Testsigma

DECEMBER 23, 2021

And a thought arises: what would you give your software tester friend as a gift, if you were the secret Santa. The Complete Software Tester: Concepts, Skills, and Strategies for High-Quality Testing by Kristin Jackvony. A Practitioner’s Guide to Software Test Design by Lee Copeland. Mosley and Bruce A. Awesome Memberships.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 1, 2022

You can find out more about that here: [link] This kata is based on content from my workshops. This kata is split into four sections that address different aspects of architecting software systems. I’ve used it a few times now and it seems to have worked well so I thought it would be good to share.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Automation was a hot topic at the event and Dynatrace had the opportunity to host a workshop “Building Autonomous Operations for Pivotal Platform with Keptn”. The workshop taught best practices that companies can look toward to automate more of their environment and tame and better manage the complexity.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

For example, security concerns and unreliability becoming commonplace, like the recent Southwest Airlines scheduling crisis caused by a decades-old scheduling system. They are also a vital step toward defining the Kickstarter workshop. AMET designs and facilitates the Kickstarter Workshop.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The value stream management (VSM) market continues to grow at an exponential rate as enterprises recognize that they need to deliver higher quality software faster to compete in today’s world. Last week, a new research paper by GigaOm analyst, Jon Collins, named Tasktop as a leader in value stream management in software delivery.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 28, 2020

As VSM becomes the de facto way to master software delivery at scale and closes the feedback loop between IT and the business, leadership and their teams are crying out for more visibility into their software delivery and its role in their digital journey. Get Software Delivery trends and insights in your inbox. A leading U.S

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 22, 2020

While it’s a crucial shift in approaching IT and enterprise software delivery to accelerate market response and adaptability, it’s also a journey. When it comes to software delivery, there are many activities and siloed metrics. Edwards Deming, to improve the system you need to get outside the system.

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Tasktop

JULY 1, 2021

Software delivery is all about delivering more customer value faster to remain competitive in the digital-first world. Value Stream Management and Flow Metrics: Measure The Whole System. What units of value are flowing across the system . How the system is delivering value to the customer.

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Tasktop

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Inevitably there will be a cultural shift, especially when you consider all the moving parts: the software delivery teams, the product owners, the multiple business lines. Apply systems thinking to scale learnings across the organization. The role of systems thinking. Empowering your teams that create value.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

There is no way to model how much more traffic you can send to that system before it exceeds it’s SLA. This is unfortunate, because we’d really like to be able to build systems that have an SLA that we can share with the consumers of our interfaces, and be able to measure how well we are doing.

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Tasktop

JULY 7, 2021

In addition to a generous fitness allowance program , the company is also working with a third party to provide teams with online mental health classes and workshops. Senior Systems Administrator, Michelle Santos, embraced a different type of cloud at Golden Ears Provincial Park in BC. How did Tasktopians Recharge?

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

One of the challenges I see regularly is inertia following domain discovery workshops. In companies with many teams and many millions of lines of code, including a lot of legacy, there are endless things that can be improved in the product, software, and organization. Why Thing Get Stuck After Discovery?

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Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2022

My participation at these conferences is a mixture of talks and workshops. I’ve used Miro exclusively for my in-person workshops and talks, and I plan to for all upcoming events. Miro for In-person Workshops? At NDC Porto 2022, I teamed up with Maxime Sanglan-Charlier to run our 2 hour software architecture-themed workshop.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Today, we’ll take a look at the best ways to use colors in a design system, and what we can expect from our colors in the not-too-distant future. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Michelle Barker.

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O'Reilly Software

MAY 15, 2018

IBM's Daniel Berg, who is giving a talk on Istio at the upcoming OSCON conference in Portland , recently led a hands-on workshop at KubeCon in Copenhagen to help developers learn how Istio can solve common challenges with microservices deployed within Kubernetes. Developers at the "Istio Hands-on Workshop" at KubeCon in Copenhagen.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

They introduced the architecture of coarse grain reconfigurable array (CGRA) for statically scheduled data flow computing in HOTCHIPS’17 and its software stack of compiler and linker in ICCAD’17. The new DGX-2, which achieves 2 petaFLOPS in the system, combines 16 fully interconnected GPUS with 10x the deep learning performance.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

That happens when your app/website/system is efficient. 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 ?. And vice versa. And memorable.

