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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

CIO

Last summer, a faulty CrowdStrike software update took down millions of computers, caused billions in damages, and underscored that companies are still not able to manage third-party risks, or respond quickly and efficiently to disruptions. Its worth doing that extra step of diligence because it can save you problems down the road, she says.

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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower CTO

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. What does a business leader do in this situation?

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Why Testing is No Longer Sufficient for Today’s Software Delivery Pipelines

OverOps

The move to innovate at speed and scale is stressing software quality and exposing the limitations of testing. Don’t get me wrong – testing in all its forms is inseparable from the software delivery supply chain. Over a decade ago, when Test-Driven Development (TDD) was introduced, it promised to improve productivity and quality.

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Agentic AI design: An architectural case study

CIO

Let’s review a case study and see how we can start to realize benefits now. As we reviewed the requirements, asked more questions, understood all the non-functional requirements and had a more in-depth discussion about how many times the data files would be generated, we settled on a new design.

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Team Leadership in the Age of Agile

Speaker: Roy Osherove, Technology and Leadership Consultant

As a senior software leader, you spend much of your time trying to optimize your team's performance – from increasing delivery rate and velocity to reducing defect rates and waste. To do this, you've learned a wide variety of techniques and methodologies - SCRUM, Kanban, TDD, DevOps, self-organized teams, and much more.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: No-code MVP strategy, hiring under scrutiny, A/B growth testing

TechCrunch

While building looks extremely attractive in the long run, it requires leadership with a strong appetite for risk over an extended time period,” writes ML engineer Tanmay Chopra. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members.

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

Leverage any production issue as a reason to “pull the brakes” Introduce very complex processes for code change and common workflows. Disallow anything outside the scope of the original task, such as code cleanup or other drive-by improvements. The lyrics are mostly about technology leadership and developer productivity.

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Data-Driven Performance Feedback Helps Teams Improve Customer Outcomes

Speaker: Mickey Mantle, Founder and CEO at Wanderful Interactive Storybooks | Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Author, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.

In order to be successful at delivering software, organizations need to become data-driven. Teams and their leadership need to leverage data to achieve better customer outcomes. Data-driven performance reviews help to align employee goals and team goals with company goals. How data-driven performance reviews do that.