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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. Cargo Cult Agile. The Hole Team. Second Edition cover.

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The Good and the Bad of Selenium Test Automation Tool

Altexsoft

In the early 2000s, a company called Mercury Interactive ruled the test automation world with Astra Quick Test, its tool. For instance, you could only run tests on Windows computers, only a small number of browser versions were supported, and you had to use a single language to write scripts – VBScript.

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CIO 100 Award winners prove the transformative value of IT

CIO

So, the CarMax technology and content teams recognized the need to create a new system that could produce updated vehicle information and analyze and summarize customer reviews at scale. In partnership with OpenAI and Microsoft, CarMax worked to develop, test, and iterate GPT-3 natural language models aimed at achieving those results.

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Data's day of reckoning

O'Reilly Media - Data

Chemists and biologists have had to address the use of their research for chemical and biological weapons. Security is usually taught as an elective, isolated from other classes about software development. Security as an afterthought doesn’t work in product development; why do we expect it to work in education?

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Method, Part II

The Agile Manager

The principal framework is an article by Cliff Jacobson describing the change in method that impacted camping and outdoor activity starting in the 1950s, drawing comparisons to changes in method in software development. When we think of method in software, we generally think big: "Agile versus Waterfall". Plus ça change. * * * Method.

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Knowledge Versus Wage Work in Software Development

The Agile Manager

Of course, in software development, we often see highly skilled, abstract thinkers in the secondary labor market and lower skilled, concrete thinkers in the primary. There have been many attempts to create large, lesser-skilled, secondary labor forces that supplement a core primary one in software development.

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The One Constant with Don Gray

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest Don Gray enlighten listeners regarding the world of software development, the reasons for implementing software changes and why it’s not as easy as people may think. Software development is not linear and not deterministic. Show Notes. Change is complex. Transcript.