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5 Can’t-Miss Talks and Workshops to Attend at QCon NYC

OverOps

QCon NYC is an international software development conference for senior software engineers and architects. It’s the conference professional developers have been attending for the past 8 years to find out what the world’s most innovative software shops are using. In 2018, poor quality software cost U.S. companies an estimated $2.84

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Responsible Tech Playbook

Martin Fowler

Those of us developing software don’t need to be told what a big impact it’s had on humanity this century. The playbook is a free PDF download of about 50 slides, the bulk of which is a summary of a dozen tools and methods that teams can use to better understand their responsibilities.

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Mending the rift between business stakeholders and development teams

Xebia

In today’s business world, the synergy between stakeholders, product management and development teams are paramount. Customer’s problem At one of our major clients at Xebia customers complained, that the project velocity was inconsistent, while the development team seemed perpetually busy.

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Bliki: OutcomeOverOutput

Martin Fowler

Imagine a team writing software for a shopping website. If we look at the team's output, we might consider how many new features they produced in the last quarter, or a cross-functional measure such as a reduction in page load time. I've always been of the opinion that outcome is what we should concentrate on.

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Primer, the fintech helping merchants consolidate the payments stack, raises £14M Series A

TechCrunch

Instead, the team was heads down building out the product and wooing potential customers by holding technical workshops and in-depth interviews over Zoom with 100 merchants — activity that didn’t go unnoticed. Primer says the additional funding will be used for international business development and scaling its team.

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Mecho Autotech gets $2.15M to expand vehicle maintenance and repair services in Nigeria

TechCrunch

The company, in a statement, said it will use the capital “to expand its multi-channel service capacity, engineering team, and marketing budget for B2C acquisition.”. So what we did was create a network of vetted technicians across 35 states out in Nigeria to tackle the poor vehicle maintenance culture in Nigeria,” he said. “We

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The Good and the Bad of.NET Framework Programming

Altexsoft

NET is a software development framework and ecosystem designed and supported by Microsoft to allow for easy desktop and web application engineering. Also, in 2016, Microsoft acquired Xamarin, previously a proprietary technology for cross-platform mobile development, making it open source as well. But that’s not all.