Martin Fowler

JANUARY 5, 2021

My colleague Tim Cochran has helped many software engineering organizations transform to respond faster to changing market needs.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 6, 2021

What is up awesome people? I hope you had an awesome holiday break. As you may have noticed, there have been several changes introduced in Scrum Guide 2020. Scrum no longer emphasizes roles but instead accountabilities.

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Agile Alliance

JANUARY 5, 2021

The work of an Agile Coach is very versatile. Agile transformations are as well. Each team has its own fingerprint and organisations are one of a kind. This is what makes our work so interesting. One of the challenges of an Agile coach is to stay objective and keep one eye on the horizon.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 17, 2021

One of my great joys of being the CTO at OODA is being able to continuously learn from a community that includes our own analysts and researchers but also a […].

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Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Parsons, CTO of ThoughtWorks

The software development ecosystem exists in a state of dynamic equilibrium, where any new tool, framework, or technique leads to disruption and the establishment of a new equilibrium. Predictability is impossible when the foundation architects plan against is constantly changing in unexpected ways. It’s no surprise many CIOs and CTOs are struggling to adapt, in part because their architecture isn’t equipped to evolve. This webinar will discuss what’s at stake if companies continue to use long term architecture plans.

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The Crazy Programmer

JANUARY 8, 2021

If you decide to start 2021 by creating your project, then you have many things to do right – from validating your idea of choosing a technology stack and development vendor.

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Martin Fowler

JANUARY 6, 2021

Tim continues his comparison of high and low effectiveness organizations by comparing their key feedback loops. To improve these, organizations need to understand the importance of micro feedback loops, which are often neglected because they are so small. more…. skip-home-page

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 5, 2021

At a recent class, a new Scrum Master asked me for a simple example of a Definition of Done. They also wanted to understand how it differed from the concept of acceptance criteria. This post captures my answer to them and I hope it will help simplify this concept for you.

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Agile Alliance

JANUARY 11, 2021

The post Living Complexity: A catalogue of practices for everyday software and digital products development first appeared on Agile Alliance

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CTOvision

JANUARY 11, 2021

The SolarWinds breach is a case study in how attackers can subvert a widely used piece of software to turn it to their advantage, says Lou Manousos, CEO of RiskIQ. “The […]. News RiskIQ SolarWinds

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Speaker: Shannon Lietz, Director of DevSecOps Team, Intuit

You've finally done it: You've won over C-Suite and your DevSecOps team is up and running. You feel ready to take on rising security threats while continuously delivering quality software updates. But how do you monitor your new program? Are you truly able to gauge the state of your projects? To ensure the success of this new breed of a team, you need to know the metrics to look at and how to advocate these metrics to C-Suite and stakeholders. Join Shannon Lietz, Leader and Director of DevsecOps at Intuit, and learn to lead your DevSecOps team to the top.

How To

Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 7, 2021

Lead like it’s the first time to give your team energy. Early in my career, I learned a vital leadership lesson about how to give your team energy. I was working with an education nonprofit that supported children who lived in poverty. […].

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 14, 2021

Engineering teams that successfully implement DevOps practices often deliver software with higher business value.

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Martin Fowler

JANUARY 13, 2021

Cluster nodes need exclusive access to certain resources. But nodes can crash; they can be temporarily disconnected or experiencing a process pause. Under these error scenarios, they should not keep the access to a resource indefinitely. more…. skip-home-page

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

Most Scrum Teams that I encounter don’t do refinement of their Product Backlog and try to work on things that they don’t understand correctly. However, if you get to the Sprint Planning event and your backlog is not ready, then you are doing it wrong.

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Agile Alliance

JANUARY 14, 2021

The post The Importance of Data in Software Development first appeared on Agile Alliance. Process agile development data software development testing

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CTOvision

JANUARY 13, 2021

Intel CEO Bob Swan will step down Feb. 15 and be replaced by VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger. The chip giant said in a statement that the CEO change wasn’t related to […]. News Intel Intel Corporation vmware

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Xebia

JANUARY 15, 2021

Each organization involved in creating software eventually has a need to deliver that software. It is what we call the software delivery process. Typically, software delivery starts at the moment that a developer has written code locally and wants to publish it. Or, as Martin Fowler puts it: From the developer finishing the feature to […]. The post Improving the quality of software delivery utilizing technology, process and people appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 4, 2021

In the new digital normal, where remote working has upended conventional software development cycles, the role of DevOps is central.

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Martin Fowler

JANUARY 5, 2021

Unmesh has a few more of his Patterns of Distributed Systems ready to share with the world. In this one he looks at the problem of a large cluster, one that is too large to effectively maintain strong consistency, yet needs to maintain some data in a strongly consistent way.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 2021

TL; DR: 71 Product Owner Interview Questions to Avoid Imposters. If you are looking to fill a position for a Product Owner in your organization, you may find the following 71 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate.

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Agile Alliance

JANUARY 13, 2021

Ewan O'Leary, Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) tells of his experience with social justice challenges in South Africa, and the United States. He also guides us in how agile coaching can be a powerful practice to help teams achieve their level of awesomeness.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 11, 2021

It’s that time of the month when GitLab cranks out its usual slew of security fixes, but this time your API access token is at risk, so don’t wait too […]. News Gitlab

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Xebia

JANUARY 11, 2021

In November 2020 AWS had a major outage, which started with their Kinesis service, having a cascading failure over some services. Several articles and analyses of the outage, including the official note from AWS. This blog post reflects the outage, but rather focus on the technical aspects, I will deep dive into the social ones, […]. The post Mental models: a reflection on AWS outage appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 11, 2021

Managed Detection and Response (MDR), a relative newcomer in the cybersecurity realm, is starting to have a noticeable impact on enterprises seeking to better secure their operations.

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Martin Fowler

JANUARY 6, 2021

Tim continues his comparison of high and low effectiveness organizations by comparing their key feedback loops. To improve these, organizations need to understand the importance of micro feedback loops, which are often neglected because they are so small. more…. skip-home-page

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 14, 2021

On today's episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Where does a Project Manager fit on a Scrum Team? We get this question pretty often, especially when speaking at conferences: I'm a project manager at company that just adopted Scrum, am I now out of a job?

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