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Empathy is a Technical Skill

Empathy, like software, is a deeply technical topic that can challenge you in the best way while making your life richer and more rewarding. This article explores how an empathy-focused approach to software development can help pay down technical debt, increase automated test coverage, build trust among team members, and contribute to the overall health of a software system.

Andrea Goulet
on Aug 13, 2019
Cloud

Kubernetes Workloads in the Serverless Era: Architecture, Platforms, and Trends

Explore how microservices architecture has evolved into cloud-native architecture, where many of the infrastructure concerns are provided by Kubernetes in combination with additional abstractions provided by service mesh and serverless frameworks. In addition, the serverless ecosystem is evolving by exploring standard and open packaging, runtimes, and event formats.

Bilgin Ibryam
on Aug 12, 2019
Culture & Methods

The Challenges in Integrating Cross-Boundary Teams

Cross-boundary teams are the hub of innovation. However, creating and nurturing a cross-functional team for innovation is a challenging task. It needs a deep understanding of the nature of knowledge, diversity and interactions within a team. Managers and team leaders can infer valuable information from a deeper understanding of the contextual and knowledge level challenges in such teams.

Premjith Purushotham
on Aug 07, 2019
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Privacy Attacks on Machine Learning Models

Research has shown that machine learning models can expose personal information present in their training data. This vulnerability exposes sensitive user information to attackers savvy enough to learn how to hack a machine learning API. We'll explore the details of several privacy attacks against machine learning models and provide some potential solutions for this growing security issue.

Katharine Jarmul
on Aug 06, 2019
Culture & Methods

Scrum & The Toyota Production System, Build Ultra-Powerful Teams

How to use the Toyota Production System, as a knowledge-building system, to reveal learning topics on which to work to develop outstanding Scrum teams for exceptional results.

Pierre Jannez
on Aug 02, 2019
Development

Unlocking Continuous Testing: The Four Best Practices Necessary for Success

While the majority of organizations have enthusiastically embraced agile planning and development, most still find themselves unable to effectively implement continuous testing throughout the software development lifecycle. There are four best practices to help overcome this: focus on test quality, keep your tests short and atomic, test across multiple platforms, and leverage parallelization.

Lubos Parobek
on Jul 31, 2019
Culture & Methods

Rediscovering Lean

For those who love continuous improvement, software engineering fits. Turn in any direction and you’ll see potential for doing better, going faster and increasing quality. You should not try to chase the latest and greatest agile practices. Instead, spend time working out your unique approach based on the goal you have been given, the people you have, and the underlying principles that you hold.

Kevin Duggan
on Jul 29, 2019
Culture & Methods

2019 State of Testing Report

The State of Testing 2019 report provides insights into the adoption of test techniques, practices, and test automation, and the challenges that testers are facing. It shares results from this year’s testing survey.

Ben Linders Joel Montvelisky Lalit Bhamare
on Jul 27, 2019
Culture & Methods

Humanity at Work: Interview with Rich Sheridan, Author of Chief Joy Officer

Richard Sheridan describes the importance of joy and humanity in the workplace and how it contributes to increasing employees' job satisfaction and engagement. Joy has always been important for employees, and today even more as we are welcoming new generations of workers.

Shaaron A Alvares
on Jul 25, 2019
Java

Running Single-file Programs without Compiling in Java 11

Starting with Java SE 11, and for the first time in the programming language’s history, you can execute a script containing Java code directly without compilation. The Java 11 source execution feature makes it possible to write scripts in Java and execute them directly from the *inx command line.

Mohamed Taman
on Jul 24, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Gamification for Business

The book Gamification for Business by Sune Gudiksen and Jake Inlove explores the usage of games for effectively tackling business challenges and improving organizational performance. It provides results from research on gamification, case studies of game-based solutions, and the benefits that serious games and design thinking can bring.

Ben Linders Jake Inlove
on Jul 23, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Virtual Leadership

The book Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best out of Virtual Work and Virtual Teams by Penny Pullan provides suggestions and practices for people working in or with virtual teams. It discusses leadership styles suitable for virtual or remote teams and explores what can be done to improve collaboration and communication, and engage remote participants.

Penny Pullan Ben Linders
on Jul 20, 2019