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8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence

TechCrunch

Will your organization and your code pass technical due diligence when it’s your turn? Let’s start with the positives: If an investor is proceeding with technical due diligence (TDD), you’ll likely pass. Here’s the not-so-good news: Companies can pass the business test, but fail TDD.

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AI coding agents come with legal risk

CIO

AI coding agents are poised to take over a large chunk of software development in coming years, but the change will come with intellectual property legal risk, some lawyers say. AI-powered coding agents will be a step forward from the AI-based coding assistants, or copilots, used now by many programmers to write snippets of code.

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AI-native software engineering may be closer than developers think

CIO

Developers unimpressed by the early returns of generative AI for coding take note: Software development is headed toward a new era, when most code will be written by AI agents and reviewed by experienced developers, Gartner predicts. That’s what we call an AI software engineering agent.

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7 ways investors can gain clarity while conducting technical due diligence

TechCrunch

He focuses primarily on investments in software and technology-enabled business services. But when it comes to assessing investment opportunities, few venture and growth equity investors have the resources to conduct thorough technical diligence. The focus of diligence tends to be on aspects of a product that can be measured.

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Decoding Code Review and Pull Requests - a handbook for Software Engineers and Tech Leads

A complete handbook on implementing a code review culture in your organization. Written by Elaine Watanabe, it's a practical e-book with useful examples and references, and a must-read for all tech teams.

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Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants

CIO

Coding assistants have been an obvious early use case in the generative AI gold rush, but promised productivity improvements are falling short of the mark — if they exist at all. Many developers say AI coding assistants make them more productive, but a recent study set forth to measure their output and found no significant gains.

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AI coding assistants wave goodbye to junior developers

CIO

Despite mixed early returns , the outcome appears evident: Generative AI coding assistants will remake how software development teams are assembled, with QA and junior developer jobs at risk. AI will handle the rest of the software development roles, including security and compliance reviews, he predicts. “At

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022.

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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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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. And in the era of agile, which recognizes that software development is a team sport, performance reviews need to use data for programmer growth and to give focus to business results. How data-driven performance reviews do that.

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If You Build It, They Will Come: A Guide to Customer Onboarding

Speaker: Jamie Bernard, Sr. Product Director and Product Management Practice Lead at Nexient, an NTT Data Company

"If you build it, they will come” is an idea that runs rampant in organizations. Creating new software and releasing it into the marketplace to achieve wild success is the dream! In this webinar we will review: The elements of good customer onboarding. Examples of successful product onboarding strategies.