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A startup’s guide to software delivery

TechCrunch

As more consumers interact with businesses through a digital interface and more products embrace those interfaces as the opportunity to differentiate, speed and agility are paramount. As we know from Conway’s law , your software architecture and your organizational structure are deeply linked. The key to success is consistency.

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Agile Book Club: Evolutionary Design

James Shore

That’s a problem for Agile, because if change becomes significantly more expensive over time, the Agile model doesn’t make sense. So instead, Agile teams can use evolutionary design: a way of starting simple and improving your design as you go. It’s essential to long-term Agile success. What does it look like in practice?

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From Ph.D. to boutique software developer: An interview with Solwey’s Andrew Drach

TechCrunch

We work with our clients on architecture and infrastructure design, optimization of UX/UI design and user flows, back-end and front-end software development for web and mobile, and business intelligence/data analytics to enable our clients to rapidly grow and move forward. Why do you think architecture design advice is important?

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What is an Agile Environment?

Accenture

As constant change and markets push companies to adapt and deliver at an ever-increasing pace, agile remains at the heart of strategic conversations. It’s a testament to the customer-centric, engaging and ever-innovating agile environment so many companies have created in their tech areas. What’s changing (for the better!)

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Prerequisites for evolutionary architectures

CircleCI

Designing software that is flexible and changeable is arguably the most important architectural property. However, if we optimise our architecture for change (evolvability), when we discover a performance issue or a security vulnerability we can change our system to help address it. Continuous delivery. Software is similar.

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AoAD2 Chapter: Scaling Agility

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Scaling Agility. Although this book is focused on individual Agile teams, many organizations have more than one development team, and they’re often dependent on each other to finish their work. It never works.

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What CEOs really need from today’s CIOs

CIO

Modern delivery is product (rather than project) management , agile development, small cross-functional teams that co-create , and continuous integration and delivery all with a new financial model that funds “value” not “projects.”. The cloud is about more than managing costs.