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Tasktop

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

However, the point of this article, for those of us working to apply value stream management (VSM) to the complex world of enterprise software delivery, is that our clutter, our messy closet, our equivalent of a scattershot workshop exists in our work in progress (WIP). Get Software Delivery trends and insights in your inbox.

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Tasktop

MARCH 11, 2020

At Tasktop, our mission is to help enterprises and governments catalyze the shift from Project to Product , enabling them to innovate, survive and thrive in the Age of Software. The power of innovations in how software is built, packaged into new kinds of tools, came to define the rest of my career. .

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Developing software is becoming easier as frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular become the go-to solution for creating even the simplest applications. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. More after jump!

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Tasktop

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

However, the point of this article, for those of us working to apply value stream management (VSM) to the complex world of enterprise software delivery, is that our clutter, our messy closet, our equivalent of a scattershot workshop exists in our work in progress (WIP). Get Software Delivery trends and insights in your inbox.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is also one of the people behind Perch , a PHP content management system (CMS). Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” She works directly with organizations to build clear and coherent products and design systems. Rick Byers.

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O'Reilly Software

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Thoughtful and effective decision-making was a key trend at the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in Berlin 2019. The ability to make good decisions might be the most important aspect of a software architecture practitioner’s job. Every day.every week.every month, you make critical architectural decisions. Not to worry!

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Tasktop

DECEMBER 19, 2019

This weekend, I was watching the movie Elf and it got me thinking – how does Santa’s Workshop keep up with the demands of a booming population? I knew that if I wanted to figure out how to improve the flow of value through Santa’s Workshop I would need a visual. Santa’s Workshop Value Stream Architecture Diagram.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2021

If we accept the fact that Agile is a value system and not a set of mechanical processes, it stands to reason that there must be something different about the norms and behaviors of Agile managers vis-a-vis traditional managers. Create and adapt the mechanical processes and social systems through which the team gets things done.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 19, 2020

STELLA: report from the SNAFU-catchers workshop on coping with complexity , Woods 2017, Coping with Complexity workshop. “Coping with complexity” is about as good a three-word summary of the systems and software challenges facing us over the next decade as I can imagine. Workshop context.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

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. Three days into the inception, we were frustrated that the workshops had ending up with incomplete and unsatisfactory levels of detail.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 25, 2022

NoOps is a concept in software development that seeks to automate processes and eliminate the need for an extensive IT operations team. Organizations adopt DevOps, where developers and operations work together in a continuous loop, so they can develop software and resolve issues efficiently before they affect users. What is NoOps?

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Domain-Driven Design is an approach to designing systems, usually software, that emphasises creating a common language between domain experts and system builders. Here’s an example I use in talks and workshops: How to group these concepts into domains? Domains are subjective and they are not mutually exclusive.

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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. You can also experiment with various workshop formats. Some companies talk about modernizing for years before they make a serious commitment.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

Loosely-coupled teams enabled by loosely-coupled software architecture is one of the strongest predictors of continuous delivery performance and organizational scaling. Decoupling Streams of Work Our goal when designing systems is to maximise the speed of delivery and value of the work we deliver.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 3, 2021

Mapping out your business’s domain landscape has many benefits: knowledge sharing, generating product ideas, providing the foundation for software architecture, aligning on requirements, but a common challenge is… “where do we start?” The following steps are my baseline format for a series of discovery workshops.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

Just like visually-abled users don’t read every word on a page but scan for interesting things, blind screen reader users don’t make their software read each and every word. Continue reading below ↓ Deep-dive into front-end accessibility with Carie Fisher in her upcoming Smashing workshop on Accessible Front-End Patterns.

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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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The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2014

"Increasing numbers of people who had formerly been self-employed in workshops and cottage industry, often on a subcontracting basis, assumed new roles as part of an emerging wage-earning class. There have been many attempts to create large, lesser-skilled, secondary labor forces that supplement a core primary one in software development.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

In his upcoming online workshop The TypeScript Masterclass , Stefan Baumgartner will dive into type systems and how to use them well when writing JavaScript. Jump to the workshop ?. If you are launching a large-scale system, it’s important to perform email app load testing. Online, and live. August 5–19, 2021.

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Tasktop

JUNE 18, 2019

The three-day event is jam-packed full of keynotes, breakouts, workshops (and, not to mention, parties!) We are more excited than ever to share how Tasktop can solve your DevOps transformation woes by going beyond CI/CD and adopting an end-to-end value stream approach to software delivery. Networking is almost always priceless.

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