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The hardest part of building software is not coding, it’s requirements

CIO

I’ve talked to enough fellow software engineers to know I’m not alone. Recently I was asked to help a team build something that could help people get information on health issues related to COVID-19. The team wanted me to help build an application that could do surveys via SMS—phone text messages.

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Scaling DevOps: key strategies and best practices

Agile Engine

Introduction Over the past decade, DevOps has had a transformative impact on how companies manage their software engineering efforts. At most companies, DevOps adoption only propagates to team level, with a long way to go before it can reach organization level.

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Bringing an AI Product to Market

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Qualitative experiments, including research surveys and sociological studies, can be very useful here. For example, many companies use recommendation engines to boost sales. But if your product is highly specialized, customers may come to you knowing what they want, and a recommendation engine just gets in the way. Deployment.

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Fleet nabs $20M to enable enterprises to manage their devices

TechCrunch

Fleet CEO Mike McNeil says that the new capital — which values the company at $100 million post-money — will be put toward scaling Fleet’s team and building a “more complete” device management feature set. Managing employee devices was already tough for IT teams, but the pandemic made the job even tougher.

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Application Modernization Isn’t Just Fighting Legacy Tech

Modus Create

According to a recent Statista survey, Flutter is the fastest-growing SDK for cross-platform development. Flutter not only allows for cross-platform mobile development, it also lets teams build for Linux, Mac, Windows, Google Fuchsia, and the web from a single codebase. Faster development with CI/CD.

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Speeding Up the Enterprise: Virtual Squads at InVision

LaunchDarkly

When you’re building something zero to one, or when you’re re-architecting shared infrastructure, or as an accelerator for important initiatives across the business. Fred Brooks, writer of the Mythical Man-Month, which is possibly the longest-lived and best-known software engineering text in existence.

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7 Business Drivers for More Software Engineering Excellence

Accenture

Agile software developers are among a small group of people who care about code quality and treat it like an art. SolutionsIQ’s Dave Wylie has a passion for excellence in software engineering. We’ve known for a long time, before Agile was even named, that there are good practices the development team should do.