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How do you know DevOps is working?

CloudGeometry

It goes beyond just engineering culture and draining the backlog using harmonious collaboration. SaaS is the Software Factory of the Future The ascendancy of SaaS as a business strategy is nothing new. It matters just as much if you are writing code to update the network config or the website.

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Defining Simplicity for Enterprise Software as “a 10 Year Old Can Demo it”

Cloudera

Yet, users of those products want a consumer level of simplicity in enterprise software. Unlocking product led growth depends on an easy-to-use, self-explanatory interface. As a product manager, I rank features in my backlog against: How much revenue will this help me get? How hard is it for engineering to build?

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

While Charity has deep experience in the domains of infrastructure & operations, databases, and backend engineering, I come originally from design, frontend, and product engineering, and I take a particular joy in collaborating with product management and ux design.

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Cross-Functional Teams in Product Development: Definition, Principles and Examples

Altexsoft

In this post, we explore the concept of cross-functional teams in product development , discuss the benefits and challenges of running a cross-functional team, and give practical recommendations for building it. In the meantime, a developer can work with a QA engineer to identify and fix the bugs or issues that pop up during testing.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

Once software engineers realized they might be awakened in the middle of the night if their code created a problem, they became very good at keeping bugs out of their code. Three strategies emerged: Teams hardened their service interfaces, effectively isolating their service from unintended interactions from the rest of the system.