Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

One of the challenges I see regularly is inertia following domain discovery workshops. Some complexity we embrace because there is an opportunity to differentiate, whereas some complexity is providing little or no value and is simply making our systems more complex and expensive to maintain. It’s also possible to exchange complexity.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Acknowledging the myriad challenges posed by existing development processes and disconnected toolchains in scaling software innovation, the GigaOm Radar for Value Stream Management report provides further guidance on the necessary capabilities to successfully adopt this critical practice required to be successful in the Age of Software. .

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

Martin Fowler argues that internal quality of a software system enables new features and improvements to be delivered more sustainably. Spread Domain Expertise Design is more than generic technical patterns that can be applied to almost software system. Both valuing design and striving for continuous delivery are necessary.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Whatever your industry, structure, methodology, tooling or processes, the Flow Framework provides a clear blueprint for practicing VSM in software delivery. A telecom giant changing its outsourcing strategy to negotiate better terms with its service partners. A leading U.S healthcare leader doubling its feature velocity.

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Dynatrace

MAY 9, 2022

For IT teams seeking agility, cost savings, and a faster on-ramp to innovation, a cloud migration strategy is critical. But, as resources move off premises, IT teams often lack visibility into system performance and security issues. Define the strategy, assess the environment, and perform migration-readiness assessments and workshops.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). In this article, we’ll take a deep dive into the refactoring process itself, and cover incremental refactoring strategy, visual regression testing, and maintaining the refactored codebase.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 22, 2020

With the right set of business-centric metrics that focus on the flow of work across the product value stream, IT and business leaders can leverage objective real-time data to identify the bottlenecks slowing them down, inform investment strategy, and measure the impact of changes to steer them in the right direction. To paraphrase W.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The reason we pay so much attention to design (as we do to any other detail in the process of project completion) is that it plays one of the crucial roles in your business success. That happens when your app/website/system is efficient. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?. And vice versa.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The Complete Software Tester: Concepts, Skills, and Strategies for High-Quality Testing by Kristin Jackvony. It is quite an interesting blog that compares archery with testing and provides clarity about the testing process. They hold the power to transform vision, mindset, beliefs, and life. A new level of Testing by Huib Schoots.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Unfortunately, there aren’t any special systems to provide custom statically generated pages for different wildcard subdomains like you may with dynamic routing for example (where you have [slug].js Jump to the workshop ?. Now that we’ve explored the theory of this strategy, let’s explore how we put it into practice. split(".")[0];

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

Binder, she notes, “was widely used last year for teaching workshops and tutorials at many Python conferences.” Will the incremental strategy of delivering pattern matching and algebraic data types ( Project Amber ) pay off? Will Quarkus bear out its promise and the faith of its early fans?

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

There aren't a lot of high cards we can draw, but playing them in the right combination offers us a strategy. There are people behind the systems to which we're bound today. Ten years ago, I was leading an inception for a company replacing their fleet maintenance systems. Why not put them back on the payroll?

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Maximiliano Firtman. Maximiliano Firtman.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 13, 2018

The web standards process fails us too often. It also described the ecosystem dynamics that make change difficult, even before considering the varying firm-level strategies of browser vendors. The norms of standards organisations are set, largely, by social cohesion amongst those working to improve the systems they maintain.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If you facilitate or attend domain discovery workshops, one of the most effective and simplest ways to uncover insights is to make the scale or size of something explicit. For example, are we talking about a manual process performed by one employee or one thousand employees? and “How long does it take?” How Often Does this Happen?

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Typically, there’s a period where modernization is discussed as the pains of legacy systems and/or ways of working are noticed and become ever more prominent, blocking the business strategy. Some companies talk about modernizing for years before they make a serious commitment. We informally call this the Noticing stage.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?. It also can be used during the conception and design process using excerpts of the checklist.

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O'Reilly Software

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

He pointed out that culture, process, organizational structure, systems architecture, and the physical plant are very much intertwined, and a determination to change any of those five elements means that all of them have to adapt. After each team presented its strategy, a panel of judges selected the winning team. Not to worry!

