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How to work with Your Auditors to Influence a Better Audit Experience

It is possible to influence a better audit experience, transforming it from a check-the-box exercise with little perceived value to one of true value that helps set you up for success, and with way less pain. This article explores how to experiment with adding agility into audit work while auditing a client, which can lead to better outcomes for you and your auditors.

Clarissa Lucas
on Nov 22, 2023
Culture & Methods

Start Your Architecture Modernization with Domain-Driven Discovery

Successful projects start with robust discovery. What if your project is modernizing your tangled old legacy system or migrating all your workloads to the cloud? This article presents a guided approach to starting your next architecture modernization project with a Domain-Driven Discovery (DDD), illustrated with a medical supply company that is migrating its core systems to the cloud.

Ryan Shriver
on May 12, 2023
Culture & Methods

Dark Side of DevOps - the Price of Shifting Left and Ways to Make it Affordable

Topics like “you build it, you run it” and “shifting testing/security/data governance left” are popular. Moving things to earlier stages of software development, empowering engineers. Yet, what is the cost? What does it mean for the developers who are involved? What are the solutions that can help you keep DevOps and Shifting Left? What can we do to break a grip of the dark side? Let’s find out!

Mykyta Protsenko
on Apr 21, 2023
Culture & Methods

Secure Delivery: Better Workflows for Secure Systems and Pain-Free Delivery

The software delivery process has been transformed in the last decade; we’ve adopted well-understood workflows around functions such as testing, release management and operational support. In this article we'll explore the impact that security workflows have on software delivery, explain the root causes and share battle-proven techniques to show how we can make delivering secure software easier.

Chris Rutter
on Feb 10, 2023
Culture & Methods

How to Use Your Existing Software Development Process Data to Find More Bugs in Less Time

This article presents better solutions that employ data from the system under test and the tests themselves to optimize testing efforts. This allows teams to find more bugs (by making sure that bug-dense areas are tested) in less time (by reducing the executions of tests that are very unlikely to detect bugs).

Elmar Jürgens
on Jan 27, 2023
Culture & Methods

Finding Adequate Metrics for Outer, Inner, and Process Quality in Software Development

Implementing a feature can be measured. Quality is harder to measure. This article explores how to balance improving quality and adding new features. It dives into different domains of quality: Outer quality which is owned by the product people (e.g. product owners, testers), inner quality owned by the developers, and process quality owned by managers.

Michael Kutz
on Jan 19, 2023
Culture & Methods

Craftleadership: Craft Your Leadership as Developers Craft Code

Learning software craftership made me reconsider how I wrote code. Being an experienced software team manager, I try to reevaluate my management practices in the same way: what could test-driven management or pair-management be? Here I propose different insights on how software craftership tools and mindset are transposable to the management domain.

Edouard Gomez-Vaëz
on Nov 22, 2022
Culture & Methods

Bringing a Product Mindset into DevOps

To be successful, organisations need two things: products and services their customers find valuable, and the ability to deliver these products and services well. This article shows why we must design, implement and operate our delivery pipelines (the means of turning ideas into products in the hands of users) as we would any other product or service: by adding a “product mindset".

Marcel Britsch
on Nov 15, 2022
Culture & Methods

Individualized Testing Processes - One Size Does Not Fit All

Many organizations in the software industry have fallen into a state where they have set processes that are used across the organization and teams. Every team is not the same, so why are their processes all the same? In this article we’re going to explore what it can mean for teams to have individualized processes that are formed by the context of the work they are doing and of the team itself.

Bailey Hanna
on Nov 03, 2022
Culture & Methods

Green IoT for Energy Efficiency and Environmental Sustainability

The growth of IoT has resulted in improving connectivity amongst devices worldwide. Green IoT represents the energy efficient procedures adopted by IoT devices to achieve a sustainable and safer world. In order to green the IoT, it will be necessary to use less energy, look for new resources, reduce the negative effects of the IoT on human health, and cause less environmental disruption.

Anubha Jain
on Oct 25, 2022
Culture & Methods

Getting Rid of Wastes and Impediments in Software Development Using Data Science

This article presents how to use data science to detect wastes and impediments, and concepts and related information that help teams to figure out the root cause of impediments they struggle to get rid of. The knowledge discovered during research includes an expanded waste classification, and the use of trends to uncover undesired situations like hidden delayed backlog items and defects trends.

Everton Lucas
on Jan 07, 2022
Culture & Methods

You’re Doing it Wrong: it’s Not about Data and Applications – It’s about Processes

Classic developer thinking tends to approach application design from a data-centric point of view. When the domain is process management, that often leads to excess complexity and work; it also (wrongly) over-reduces proactive processes to quick bursts of automation triggered by data changes. There’s a better way to do this: start with the process.

Mike Fitzmaurice
on Dec 07, 2021