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Jenkins Creator Launches ML Startup in Continuous Risk-Based Testing
Jenkins creator, Kohsuke Kawaguchi, starts Launchable, a startup using machine learning to identify risk-based tests. Testing thought leader Wayne Ariola also writes about the need for a continuous testing approach, where targeted risk-based tests help provide confidence for continuous delivery.
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Collaborative Decision-Making in Self-Organizing Teams
Giving people the opportunity to express their full potential in self-organizing teams is the best way to make an organization thrive today, argued Lorenzo Massacci. At Agile Business Day 2019, he presented how teams that organize themselves can continuously make decisions effectively and efficiently.
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Microsoft Introduces Power Virtual Agents, a No-Code Solution to Building AI Bots
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of Power Virtual Agents, a service designed to democratize building conversational chatbots using a no-code graphical user interface. The service is part of the Microsoft Power Platform, which includes Power Apps, Power BI and Power Automate and democratizes access to building artificial intelligence-powered bots.
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Microsoft Rebrands Flow Service to Power Automate, Adds Robotic Process Automation Capabilities
At the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced changes to its cloud-based automation service, Microsoft Flow. The service has been re-branded to Power Automate, which better aligns to other Power Platform services. Microsoft has also expanded on the capabilities of the Microsoft Flow service by providing Robotic Process Automation (RPA) capabilities, in preview.
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What Is Your Superpower? Neurodiversity and Tech at QConSF 2019
In her QCon SF 2019 talk, Elizabeth Schneider compared neurodiversity to superpowers. Once you know that you think differently, and understand how to protect your skills, you can take on the world.
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How Lean Has Helped the IT Team Take Pride in Their Work
More teamwork, a better vision of daily work, a team that works in a concentrated way, and more pride in doing a job well; these are the benefits that Mélanie Noyel mentioned that their IT team at Acta gained from using Lean. At the Lean Digital Summit 2019 she presented on how they applied Lean to improve the IT team’s daily work.
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Systemic Coaching as a Leadership Approach
Leadership and culture drive every transformation. An organization will not accept structural or process changes without being open and ready for such changes, said Matthias Gebhardt at Agile Leadership Day 2019; the way to go with a transformation is to transform your leaders first.
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Democratizing Portal Development, Microsoft Announces Power Apps Portals General Availability
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability of Power Apps portals, a solution that allows organizations to publish customer, partner and community portals to internal and external users using a low-code, configuration-driven, responsive web experience.
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DOES 2019: BMW Journey to 100% Agile and BizDevOps Product Portfolio
BMW presented why and how they transformed their IT to 100% agile and BizDevOps. They adopted a holistic approach with four focus areas: Process, Structure, Technology and People & Culture, allowing them to move from project to products.
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Being Our Authentic Selves at Work
Can we truly be our authentic selves at work, or are we at times covering? Covering takes energy and can isolate people; companies that foster authenticity and remove barriers that inhibit people from being themselves tend to be more successful. At Women in Tech Dublin 2019, a panel consisting of Mairead Cullen and Ingrid Devin, led by Ruth Scott, discussed being our authentic selves at work.
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DOES 2019: Michael Winslow and Leslie Chapman on the Black Employees Network Engineers at Comcast
Comcast presented several talks at the 2019 DevOps Enterprise Summit. Michael Scott Winslow, director software development and engineering, and Leslie Chapman, distinguished engineer, presented a DevOps Confession about how challenging it is to feel fully included and to emerge as a successful technology leader when we belong to a diverse and minority group.
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How Digital Culture Can Drive the Digital Transformation
Digital culture is the key ingredient for digital transformations; it increases productivity and innovation in order to maintain a competitive edge, said Aisling Curtis. At Women in Tech Dublin 2019 she spoke about the future of work and the role that digital culture plays in digital transformations.
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How the USCIS Bridged the Divide between IT and the Business at DOES 2019
An IT and business USCIS team who led their largest IT transformation program to date presented their journey at the 2019 DevOps Enterprise Summit. In 2017, they embarked on their digitalization journey with the goal to optimize their manual adjudication processes. They overcame the challenges and delivered business outcomes while improving on their DevOps technology.
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DOES 2019: Creating a Culture of High Performance by Dr. Andre Martin From Google
The speed of growth is creating unforeseen and powerful impacts on company culture. Dr. Martin, VP PeopleDev at Google, shared the negative impacts that growth has on culture and what the best workplaces do to create a more compelling employee experience.
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Developing Cultural Sensitivity in Working with Other Cultures
Cultural differences can be a challenge in an international workplace, but at the same time cultural diversity can also be fascinating, said Rachel Smets. At Positive Psychology in Practice 2019 she suggested we prepare ourselves when working with other cultures or moving abroad, and develop our cultural sensitivity by learning about new cultures as much as we can.