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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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How Agile Meetings Impact Arousal Levels and Team Productivity

Apiumhub

In Agile environments, maintaining focus is crucial to achieving optimal performance, especially in complex tasks like software development. In this article, we will analyze how arousal levels affect high-focus tasks and how constant interruptions, such as meetings, play in this process.

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20 years working on the same software product

Successful Software

I released version 1 of my table seating planning software , PerfectTablePlan, in February 2005. It’s success is due to a lot of hard work, and a certain amount of dumb luck. I looked around for some software to help me. There were a couple of software packages, but I wasn’t impressed. 20 years ago this month.

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision. Leverage any production issue as a reason to “pull the brakes” Introduce very complex processes for code change and common workflows. Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.

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Finding a New Software Developer Job

Henrik Warne

For the first time ever, I was laid off, and had to find a new software developer job. It’s quite good, but I didn’t use it much, because I wanted to make sure I did all coding by myself at interviews. For the remote ones, all interviews were naturally on Zoom/Meet/Teams. Here is what I learnt from the process.

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GitHub Copilot – Change the Narrative

Xebia

Currently there is a lot of focus on the engineers that can produce code easier and faster using GitHub Copilot. Eventually this path leads to disappointment: either the code does not work as hoped, or there was crucial information missing and the AI took a wrong turn somewhere. Use what works for your application.

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The future of data: A 5-pillar approach to modern data management

CIO

This article proposes a methodology for organizations to implement a modern data management function that can be tailored to meet their unique needs. By modern, I refer to an engineering-driven methodology that fully capitalizes on automation and software engineering best practices. However, there is good news for smaller companies.

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