Making the Most of Your DevOps: A Slack Takeover with Gene GotimerThought leaders from the software community are taking over the TechWell Hub to answer questions and engage in conversations. Gene Gotimer, a senior architect at Coveros, hosted this Slack takeover and discussed all things DevOps, including whether you can have DevOps without agile and how you can reap all its benefits.
3 Ways Leaders Can Change a Blame CultureIf your organization has a blame culture, team members get discouraged and mistrust leaders. It focuses on pointing fingers, not coming up with solutions to move forward. To increase trust, inspire creativity, and nurture a generative culture with your team, here are three things leaders can do instead of placing blame.
The Layers in the Test Automation JourneyTest automation is not just a bunch of automated scripts to be written and handed off. The scripting process, though important, is just an inner layer embedded deep within the whole. There are several more layers that are important in showcasing the true value of the automated scripts. You need to understand all layers.
Making a Game out of Building an Amazing TeamGames are a cost-effective and efficient way to evaluate, assess, and thus hire people with the right expertise and aptitude. It is an equally practical and powerful way to continue to develop and improve the team and individual team members. Try using games to improve your efforts to build and maintain an outstanding team.
Comparing Ruby and PHPRuby and PHP are both open source languages, and both are ranked in the top 20 of the TIOBE index for most popular programming languages. If you want to learn a new language and are trying to decide between these two, let’s explore common differences in syntax and constructs to discover which may be more useful for you.
2 Familiar Problems for Software DevelopersIn the quest for writing good code and delivering the right thing to customers, developers have several challenges. But most of them can be boiled down to two main problems: discovering the real scope, and how to do the work. Interestingly, they’re very similar to the problems faced by testers and others in non-dev roles.
How AI and Machine Learning Are Revolutionizing the Manufacturing IndustryManufacturing tasks used to be manual up until the Industrial Revolution. We’re now experiencing another revolution, with technology making processes easier, faster, and more efficient. Today, artificial intelligence and machine learning are automating machine maintenance, optimizing inventory, and even helping out humans.
Why Setting Priorities Is a Core Agile PracticeEvery aspect of agile includes prioritization. The most important user stories are implemented first. Testing is prioritized to make sure features valued by customers are tested the most. Even everyday tasks are prioritized during daily standups. Here are three reasons setting priorities is essential to success in agile.
