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Q&A on the Book Managing the Unmanageable
The book Managing the Unmanageable by Mickey W. Mantle and Ron Lichty provides rules, tools, and insights to manage programmers and teams. It explores how to hire and develop programmers, onboard new hires quickly and successfully, and build and nurture highly effective and productive teams.
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Setting Up a Virtual Office for Remote Teams
Adopting a virtual office model saves a business $11,000+ annually per employee. It’s also one of the best answers to employees’ growing demands for mobility. Whether you’re considering a virtual office environment for several employees or a whole team, implement these strategies to ensure managers’ peace of mind and the top productivity of remote workers.
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Java 14 Feature Spotlight: Records
Java SE 14 (March 2020) introduces records (jep359) as a preview feature. Records aim to enhance the language's ability to model "plain data" aggregates with less ceremony. In this article Java Language Architect Brian Goetz takes a deep dive into the feature.
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Q&A on the Book Remote Mob Programming
In the book Remote Mob Programming: At home, but not alone, Simon Harrer, Jochen Christ, and Martin Huber share their experience doing mob programming while working from home for over a year.
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Data-Driven Decision Making – Product Management with Hypotheses
The Data-Driven Decision Making Series provides an overview of how the three main activities in the software delivery - Product Management, Development and Operations - can be supported by data-driven decision making. In Product Management, hypotheses can be used to steer the effectiveness of product decisions about feature prioritization.
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Privacy Architecture for Data-Driven Innovation
This article lays out how you build an internal data governance architecture early in the ingestion phase, which enables you to allocate risk to data and identify such data in your systems. You can then protect the data accordingly. The second half of this article lays out various techniques to share data in a privacy-conscious manner.
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Using OKRs to Build Autonomous Impact Teams
To focus on outcomes rather than outputs, Meilleurs Agents uses the Objective and Key Results framework to align the whole company on what they want to achieve. Christopher Parola and Nicolas Baron gave a presentation at FlowCon France 2019 where they showed how they implemented the OKR method and turned their product and tech teams into impact teams.
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Three Key Success Factors for Improving Test Automation Outcomes
Test automation is crucial in the DevOps world and vitally important even if not taking a DevOps approach, and good test automation requires careful thought and design from the architecture onward. Tests need to be fully automated, and that automation needs to be stable; no test cases should fail for reasons other than issues in the system(s) under test.
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The Road to Artificial Intelligence: An Ethical Minefield
Increasingly-rapid developments in the field of AI have offered society profound benefits, but have also produced complex ethical dilemmas. Many of the most nefarious issues are often overlooked, even in the engineering community. There also exists the meta-ethical question of who ought to be the ones making decisions concerning the encoding of values into autonomous systems.
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Author Q&A on the Book The Innovation Revelation
David Lowe has written the book The Innovation Revelation: A story about satisfying customer needs. The book tells the fictional story of Charlie Blades who is a manager in the IT department of a retail company in London, faced with disruption from outside and old ways of working inside. The story explores how changes in workplace culture and practices can result in better outcomes.
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Why Visual AI Beats Pixel and DOM Diffs for Web App Testing
Visual AI breaks regions of pixels into rendered elements for comparison purposes, similar to how humans view web pages. As a result, Visual AI can compare any kinds of images on a page, providing a more effective mechanism for automated visual testing when compared to pixel and DOM diffing.
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Q&A on the Book Testing Business Ideas
The book Testing Business Ideas by David Bland and Alex Osterwalder provides experiments that can be used to find out if your product ideas are desirable, viable and feasible. Experimentation also helps to reduce the risk and increase the likelihood of success of new venture or business projects.