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#MyTechFrenemy

TechCrunch

Founded by Awodele in 2020, MyTechBestFriend (MTBF) launched to public acclaim, especially within the Black tech community. For a minimum of $3,000, it offers to teach people skills, such as technical writing, and help prime them find high-paying tech jobs. A lot of the people who signed up for MTBF were new to tech.

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Passive collaboration is essential to remote work’s long-term success

TechCrunch

While some companies were better positioned than others — whether it be due to a previously distributed workforce, a reliance on cloud apps and services, or already-established flexible work policies — the adjustment to a fully remote workforce has been challenging for everyone. Active versus passive collaboration.

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Book review: Escaping the Build Trap by Melissa Perri

Wolk Software Engineering

A couple of days ago I finished reading Escaping the Build Trap by Melissa Perri and, as usual, I would like to share a review with the community. This style makes sometimes the book feel like a novel and not like a traditional technical book, and it brought back to my mind memories from The phoenix project by Gene Kim.

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Our Engineering Apprentice Journey

Tandem

We use both Scrum and Kanban practices in our work depending on the problem we’re solving and the client we’re working with. Agile software development and frameworks (Scrum and Kanban). They’ll send out your official 3-month performance reviews. The curriculum is always evolving and includes. Version control.

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Top 13 GitHub Alternatives in 2020 [Free and Paid]

Codegiant

Pull and Merge Requests You can use pull and merge requests to peer review and enhance the quality of your code. Source Code Management: Collaborate Use merge requests to review your teammates’ code or get your build peer-reviewed inside your source code repository, thus enhancing the quality of the features you release.

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Build A Business Mobile App That Maximizes Productivity and Minimize Stress

Xicom

Regardless of the work of line you are in, technology has a foothold in some or the other way. Often, the most straightforward technology integration we all see and use is a “smartphone app”. Presently, businesses are paying particular focus on technology amalgamation with the right communication tools. Your staff!

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

This working paper was submitted as a chapter in The International Handbook of Lean Organization , Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming. So small changes were submitted, reviewed, and integrated into the live code base as quickly as possible. What current – and future – technologies can we use to lower their costs?