OverOps

JUNE 4, 2019

In a previous post , we looked at the magnitude and impact of the soaring cost of poor software quality in the US and where those hidden costs are typically found. Knowing these values allows management and team members across the company to take action in ensuring high quality at a lower cost.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

From a business thats been stable and consistent for many years, its now in a position to review what the business model should look like in the future, and do whats necessary to transition in order to remain not just relevant but competitive. Its been too weak in recent years. Theres a lot that has to happen behind the scenes.

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Xebia

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Many teams are using Atlassian’s JIRA as an issue tracker, which then becomes a valuable source of information for their daily operations. As a team leader utilizing JIRA, you probably have employed JIRA dashboards to monitor the status of work, usually in context of a (release) planning. “won’t fix”).

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Honeycomb

APRIL 16, 2025

In 2018, I dashed off a punchy little blog post in which I observed that teams with good observability seemed to spend around ~20-30% of their infra bill to get it. Or they have a very simple architecture, a system that does not change very often, and/or customer experience is not a priority or a differentiator for them. (If

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Palo Alto Networks

JANUARY 2, 2025

Currently being developed by the largest tech companies, startups and governments alike, quantum computers use the principles of quantum mechanics to perform calculations faster than todays computers. While still in the early stages of development, big advancements in quantum computing are expected in the next decade or two.

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2024

CIOs need to align operations with these new use cases while ensuring their teams can support enterprise-wide digital transformations. Stapleton shares that ProcessUnity is conducting annual business impact reviews with executive and senior leadership teams, providing insight into critical business processes, HR, and technologies.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

From poor data accessibility to changing customer expectations, IT leaders are turning to generative AI (GenAI) as an answer to their problems. You need tools that can grow as your data does while giving you visibility into your systems. Legacy systems can also play a part in tool sprawl.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Lack of vision A common reason digital transformation fails is due to a lack of vision, which along with planning is the foundation for digital success. Poor execution Even the best plans can fail if execution is poor. This may require hiring outside experts and/or investing in training and development for existing staff.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Investing in Agility.

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Gorilla Logic

MARCH 17, 2023

Have you ever been part of a team where tickets are hard to understand or don’t supply enough detail for the team to properly work? Experiences like these make many developers think about using Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). Know your team members You work with your team every day and know them well.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

He earned a master’s degree from Villanova, but it was in human resources development. Cybersecurity is too important to risk having team members who can’t (no pun intended) hack it. Cybersecurity is too important to risk having team members who can’t (no pun intended) hack it. He graduated from a college I’d never heard of.

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CIO

MAY 2, 2023

Citizen developers have emerged as an approach to bridge the gap between technical expertise and domain knowledge. Citizen developers are a vital resource for organizations looking to streamline processes, increase efficiency, and reduce costs, whilst supporting business innovation and agile change. Who is a citizen developer?

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Datavail

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In 2001, a group of expert software developers created the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. That document started a movement in the software development world and many teams now use the Agile software development approach. What is Agile Software Development?

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CIO

JUNE 11, 2024

A 1958 Harvard Business Review article coined the term information technology, focusing their definition on rapidly processing large amounts of information, using statistical and mathematical methods in decision-making, and simulating higher order thinking through applications.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Sprint Planning is the most underappreciated Agile event. This resulting plan is created by the collaborative work of the entire Scrum Team.”. The Guide goes on to say that the team is expected to cover three topics: Why is the Sprint Valuable? We’ll use them as an example of a typical Scrum team.

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CIO

JULY 23, 2024

Are agile teams overly stressed with too many priorities? Mounting technical debt from mission-critical systems CIOs have good reason to stress out over rising technical debt and the impact of supporting legacy systems past their end-of-life dates. Is the organization transforming fast enough?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise. Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. There are other risks, too.

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CIO

MARCH 17, 2023

Organizations have been transitioning away from legacy, monolithic platforms as these decades-old IT systems bog down management, flexibility, and agility with their tightly entangled components. Platform development includes design, coding, testing, securing, and deploying. No platform is a fire-and-forget type of affair.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Once, over beers late into the evening in an old European pub not far from his office, an executive shared with me his personal Agile mindset transformation journey. It is an account that I have found representative of many when they begin to lead Business Agility transformation. But first, some background. Martin demanded.

