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Experiences at STAREAST 2019: An Interview with Mike Sowers[interview]
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Mike Sowers, senior consultant and VP of Training with Coveros, discusses the value of attending the STAREAST conference: networking, couch sessions, and being able to discuss common challenges with colleagues. He details conversations about trying to improve personal core competencies along with our teams and organizations, integrating agile and moving into DevOps, and how testing operates in a continuous context. Mike also talks about upcoming conferences and staying ahead of the technology curve through training and learning opportunities. |
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Job Security in the Age of Automation: An Interview with Dawn Haynes[interview]
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In this interview, Dawn Haynes, CEO, testing coach, and consultant for PerfTestPlus, discusses the ever-evolving world of AI and machine learning and the impact on the future of testing. Dawn explains why tools and automation will not be able to replace people, so testers don’t need to worry about job security. |
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Distributed Agile Approaches Optimize for the Team over Individuals[article] Consider how your team currently organizes: for resource efficiency, optimizing for the individual; or for flow efficiency, optimizing for the team? Successful agile teams—distributed or not—should collaborate to optimize the flow of work through the team. This approach lets you understand your capacity, learn together, and deliver more effectively. |
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Agile and DevOps Transformation in the Telecom Industry[presentation]
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The telecom industry changes rapidly, the competition is fierce, and user experience is the utmost priority. In today's world of digitization and data personalization, effective use of agility and DevOps is the key behind ensuring customer satisfaction. |
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AWS Lambda: Best Practices and Common Mistakes[presentation]
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AWS Lambda is a serverless architecture that relieves you of hardware and scaling setup concerns. AWS Lambda functions are used by many organizations for serverless application development and automating DevOps tasks. |
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Feature Flagging: Proven Patterns for Control and Observability in Continuous Delivery[presentation]
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Are you moving faster than fast? Congrats! Chances are you already use feature flags to decouple code deployments from feature rollouts. |
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Contract Testing with Pact: A Different Approach[presentation]
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With the microservice architecture evolving and becoming a golden standard, the necessity of testing the contracts between services appears to be more and more obvious. |
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The Inner Game of User Stories[presentation]
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When agile teams are working, the all-important stories stay on the wall (or, worse, in a tool). They sometimes get seen, touched, and loved only once a day. Why are the stories not the focus of the work? |
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Agile Metrics: Let NUM8ERS Tell the Story[presentation]
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Agile and DevOps metrics and dashboards enable agile teams and their leaders to measure time to market, quality, productivity, predictability, employee engagement, and customer satisfaction. |
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Maximizing Agile Benefits through Understanding Learning Styles[presentation]
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The Agile Manifesto says we value people and interactions over processes and tools. Yet when we talk about the agile methods, we usually end up talking about processes. |
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We Inflicted DevOps on Our Business—Now What?[presentation]
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It seems that everyone is aflutter with DevOps, the shiny new panacea for all of our software ailments. What technical goodness can DevOps bestow upon us? What riddles does it unlock for us as technologists? |
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5 Steps to a DevOps Transformation[presentation]
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For any continuously improving organization, certain actions are commonly applicable when going through large amounts of change. Dan Barker walks through the five steps to transformational change that he's found to be crucial for moving to DevOps processes. |
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So You’re Using Docker. Now What?[presentation]
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These days everyone wants to containerize their application, but not everyone understands the best way to go about it. |
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Build a Healthy Product Backlog with User Story Mapping[presentation]
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Successful agile software development depends on a healthy product backlog. Too often, teams attempting to adopt an agile methodology for a project with a new product owner struggle in their transition due to a sparse product backlog. |
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Using Lean XP to Supercharge Your Agile Delivery[presentation]
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Most teams that do agile development start with Scrum. And why not? Scrum is a proven method for focusing your team, ensuring that work adds value, and minimizing the risk with release. Then, after awhile, Scrum becomes stagnant. |
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