Software Craftsmanship Software craftsmanship is an ideology, a mindset that building software is a craft just like building beautiful cars, furniture, art, etc.  Initially, craftspeople would need to rely on engineering practices from extreme programming.  Over time they would adapt to newer practices like object oriented design patterns, Service Oriented...

Great Job!! As a facilitator your meeting is going well, the participants have generated new ideas and you have lead them through discussing these ideas. Now it’s time for the meeting to converge and some decisions to be made. How do you build consensus? In many meetings, participants want to...

Value Stream Mapping A company was having challenges with recruiting. It was hard to recruit good people and when they did, they had a huge wait between the offer letter to when the new hire could start with the company. Many times, they would lose someone they hired because some...

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Continuous Testing is challenging. These six best practices can help steer the path For any highly competitive industry that relies on a smooth and stable user experience, it is vital that their development teams accelerate release cycles, lower operating costs and ultimately reduce risks. Continuous testing is one way companies...

If you like to optimize your automated continuous integration pipeline, consider these three best practices. 1. Modular Product Design a. The 12 factor app principles, enables incremental changes to be integrated b. Micro Services Architecture Microservices are composed of autonomous bounded services which communicate via APIs over a distributed network....