Evaluating Team Health in Agile and DevOpsThe importance of the human element in delivering great software is sometimes overlooked, as is the relationship between team health and team performance.

It seems to defy all logic, but the best programmers have two usually undesirable traits: They’re lazy and dumb. That’s the point of a classic post by web developer and blogger Philipp Lenssen that I ...

Most of the advice on meetings concerns how to run them. But what about when you’re attending the meeting rather than running it, and the meeting is endless or boring? Certainly, it can help to stay ...

Collaboration is a key part of how agile teams work. Quite often, to work effectively to meet commitments in a self-organizing, cross-functional team, you need to be creative as well. While teams can ...

Behavior-driven development (BDD) and keywords are both widely used techniques to facilitate automated testing. The approaches are similar in that tests can be written in a business-readable, ...

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Let’s agree that it is irrational to assume that we can completely define the requirements of a complex system upfront. Few sane practitioners would suggest that was ever an option. I’ve heard some ...

One of the most intriguing aspects of software architecture is trying to bring structure to areas that can’t be structured easily. Whenever an architect designs a system, service, or feature, they are ...

Amazon made headlines recently with its new patent for an anticipatory shipping model. The model predicts what users would likely buy, when they would buy it, and where they would need it. Amazon ...

As technology advances at an exponential rate, the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in software quality assurance (SQA) has become increasingly prominent. From automating mundane tasks to ...

From time to time, large mission-critical data systems require significant upgrades, or even outright replacement—imagine changing ERP or financial system vendors ...

Some people don’t like plans. To them, plans feel too rigid, too restrictive, too inflexible. These people don’t like to be boxed in, tied down, or locked up. Of course, there’s a difference between ...