Erik Bernhardsson

APRIL 4, 2022

Hi! It's your friendly project management theorician. You might remember me from blog posts such as Why software projects take longer than you think , which is a blog post I wrote a long time ago positing that software projects completion time follow a log-normal distribution. Just a bit of a refresher if you don't want to re-read that whole post. What does it mean that project completion time has a log-normal distribution?

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DevOps.com

APRIL 4, 2022

Delivering software quickly, reliably and safely is at the heart of technology transformation and organizational performance regardless of industry. As part of overall technology transformation, many companies are recognizing the benefits of applying DevOps methodologies to areas outside of software development, such as general product development, IT expansion and scaling and new business processes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

SmartHop, a startup that uses AI to help interstate truckers make their routes more efficient and lucrative by removing administrative headaches, just raised a $30 million Series B financing round, bringing the company’s total funding to $46 million following a $12 million Series A last year. The startup’s main offering is its smart dispatch service, which recommends loads to truck drivers that optimize profits and travel time based on their truck capacity, what cities they’re

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CIO

APRIL 5, 2022

Stay up-to-date with the latest UK CIO and senior IT executive appointments with our revamped and relaunched UK Movers & Shakers noticeboard. The world of the UK CIO is a dynamic one. It’s not unusual to find tech leaders seeking new and challenging roles to which they can bring their experience and digital transformation vision to fruition. Here, we bring you all the relevant announcements from the movers and shakers of the CIO UK community.

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Agile Alliance

APRIL 4, 2022

Stop using data as a weapon against your own people!! We’ve all heard at conferences, at meetups, and in books how important it is to collect data and make data-driven decisions. The post Stop Assessing People! first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Lightning Labs is building infrastructure that would enable users to send money across the world almost instantaneously and at a low cost through the Bitcoin network. The company just raised funding to support a protocol it has built called Taro, which would allow stablecoins to be transferred on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, Decrypt first reported.

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DevOps.com

APRIL 5, 2022

Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) has become a hallmark of quick software release life cycles. Nowadays, many teams support CI/CD pipelines for their software, offering a repeatable pathway to build, test and deploy code. A CI/CD pipeline is necessary to support an iterative, rapid deployment approach—yet, maintaining one is not an easy task.

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Agile Alliance

APRIL 7, 2022

Mainframes, like Mark Twain, may well say, "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." Mainframe systems have always been around, quietly processing 80% or more of financial transactions worldwide while people's attention was focused on colorful and innovative front-ends. Now mainframes are enjoying a resurgence. The post Test-Driven Development in Cobol first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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CEO Insider

APRIL 4, 2022

Storytelling, arguably, is one of the top skills leaders need to employ. It’s far beyond creative thinking and writing. It is a strategy and a tool to recruit and retain top talent, build empathetic leaders, build internal thought leaders and ambassadors and engage all constituencies. When storytelling is woven throughout the entire organization, it becomes […].

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Shifting consumer buying behaviors means brands can’t only rely on selling via one channel anymore. For e-commerce and traditional retailers looking at new ways to connect and engage with consumers, Lucky believes its approach enables them to work together to not only achieve that goal, but give consumers a better shopping experience. The one-year-old company was founded by Sneh Parmar, who has a background in consumer purchasing behavior, and Nafis Azad, whose background is in software UX and p

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DevOps.com

APRIL 8, 2022

DevSecOps is everywhere, and chances are your organization is shifting toward this convergence of development, security and operations. In an on-premises environment, you build your own DevSecOps process by mixing and matching existing and new tools. However, in the cloud, much of the environment is determined by your cloud provider. Microsoft’s Azure cloud is known […].

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Agile Alliance

APRIL 8, 2022

Twenty years have already passed since the Agile Manifesto and we need to start discussing where Agile is going to have an impact in the next 20 years. The post The future of Agile in the next 20 years first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Dataiku

APRIL 8, 2022

MLOps is a term that is gaining a lot of traction, but definitions of the concept remain blurry and many misleading myths are circulating. In “The 7 Myths of MLOps,” a recent Dataiku Product Days session, we have aimed to set the record straight with some reality checks and myth-busting. This blog recaps the useful information revealed in the session.

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Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Fast, a startup that provided online checkout products, announced this afternoon that it will shut down. The company’s future has been in doubt for days now, after reporting indicated that its 2021 revenue growth was modest, its cash burn high and its fundraising options limited. The Information first reported the company’s conclusion. In a statement, the company said that in the wake of “making great strides on our mission of making buying and selling frictionless for everyone, we have made the

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DevOps.com

APRIL 4, 2022

Software development is complex. It can take years of practice to become an experienced developer. But the good news is that you can build many applications without ever learning to code. Low-code/no-code development is the practice of using a visual interface and drag-and-drop elements to build applications for business processes without coding. These types of […].

