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New Enterprise Decision-Making - Dealing with Uncertainty

Decision making is not usually a simple activity and is rarely easy. Alex da Costa presents some ideas and tips that may help make the process a little easier and more objective. He provides some guidance on what things to consider, which ways to evaluate decision making criteria depending on the scope of the decision and the organisation the decision is being made for.

Alex da Costa
on Sep 20, 2018
Architecture & Design

The DDD Do-Over

Jimmy Bogard had a rare opportunity to do what many developers want after finishing a tough project -- a do-over. His team worked on two very similar projects, both using DDD. He discusses the lessons learned from the first project and how the team avoided common pitfalls and was more successful on their later project.

Thomas Betts
on Sep 18, 2018
Culture & Methods

Ajey Gore on Small Teams Making a Big Difference and Effective Outsourcing

Ajay Gore will talk at the upcoming Agile Impact conference in Indonesia on his experiences working across multiple cultures, outsourcing for the right reasons and how small teams who have end-to-end responsibility for their products enable scaling and growth.

Hugo Messer
on Sep 17, 2018
DevOps

Chaos Conf Q&A: The Benefits, Challenges and Practices of Chaos Engineering

This Q&A, from the upcoming Chaos Conf event that is running in San Francisco in September, examines the benefits and challenges of chaos engineering. The article also provides emerging good practice, and contains prerequisites, recommendations, and tips for getting started.

Daniel Bryant
on Sep 14, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Emotional Science

The book Emotional Science by Michael K Sahota and Audree Tara Sahota provides an understanding of emotions, which, as stated by the authors, goes beyond current models in psychology. The book provides exercises that can be used to become aware of emotions and learn how to deal with them, which is a practical way of increasing your Emotional Intelligence.

Ben Linders Michael Sahota Audree Tara Sahota
on Sep 14, 2018
Development

14 Things I Wish I’d Known When Starting with MongoDB

I’ve been a database person for an embarrassing length of time, but I only started working with MongoDB recently. When I was starting out with MongoDB, there are a few things that I wish I’d known about. With general experience, there will always be preconceptions of what databases are and what they do. In hopes of making it easier for other people, here is a list of common mistakes.

Phil Factor
on Sep 13, 2018
Culture & Methods

Are You the Barrier to Innovation?

You've adopted technologies like SOA and microservices to keep your infrastructure future-proof. So why do you still struggle to innovate? It's not your technology - it's your culture. Rob Zazueta explains how focusing on an agile culture may be more beneficial for your organization than adopting the latest architectural trends.

Robert Zazueta
on Sep 12, 2018
Architecture & Design

How the TOGAF Standard Serves Enterprise Architecture

Any architect working with large enterprise systems has probably looked for guidance on how to manage the complexity and communicate with various stakeholders. This introductory overview of the TOGAF standard explains the structure of the framework, as well as discusses the benefits of using enterprise architecture to manage complex systems.

Will Stevens
on Sep 11, 2018
Culture & Methods

Agile Transformation at Ericsson

Applying complex systems thinking, growing the agile mindset through storytelling, and visualizing the interplay; these are some of the things that drove the agile transformation at Ericsson. Having a leadership team that fully embraced agility, an independent group of agile coaches, and doing frequent retrospectives in the leadership team ensured that the transformation stayed on track.

Ben Linders Hendrik Esser
on Sep 10, 2018
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Democratizing Stream Processing with Apache Kafka® and KSQL - Part 2

In this article, author Robin Moffatt shows how to use Apache Kafka and KSQL to build data integration and processing applications with the help of an e-commerce sample application. Three use cases discussed: customer operations, operational dashboard, and ad-hoc analytics.

Robin Moffatt
on Sep 07, 2018
Culture & Methods

Using Checklists to Organize Software Development Processes

A checklist as a process organization tool has already made a good showing in aviation and healthcare. In this article, Zakhar Yung explains how Agile teams take advantage of checklists at different stages of software development processes including sprint planning, software testing, deployment and debugging, and discover their benefits for your own project.

Zakhar Yung
on Sep 06, 2018
.NET

Async Streams in C# 8

Asynchronous programming is an important technique for many modern apps to improve responsiveness. C# 8 debuts Async Streams, which allows an async method return multiple values. Bassam Alugili provides an informative introduction to this new technique.

Bassam Alugili
on Sep 05, 2018