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The Crazy Programmer

OCTOBER 17, 2021

What’s interesting is that most of these startups often fail due to hiring the wrong people, disharmony among team members, poor quality product or service, interrupted internal communication, not being customer-focused, and inability to deliver products on time. Enhanced Communication Among Teams.

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OverOps

OCTOBER 14, 2018

DevOps and Agile Methodology: Lessons Learned [PRO3964]. Is Boilerplate Code Really So Bad? Venkat Subramaniam , President, Agile Developer, Inc. No matter how quickly or slowly code moves through development or how diligent your testing is, some issues will only surface in production when real data is involved.

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Ivanti

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Legacy cybersecurity systems – many designed over a decade ago – fail to account for the new breed of attacker capabilities and vulnerabilities – nor for the reliance on human configuration that is the Achilles heel of so much software. Secure by Design principles stress embedded security throughout software design and development.

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Tenable

DECEMBER 20, 2024

North Korea reportedly uses the money to fund its weapons-development efforts. in 2022 and updated it in 2023 with more due diligence recommendations for employers to avoid falling for the scam. The NCIRP aims to provide a flexible, agile, coherent and repeatable framework for how the U.S.

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CIO

JULY 21, 2023

As SaaS solutions gain greater market share, and build mindshare, operational know-how is becoming critical to both their development and evolution. One of the biggest issues for any development team is obtaining real and timely user feedback. Traditional development approaches can also cause lengthy release cycles.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Tell them that the role of ScrumMaster is as a servant-leader, coach, and facilitator, navigating the dynamics of the team to ensure Scrum practices are followed and value is delivered effectively. Servant Leadership: prioritizing the needs of the team and helping others to perform as highly as possible. What do you actually do ?”

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2023

She says she and other CIOs must know and understand what’s in the environment , and they must be able to identify what’s where so that their IT teams can strategically plant alongside and on top of it. We in [information systems technology] have a better understanding of how the organization works than people think,” he says.

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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2019

When I first attended Scrummaster training, I went in wide-eyed and excited to learn all of the secrets behind this amazing “new” agile project-management strategy called Scrum. But my employer had just paid for me to go through the training, and I was expected to help improve their development processes.

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Accenture

DECEMBER 5, 2019

What is Agile Transformation? Agile Transformation Strategy. Agile Transformation Roadmap. Waterfall to Agile Transformation. How to Ensure a Successful Agile Transformation. Agile Transformation Coaches. What is Agile Transformation? With Agile, you aren’t baking a cake; you’re starting a movement.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2022

IT complexity, seen in spiraling IT infrastructure costs, multi-cloud frameworks that require larger teams of software engineers, the proliferation of data capture and analytics, and overlapping cybersecurity applications, is the hallmark—and also the bane—of the modern enterprise. 81% believe that reducing it creates a competitive advantage.

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Openxcell

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Software Development Life Cycle – Overview. SDLC stands for Software Development Life Cycle. System engineers and developers use them to plan for, design, build, test, and deliver information systems. Software Development Life Cycle is slightly complicated but very substantial.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Invest in Agility.

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James Shore

JANUARY 19, 2019

One of the pernicious problems in large-scale software development is cross-team coordination. Most large-scale Agile methods focus on product and portfolio coordination, but there's a harder problem out there: coordinating the engineering work. Different teams can be assigned to work on different parts of the program.

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The Programmer's Paradox

MARCH 16, 2023

When the Agile Manifesto came out 20 years ago, I really liked what it said. Startups were quite agile long before the manifesto used that term. Over the decades as I watched the Agile movement mature, I was often fairly vocal about what I thought were mistakes in its direction. Then you are truly agile. Is everything ok?

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. How to Be Agile.

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CIO

JULY 24, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, agility is no longer just a buzzword — it’s a business imperative. This dynamic framework offers CIOs a powerful tool to continually optimize their technology portfolios, ensuring their organizations remain agile, efficient, and future-ready.

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CIO

OCTOBER 2, 2023

When I was a CIO in meetings where someone was unmotivated or in a bad mood, I’d just launch a Kinder Surprise at them. Months later, when Friedman asked for an extra $400K to overhaul the manufacturing firm’s PLM system — an unbudgeted expenditure the CFO strongly opposed — she had the support of other business leaders in the room.

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CircleCI

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

People would visit libraries and interact with paper, index card-based cataloging systems to retrieve materials and then physically open the magazine, newspaper, or book to extract the information they desired. My software development experience went a little something like this: Write code in isolation. Code reviews were very rare.

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