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What Made the iOS 13 Launch So Buggy and How to Fix the Development Process
Apple's latest iOS release, iOS 13, was affected by a number of bugs that caused disappointed reactions by users. In a story ran by Bloomberg, sources familiar with Apple explained what went wrong in the iOS 13 release process and how Apple is aiming to fix this for the future.
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Wade Davis Encourages Solidarity with Women at QConSF
Wade Davis spoke at QCon San Francisco 2019, at the Women in Tech & Allies Breakfast Co-Sponsored by Netflix. He encouraged allies to do something every day in the journey of creating equality for women in technology.
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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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How Engagement Models Support Agile Adoption: Q&A with Karl Scotland
Engagement models are approaches to transformation which actively include people in the assessment of the current situation and the exploration of new ideas. By using an engagement model, people can participate in deciding and defining what the agile transformation will look like.
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GitHub Launches Mobile App, Notifications Beta, and Code Navigation Features
At this year's Universe Conference, GitHub made a number of announcements aimed at improving developer experience in the daily use of the platform, including a mobile client app and notification, as well as promoting workflow automation tools such as GitHub Actions and GitHub Packages to general availability.
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From Waterfall to Agile at NAV Test Centre of Excellence
Changing how we work from waterfall to agile is all about envisioning the goals, focusing on success factors and then surviving the transit, said Torstein Skarra at TestCon Europe 2019. The Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) has moved from project-based waterfall and six releases per year to agile cross-function autonomous teams with several releases per day, per team.
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Heroku's Journey to Automated Continuous Deployment
Heroku's engineering team wrote about their journey from manual deployments to automated continuous deployments for Heroku Runtime, their managed environment for applications. They achieved this using Heroku primitives and a custom deployer tool.
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Traefik 2.0 Supports TCP, Middleware, and New Routing Features
The release of version 2.0 for the cloud native edge router Traefik introduces support for TCP routing, request middleware, canary deployments and A/B testing, and a new dashboard and web UI. The latest release provides more tools for developers to configure and manage routes, and improved cluster visibility.
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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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Digital Factory on a Global Scale: Scaled Agile and DevOps at UBS
UBS is rolling out a scaled agile setup globally in Switzerland, India and the APAC region. Christian Bucholdt, head IT of digital factory management at UBS, spoke at Agile Leadership Day 2019 about their Digital Factory approach and how it will change the entire delivery organization.
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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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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.