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. In this article, we’re going to cover CSS optimization strategies that can optimize CSS file size, loading times, and render performance. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

This means that any time-consuming task, such as complex calculations or data processing that is executed, would block the main thread and cause the UI to freeze and become unresponsive. Web Workers are designed to perform tasks that do not require direct access to the UI, such as data processing, image manipulation, or calculations.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

There is also the matter of convincing the management or project stakeholders to invest the time and resources into the refactoring process. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Jump to online workshops ?.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

During the 90s, we saw two content management systems for static sites — Microsoft FrontPage in 1996 and Macromedia Dreamweaver in 1997. These desktop applications incremented the tooling an inch closer to the modern Jamstack content management systems of today. Jump to the workshop ?. Online, and live.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 18, 2019

As software testing plays a significant role in the delivery of the final product, it is necessary to consider that the testing process must involve accurate, exhaustive test cases and firm test strategy. Before enacting your automation strategy, create a training document and have multiple meetings and workshops.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

To humanize the decision-making process and get executives and colleagues on board by showing them what struggles are faced on a daily basis by disabled users using inaccessible products. Design systems should be used not only to ensure branding and consistency, but accessibility, inclusivity, and understanding of code better.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

There is a high cost associated with work that leaves your team… team boundaries and software boundaries should be isomorphic” — James Lewis, Thoughtworks I’ve written and spoken a lot about architecting sociotechnical systems and how to find boundaries. And there’s more research to back it up.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 18, 2018

There are thousands of ways we can shape the software systems we build and organise our teams around them. Sociotechnical systems are complex systems formed of complex systems. The products themselves are software systems which grow harder and harder to reason about as they scale and age.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 3, 2021

You may find that other approaches work better for you, and in reality every workshop is different so you need to be flexible. The following steps are my baseline format for a series of discovery workshops. Step 1: Find the Value Exchange In Escaping the Build Trap , Melissa Perri talks about the system of value exchange.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Ethics are an important part of human-computer interaction because they keep people at the heart of the design process. For example, try and recall the last time your team’s processes were audited for compliance against the company’s ethical standards. As UX practitioners, we know empathy is an important part of the design process.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The key to loose coupling is to understand how the system you are building is going to change, and minimising the cost of those changes. Items in the inventory can be temporarily borrowed by other bounded contexts in the system by being checked out and checked back in again. It knows if they are available or checked out.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

So, in essence, it’s a way to automate the tedious process of hitting ‘copy’ and then ‘paste’ 200 times. Scraping those product pages can net you invaluable data such as: The competitors’ pricing strategy. Jump to the workshop ?. They are slightly different, but in the end, the process is pretty similar. Online, and live.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

Let’s take a look at what some of these testing strategies look like in practice. If I’m writing an end-to-end test, I would capture that entire process, i.e. from finding a product on a product listing page to paying for that item. Jump to the workshop ?. Unit Testing. cy.visit('/products'); cy.get('.product click() cy.url().should('contain',

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Or perhaps there is no mistake on our end at all, and it’s a system bug that’s absolutely out of our control. When large parts of the interface are disabled , most customers will assume that the system is busy , and some process is happening in the background on the page. Or we’ve overlooked some fine print somewhere.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The result is that we create better designed software systems and teams of problem solvers rather than order takers. In this article, we’ll share a few easy-to-learn techniques that will help you to get the most out of EventStorming so you can design more domain-aligned software systems. Then model each of these processes?—?look

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

For a recent technical workshop I did with one of our strategic cloud partners, I created a deck that aims to answer exactly this question. Before starting any migration project, you must have a good overview of all your hosts, processes, services and technologies. Step 2: Understand your Dependencies: No Host or Process left alone!

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

As discussed in part 2 , in HTTP/2, this multiplexing is steered using its prioritization system. As we also saw, however, this system was very complex , causing it to often be badly used and implemented in practice (see the image below). There is ongoing work to improve this two-step Alt-Svc process somewhat.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In the real world we can be vague about our business rules and processes. If someone from a different culture with a different naming convention cannot be served by a system, it’s not good business or publicity. Consider the scenario of an appointment scheduling system for a healthcare practice. the transaction?—?will

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

The build process on its own has become quite a beast over time as well, with critical CSS injects, Webpack’s code splitting, dynamic inserts of advertising and feature panels, RSS (re)generation, and eventual A/B testing on the edge. Throughout the workshop, I was diligently taking notes and revisiting the codebase.

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