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BSE Testing Use Mind Maps to Increase Team Velocity and Communication
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Ever sit in a strategy review session and get little or no participation from others? Or feel like you left a planning session with a different understanding of what was agreed to? If you feel there must be a more effective way to communicate important information around your strategy and...
Jennifer Bonine
BSE Testing Fail Smart, Not Just Fast: Use Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
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You’re a professional project manager or ScrumMaster. Your software development projects never fail because you follow all the best practices. Right? We all know better. Unfortunately, many projects fail, and they fail due to issues outside the team's control. The reality is that we need...
Rob Keefer
BSE Testing A Business-First Approach to DevOps Implementation
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DevOps is a cultural shift aimed at streamlining intergroup communication and improving operational efficiency for development and operations groups. Over time, inclusion of other IT groups under the DevOps umbrella has become the norm for many organizations. But even broadening the...
Leon Fayer
BSE Development Intelligent Software Development, Courtesy of Intelligent Software
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The machine learning age is well underway. Today’s software can see novel patterns that humans are unable to see and improve task performance based on experience. Learning algorithms are widely used for varied purposes, including loan approval, intrusion detection, fraud prevention, risk...
Stephen Frein
BSE Testing Risk Aware, Not Risk Averse
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Most of us dread failures. But things go wrong. We can become paralyzed by the fear of being the creator of the next outage or critical bug. After a failure, we often hold a postmortem, but this rarely addresses how we can be more proactive in preventing catastrophes. Considering our...
Siva Katir
BSE Testing A Lean Tour of Lean Software Development
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Lean software development has been described as “better, faster, cheaper” and focused on “eliminating waste,” but those are misnomers. Going after speed improvement and waste elimination can actually reduce the benefits you might otherwise get from lean. Ken Pugh describes what lean...
Ken Pugh
BSE Testing Resolve the Contradiction of Specialists within Agile Teams
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As teams grow, organizations often draw a distinction between feature teams, which deliver the visible business value to the user, and component teams, which manage shared work. Steve Berczuk says that this distinction can help organizations be more productive and scale effectively, but he...
Steve Berczuk
BSE Development You Might Be an Agile Leader If...
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In case you haven’t heard, the leadership landscape has been changing—and continues to change—to keep up with the accelerating pace of business. And agile development has been an incubator of new leadership approaches. It has introduced or fostered many innovative concepts...
Bob Galen
BSE Testing Microservices and Docker at Scale: The PB&J of Modern Systems
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After predominantly being used in the build/test stage, Docker has matured and is expanding into production deployment. Similarly, microservices are expanding from greenfield web services to use throughout the enterprise as organizations explore ways to decompose their monolithic systems...
Anders Wallgren
BSE Testing My Dad Won’t Buy Me a DevOps
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Many IT managers find themselves banging their heads against a wall trying to get upper management to invest in DevOps. Managers see clear opportunities to implement it into their organizations but get a No from senior executives. Many managers are frustrated that, despite all the...
T.j. Randall

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