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The Major Software Industry Trends from 2021 and What to Watch in 2022

In this podcast summary Thomas Betts, Wes Reisz, Shane Hastie, Charles Humble, Srini Penchikala, and Daniel Bryant discuss what they have seen in 2021 and speculate a little on what they hope to see in 2022. Topics explored included: hybrid working and the importance of ethics and sustainability within technology.

Daniel Bryant Wesley Reisz Thomas Betts Charles Humble Shane Hastie Srini Penchikala
on Jan 19, 2022
Development

Mitigating Inside and Outside Threats with Zero Trust Security

As ransomware and phishing attacks increase, it is evident that attack vectors can be found on the inside in abundance. Zero Trust Security can be thought of as a new security architecture approach where the main goals are: verifying endpoints before any network communications take place, giving least privilege to endpoints, and continuously evaluating the endpoints throughout the communication.

Sindhuja Rao
on Jan 14, 2022
Culture & Methods

Growing an Experiment-Driven Quality Culture in Software Development

Have you ever faced a challenge at work that you weren’t sure how to tackle? Experiments to the rescue! In a complex environment like software development, no one can tell what might work, so we have to try things out. Read this article to learn about key challenges, insights and lessons, and get inspired for your own path to experimentation.

Lisi Hocke
on Dec 15, 2021
Java

Lightweight External Business Rules

Complex enterprise applications usually come with varying business logic. Such conditions and subsequent system actions, known as rules, are ever varying and demand involvement of domain specific knowledge more than technology and programming. The rules must reside outside the codebase, authored by people with core domain expertise with minimal tech knowledge.

Soham Sengupta Srijeeb Roy
on Dec 03, 2021
Culture & Methods

Applying Social Leadership to Enhance Collaboration and Nurture Communities

There are many styles and forms of leadership. In this article we explore social leadership, a form of leadership that has helped to challenge views on what leadership truly is and find out what behaviours can help create collaborative cultures and spaces where learning and meaningful engagement matter the most.

Sathpal Singh
on Dec 02, 2021
DevOps

Faster Financial Software Development Using Low Code: Focusing on the Four Key Metrics

Low code/no code can help firms achieve the four key performance metrics described in the State of DevOps Reports and Accelerate, to achieve a faster pace of software development. Financial services especially stand to benefit from the trend of adopting low code/no code to drive digital transformation.

Tracy Miranda
on Nov 19, 2021
Culture & Methods

Leading with Empathy

Empathy has emerged as a panacea to combat the anguish and suffering of the global pandemic of COVID-19 and its impact. Leading with empathy is needed. As organizations embrace a hybrid working model, they have to rethink and reimagine four critical areas: execution, collaboration, communication, and enablement. Empathy should be a core tenet of organizational culture.

Gautham Pallapa
on Nov 18, 2021
DevOps

Failing Fast: the Impact of Bias When Speeding up Application Security

This article deals with three biases people can have with establishing application security while trying to move fast in building them, attitude which can cost the organization later, showing how to spot the biases, and providing advice on what to do about them.

Laura Bell
on Nov 08, 2021
Culture & Methods

Techstinction - How Technology Use is Having a Severe Impact on our Climate and What We Can Do

Most people don’t realise how their use of technology, both socially and in the workplace, is responsible for an increasingly significant volume of the world's Co2 emissions. In this article, you will learn how our use of technology is having a severe impact on our climate and what we can do about it.

Barry Chandler
on Oct 29, 2021
Culture & Methods

People, Not Screens: Why Soul-Based Leadership Will Change the Nature of Remote and Hybrid Work

Virtual, remote, or hybrid work is the main leadership challenge of our time. Leaders should focus on bringing out humaneness and people's desire to be seen and heard in respectful and appreciative ways. Soul-based leadership is built on neuroscience and other ways of knowing inspired by eastern philosophies in which aliveness is at the heart of awareness, stillness and calm.

Karen Sobel Lojeski
on Oct 25, 2021
DevOps

Application Security Manager: Developer or Security Officer?

The role of the Application Security Manager (ASM) should be the driving force of the overall code review process. An ASM should know about development processes, information security principles, and have solid technical skills. To get a good ASM you can either use experts from a service provider or grow an in-house professional from developers or security specialists.

Daniil Chernov
on Oct 20, 2021
Architecture & Design

How to Not Lose Your Job to Low-Code Software

The uptake of low code software is so strong that it will almost certainly make its way into your organization. Most software engineers shouldn’t be concerned about this because they are good at the things that low code software is not yet good at. The key to surviving and thriving during this change is ensuring that your role encompasses responsibilities that low code can’t yet do.

Doug Hudgeon
on Oct 12, 2021