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Measuring and managing technical debt with DevOps

CircleCI

Every technical team in the software industry is familiar with technical debt. That is because every software team incurs technical debt along the way. This article answers some critical questions about technical debt. What is technical debt? In doing so, this team is incurring a technical “debt.”

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Why Having a Tech Lead or Manager as Scrum Master is a Bad Idea

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Facilitation: of all Scrum events, such as Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective. So what about having a Tech Lead or Manager fill the role of ScrumMaster? Tech Lead as ScrumMaster Tech Leads are a more traditional hierarchical role. On technical improvements or team improvements?

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The value of Agile Architecture in a modern organization

Xebia

Mostly, this is due to the fact, that modern Agile Architecture requires a broad skill set to be done right as a business function. An Enterprise Architect adds a different kind of value than a Tech Lead or Lead Engineer, who does architecture as well. In fact, nowadays, Architecture has shifted from a job title to a role.

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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

In orgs where it’s all about delivering tickets as quickly as possible or obsessing over technology, the culture and results are poorer. Simon Brown taught me how to review architecture diagrams 10 years ago. Equally, it requires people who enjoy constructively reviewing and providing feedback.

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Navy Acquisition Can Easily Be Fixed

Marv's Smart Future

Along with new weapon and sensor technologies, this vision is critically dependent upon out-pacing peer competitors with artificial intelligence and cyberspace control. can no longer remain ahead while fielding and sustaining 3, 4, or even 5 generation old information technology. naval warfare.

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#define CTO OpenAI

Greg Brockman

We were missing a core ingredient: we needed an AI technical visionary, someone whose intuition and ideas we could follow to the breakthroughs. Without intervention, AI will play out like self-driving cars — a cooperative start followed by a technological race once its potential is proven. I wanted to contribute however I could.

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Unleashing the power of generative AI: Verisk’s journey to an Instant Insight Engine for enhanced customer support

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK) is a leading data analytics and technology partner for the global insurance industry. Verisk has embraced this technology and has developed their own Instant Insight Engine, or AI companion, that provides an enhanced self-service capability to their FAST platform.