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Agile Alliance

APRIL 6, 2022

Perhaps you have tried automating tests in the past, but ended up with an intimidating number of UI tests that take hours to execute. Although you’ve been maintaining the tests for months, you’ve never once seen them all pass. The post Test Automation as a Team Responsibility first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Aqua Security

APRIL 5, 2022

For the past few years, cybercriminals have been hijacking popular npm packages by taking over maintainers’ accounts. As part of our research at Team Nautilus, we discovered two flaws in the npm platform related to two-factor authentication (2FA). By exploiting these flaws, an attacker can target npm packages for account takeover attacks. We reported these findings to the npm team (GitHub), which quickly fixed the underlying security gaps.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Proton , the Geneva, Switzerland-based startup behind the eponymous E2E encrypted webmail service ProtonMail , has acquired French startup SimpleLogin , which offers a freemium, open-source service for creating email aliases to let people shield their actual email address when they sign up for digital services. Paris-based SimpleLogin was founded back in 2019 and works as a browser extension, web app and mobile app — also offering users a dashboard where they can disable aliases (such as i

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DevOps.com

APRIL 6, 2022

With the increased interest in DevSecOps, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and Software Assurance Forum for Excellence in Code (SAFECode) brought together a DevSecOps Working Group to identify and share best practices for the development and maintenance of a DevSecOps program. This working group identified and defined six focus areas critical to integrating DevSecOps into […].

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Agile Alliance

APRIL 5, 2022

I am lucky enough to work for Capital One, an organization that believes in not only pushing ourselves to excellence, but also staying in touch with the community to improve the surrounding area. In my giving to the community, I joined a volunteer initiative called Agile for Learners as the Student Lead to bring Agile … Continued. The post Teaching Agile in Schools: The Triumphs and Enlightenments first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Aqua Security

APRIL 6, 2022

Following on from our previous post on the risks of privilege escalation in Kubernetes via the node/proxy resource, we’re going to take a look at how users who have rights to the certificate signing request (CSR) API in Kubernetes might be able to use them to escalate their privileges in a cluster. In addition to highlighting a potential security risk to be aware of, we’ll also explain how this Kubernetes feature works.

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Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

Jack Hamrick has been trying to reduce the amount of red meat he eats, but the typical portobello mushroom alternative got boring real quick. When he began looking around for a wild mushroom called chicken of the woods, he found it hard to buy. That was when he met Andy Conner, a certified mushroom hunter, who was having the opposite problem — difficulty selling 10 pounds of seaweed he found.

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DevOps.com

APRIL 7, 2022

A survey of 140 enterprise architects and IT leaders published today suggested that, while moving applications to the cloud remains a priority, more attention is being paid to reducing technical debt by retiring applications. Conducted by LeanIX, a provider of a platform for managing enterprise architecture and managing value stream management (VSM), the survey found […].

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Agile Alliance

APRIL 7, 2022

I bought in to the Agile fantasy that managers go away, or are at least less destructive than before a transformation occurs. But here I am, in the middle of a large scale agile transformation at the fourth largest bank in the world – and there are managers EVERYWHERE. The post Thawing the Frozen Middle to Create a Self-organizing Transformation first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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CEO Insider

APRIL 4, 2022

Workplace bullying has been more talked about recently than in prior years, and leadership teams have been doing a better, more effective job of preventing and eliminating it in the workplace. Workplace bullying can take place virtually anywhere, but if a zero-tolerance approach is embedded into a company’s culture starting at the top, it tends […].

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

T ruora , a Colombian user authentication startup, has raised $15 million in Series A funding co-led by two Silicon Valley-based venture firms. Propel Venture Partners and Accel led the investment for Truora, which valued the company at $75 million post-money. . Founded in August 2018, Truora was originally focused on background checks for gigster platforms.

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DevOps.com

APRIL 6, 2022

In this week’s The Long View: No remedy for banned Facebook users, new ARM-based VMs on Microsoft Azure, and The Great Resignation will still be a Thing for the foreseeable. The post Facebook Bans Innocent Users | Azure and ARM/Ampere | ‘Great Resignation’—No End in Sight appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Agile Alliance

APRIL 8, 2022

Many organisations are built to survive and thrive in a 20th century business climate. A climate marked by relative stability and low levels of competition, where efficiently delivering known products and services for years was the recipe for success. The post The 6 Enablers of Business Agility first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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