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Reawakening Agile with OKRs?
Corporate agile often represents an improvement over what went before but falls short on delivering the high performance management wants and quality engineering environment developers dream of. The backlog becomes tyranny. Could OKRs - objectives and key results - reawaken the radical side of agile? Or do OKRs represent a return to command and control?
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Using the Plan-Do-Check-Act Framework to Produce Performant and Highly Available Systems
The PDCA (plan-do-check-act) framework can be used to outline the performance, availability, and monitoring to enable teams to ensure performant and highly available applications. These include infrastructure design and setup, application architecture and design, coding, performance testing, and application monitoring.
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Building Reliable Software Systems with Chaos Engineering
Advances in large-scale, distributed software systems are changing the game for software engineering. As an industry, we are quick to adopt practices that improve flexibility and improve feature velocity. If we can move quickly, can we do so without breaking things? Chaos Engineering practices can be used to navigate complexity and build more reliable systems.
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Cameron Purdy Explains Ecstasy - a New Cloud Native Environment
In this interview, Cameron Purdy discusses Ecstasy - a new Cloud Native programming system and runtime. It is designed to be highly scalable and able to achieve very high density in Cloud environments. The project is taking shape but not at the release stage yet.
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Virtual Group Coaching: How to Improve Group Relationships in Remote Work Settings
Due to the pandemic, many software development teams will work remotely longer or permanently or work in blended venues such as some team members working in an office, some working from home, some working from other venues. Virtual coaching can help to improve group interaction or social dynamics in virtual settings where people work together remotely as a group or team.
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Shifting to Continuous Documentation as a New Approach for Code Knowledge
Documentation is an important part of code development. However, documentation quickly becomes stale as code changes. Continuous documentation focuses on three principles: continuously verifying documents, documenting when it is most needed, and coupling the documentation to the code.
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Software Engineering at Google: Practices, Tools, Values, and Culture
The book Software Engineering at Google provides insights into the practices and tools used at Google to develop and maintain software with respect to time, scale, and the tradeoffs that all engineers make in development. It also explores the engineering values and the culture that’s based on them, emphasizing the main differences between programming and software engineering.
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Microsoft's Low-Code Strategy Paints a Target on UIPath and the Other RPA Companies
Microsoft is investing big in the low code space and has put together a collection of products that is hard for other companies to match, capped recently by the announcement of PowerFX. The target in their sights is the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) companies such as UIPath, Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism who are closing big deals with big enterprises.
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Inspect & Adapt – Digging into Our Foundations of Agility
Inspecting and adapting are fundamentals in agile practices. Yet, there are wide interpretations of how either is done well. It is a matter of our heart and soul – but the answer lies between our ears. In this article, we invite you to dip your toe into the deep waters of the internal inspect & adapt mechanisms. This article can be summarised in four words: Think. And think again.
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Evolution of Azure Synapse: Apache Spark 3.0, GPU Acceleration, Delta Lake, Dataverse Support
At Microsoft Build 2021, Azure Synapse has announced significant improvements for its Apache Spark pool, its performance, and data querying and integration capabilities. This article outlines the improvements and provides the context.
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Evolutionary Architecture from an Organizational Perspective
Creating an architecture that can evolve over time is not simply a technical challenge, and requires collaboration with non-technical people in an organization to ensure the software adapts as needed.
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Agile Transformation: an Integral Approach
The book Agile Transformation - Using the Integral Agile Transformation Framework to Think and Lead Differently by Michael Spayd and Michele Madore provides an integral approach to agile transformations. The integral approach operates on all levels, from individuals to teams to the whole enterprise, helping us take multiple perspectives on situations and to think and act from multiple worldviews.