne hosted AWS Enterprise Strategist and author Mark Schwartz on March 4, 2021, for a discussion about creating a lean, learning, and enabling bureaucracy using agile and DevOps methods. During the conversation, they two discussed Mark’s new book, The Delicate Art of Bureaucracy , and how common agile and DevOps methods can be used to make organizations lean, enabling, and open to change.

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