Martin Fowler
MARCH 1, 2018
Ham completes his article on showing how to use test pyramid in practice by looking at acceptance tests and exploratory testing. He also finishes with a few words on pipelines and the need to avoid duplication in testing between the layers of the pyramid.
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
You’re working hard to build a Winning Well culture. You’ve identified your MIT leadership competencies and are working to cultivate and encourage the right behaviors. How you staff your key leadership roles matters more now than ever. How will you identify the […]. The post How to Interview For Winning Leadership Competencies appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
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Women on Business
MARCH 1, 2018
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CTOvision
MARCH 2, 2018
One hundred percent of board of directors and other executive leaders I interact with know of the blockchain. Not all are fans of cryptocurrency, but all seem to be deeply interested in exploring the business impact of the distributed ledger that makes cryptocurrencies work. There are quite a few interesting use cases out there. Some […].
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Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format. To better understand the factors behind the decision to build or buy analytics, insightsoftware partnered with Hanover Research to survey IT, software development, and analytics professionals on why they make the embedded analytics choices they do.
Martin Fowler
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
The whole point of the test pyramid is to remind us that broad scope tests should be rare, since they are usually expensive and slow. Rareness isn't the same as absence, so now Ham takes a look at role of UI tests and end-to-end testing in general.
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Women on Business
FEBRUARY 24, 2018
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Toptal
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
UX designers must understand the needs and goals of potential users, their tasks, and context of use. User research will shape and define the guidelines for creating a product with great user experience.
N2Growth Blog
FEBRUARY 24, 2018
To succeed in today’s rough and tumble business world you need a solid vision for how you can “digitalize” your business. Indeed, it is not enough to have a vivid and compelling business strategy. We must be able to discern what role we are expecting digital technology to play within the business. It is only with this understanding that we can establish the necessary linkages required to inform digital technology direction-setting.
Scott Berkun
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
On Tuesdays, I write about the top voted question on Ask Berkun (see the lovely archive ). This week’s question came via email from Pavel Pavia [43 votes]: Are engineers more creative than designers? Both answers (“Yes they are!” and “No they are not!”) are naive. It’s foolish to compare massive groups of people against each other especially around a sloppy word like creativity.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Terry Starbucker
FEBRUARY 25, 2018
Over the course of a long leadership journey you occasionally get to experience one of those extraordinary days that you remember, and draw on as a valuable lesson, for the rest of your business life. This is the story of one of those days. Back in 2009 when I was SVP of Operations with Bresnan Communications, I was in Butte, Montana for a morning staff meeting with the front office staff and field technicians.
Toptal
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
Grocery delivery startup Instacart has recently been valued at $4.2 billion. In this article, Finance Expert Patrick Gaffney works backwards and uses some basic assumptions to determine if the valuation is reasonable. With companies opting to stay private for longer, analyzing private companies in this way can help us better understand industries typically shrouded in secrecy and provide clarity on the efficacy of certain business models.
Akana
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
The technical implications of complying to the PSD2 standard and how APIs can help. The post PSD2 & Open Banking: The technical implications appeared first on API Management Blog - Akana.
Women on Business
MARCH 2, 2018
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IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d
Abstracta - Software Development
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
Putting to bed your fears about outsourcing software testing and QA once and for all Have you turned your back on the idea of outsourcing your software testing and QA (what we prefer to call quality engineering)? Maybe it was brought up once during a meeting. The post [Infographic] 6 Software Testing Outsourcing Myths Debunked appeared first on Abstracta Software Testing Services.
Toptal
MARCH 1, 2018
Traditionally confined to the realms of insurance and pensions, actuaries are now branching out into the wider business world. The long-termist and statistical approach of actuarial science makes it an invaluable tool for recurring income businesses. This article looks at how, showing examples of usage within customer lifetime value and human resources.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
Can you believe it is already the 5th anniversary of the K-12 STEM Symposium? This event, coordinated by WashingtonExec's JD Kathuria, has been a fantastic connector of great employers who are interested in creating a future of abundance for all and STEM students K-12. This year promises to be even more incredible than past years, […].
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
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“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.
CollabNet VersionOne
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
CollabNet reached out to its global audience at the end of last year and conducted an industry survey to learn more about DevOps priorities and the concerns of executive leaders, project managers, engineers and other software development and testing professionals. We asked more than 200 respondents, primarily from Fortune 2000 organizations, a few questions to better understand how we could serve their needs.
Toptal
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Innovative energy companies are deploying blockchain to streamline operations and improve customer experience. Building on our first article, we explore case studies in energy and highlight similar themes and lessons for exploring real-world blockchain applications.
CTOvision
MARCH 1, 2018
Digital transformation is a top priority across organizations of varying sizes and industries as they strive to remain competitive in a market that values speed to market and accessibility of information. As a result, leadership is now – more than ever – looking to the CIO to build a team to effectively usher in digitalization. […].
Loom Systems
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Pink Elephant's ITSM Leadership. Pink Elephant has taken upon itself to help organizations understand and priorities ITSM structures. Pink Elephant award was established by Pink Elephant in 1999, and recognizes individual and corporate commitment to IT excellence and ITSM best practices. ITOps and AI: Maximum Speed. To be eligible for the 'Innovation of the year' award, the innovative product or service must have been launched in 2017 either as an original product/service, or a major new release
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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
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Toptal
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
For a large codebase, managing database schema can become tedious, especially if you maintain multiple testing environments or customers that update the product at different paces. Sometimes, documenting the latest schema or database changes isn't enough. In this article, Toptal Database Engineer Ivan Pavlov introduces us to concepts that help manage database states.
Dzone - DevOps
MARCH 1, 2018
This is Part 2 of the blog series on building microservices with Netflix OSS and Apache Kafka. The first part on installing Apache Kafka in a Docker container is published. Before this, I have also published a blog on Docker, so if anyone wants to take a look at Docker, they can read it here.
CO2 Business Leadership
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
Good question! And the answer is…everything! Even if you don’t consider yourself in the service business. My new book, Jumpstart Your Service Revol ution , has just been launched – and it is chock full of practical examples of how to win an age of disruption. The premise is that almost every company that got into trouble and had their market share challenged – heck, even their very existence put on the line – was sitting in a seemingly stable position.
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As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo
Ron Jeffries
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
To meet the deadline, all the software has to work on that day.
Professor Beekums
FEBRUARY 25, 2018
I recently heard of a situation where a team needs to hire someone since they’re understaffed. The reaction from one of the developers was simply: “I don’t want to maintain their code.” I understand this mentality. The worst code is always other people’s code. For most developers, this is simply fact. What is also fact is that very little software of significance gets built by the lone wolf.
Dzone - DevOps
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Welcome to this edition of the Integration Roundup! Last time, we covered integrating with RESTful APIs, so today we're going to switch gears and broaden our area of focus a little. In this Roundup, we'll be looking at some of the most popular articles on DZone about using Spring in integration projects. And, as a quick side note, if you're interested in writing for DZone, but don't have a topic in mind, come check out our Bounty Board , where you can win prizes for providing great content, and
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