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Mending the rift between business stakeholders and development teams

Xebia

In today’s business world, the synergy between stakeholders, product management and development teams are paramount. Customer’s problem At one of our major clients at Xebia customers complained, that the project velocity was inconsistent, while the development team seemed perpetually busy.

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The Good and the Bad of React Native App Development

Altexsoft

In this article, we’ll explore other advantages of the framework, point out some of its pitfalls, and make a brief comparison with other technologies for cross-platform development. React Native is one of the most wanted open-source frameworks, that enables developers to write an app in JavaScript and render it with native UI elements.

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5 Tips for Successfully Implementing Behavior-Driven Development in Your Team

Gorilla Logic

Have you ever been part of a team where tickets are hard to understand or don’t supply enough detail for the team to properly work? Experiences like these make many developers think about using Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). Know your team members You work with your team every day and know them well.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: 3 key hiring metrics, building SDR teams, insurtech investor survey

TechCrunch

The expense involved in recruiting, training and onboarding a new employee who turns out to be a poor fit could be equivalent to 50% of that person’s first-year salary. “Pipeline generation at early-stage companies is expensive and time consuming, often more so than the sales process itself.

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Developer Experience at Netlify

Netlify

I was 8 years into my career as a Software Engineer before I heard the term “Developer Advocacy.” Combining teaching and development sounded like a nice way to progress beyond the coding or engineering management work I was doing at the time. As such, when I joined Netlify, the team and I worked to alter our composition and strategy.

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AoAD2 Practice: Stakeholder Demos

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. Stakeholder Demos. Product Managers, Whole Team. The Demo Cadence.

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What Do Developers Need to Know About Kubernetes, Anyway?

Honeycomb

You sip your coffee as you wrap up some documentation when a ping in the ops channel catches your eye—a sales engineer is complaining that the demo environment is slow. Kubernetes offers developers an appealing story—that it can do most of the heavy lifting associated with running a distributed application.