Many organizations plan to create certainty, guarantees of some variety. What if we thought about Agile planning as a way to manage uncertainty?
When I look at long roadmaps with all the "must-do" feature sets and the pressure managers put on teams to commit to delivery, I wonder about this question:
2017 became the Year of Intelligence: the advance of technological achievements has triggered exciting and unexpected trends with wider impact horizons and very promising business prospects. This year we expect drastic exponential changes in every technological direction. Machine learning and artificial intelligence will transform entire industries, making way for virtual helpers and a myriad of cases for automatization. The Internet of Things (IoT) will become more intelligent, uncovering a huge potential for smart homes and smart cities. A more efficient human-machine interaction will become established with natural language replacing specific commands.
In this article, we will focus on the modern trends that took off well on the market by the end of 2017 and discuss the major breakthroughs expected in 2018.
Coding is vital to computers and IT. And I don’t need to be a genius to say or know this. So, what is coding, and why does it occupy a position of such preeminence to this field? Simply put, coding is a set of commands that tells your computer to do what you want it to.
You could see it as something that is told to the computer in a language and way understands it. Since it is a machine, it needs exact prompts, commands and directions to do what you want it to. Carrying this out is what coding encompasses.
At the risk of stating the obvious, we can say that IT has evolved a lot since its beginnings. From mainframe to cloud, a number of steps have been taken, technologies have appeared, and in this context it seems interesting to study the past to try to understand the future. Especially since it seems to us that the architect must and will play an increasingly important role.
We thus see three great eras emerging that we can trace from the inception of what is now called "Enterprise IT."
As the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018 and GitLab’s 2018 Global Developer are making headlines on the web, developers from around the globe are getting a better view of the various trends and practices in software development. Although these reports are informative, they do not accurately reflect the current state of software development within Mainland China.
In response to this information gap, the Alibaba Cloud Developer Community published its very own annual China Developer Survey Report in December 2017. This study featured over 7,000 developers across China and from various industries answering 118 questions. Through the survey, developers shared their perceptions on several topics, including development environment, development language, programming environment, database, integration management tools, and API capacity preference. They also communicated their understanding and practices in multiple technical fields such as web development, front-end development, cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and security.
This is the third in a series of posts exploring Scrum Mastery. In our first post, we introduced the 4 dimensions of Scrum Mastery. In the second post, we explored how to grow a strong team identity. Now we will explore the team process dimension.
Recall that the Scrum Team defines their own process within the boundaries of the Scrum framework. This includes their practices, tools, interactions. This includes how they fulfill the accountabilities of their Scrum roles and how they utilize the artifacts and events.
The overheated IT labor market, where the number of open positions is larger than the number of eligible candidates, demands different approaches when salary is no longer a key advantage in the battle for real IT professionals. Such popular methods of motivation and remuneration as additional leave time, certificates, and other rewards are not enough anymore. Companies have to come up with creative ways to attract new workers and retain them.
Where should one search for IT specialists?
For startups and small businesses, it’s crucial to start using special project management tools early on. However, the price of most tools is barely affordable for a new business. The good news is that a tool with all the necessary functionalities can be cost-efficient! Here is a list of free project management software tools that are great to start working on your projects with.
GanttProject allows you to organize work structure and manage projects in an easy way. Create tasks and break work down in a hierarchical tree, set deadlines, priorities, and milestones, and create dependency constraints between tasks. Set up profiles for system users with basic contact information, pay rates, and roles. Assign them work and monitor their workload.
For startups and small businesses, it’s crucial to start using special project management tools early on. However, the price of most tools is barely affordable for a new business. The good news is that a tool with all the necessary functionalities can be cost-efficient! Here is a list of free project management software tools that are great to start working on your projects with.
GanttProject allows you to organize work structure and manage projects in an easy way. Create tasks and break work down in a hierarchical tree, set deadlines, priorities, and milestones, and create dependency constraints between tasks. Set up profiles for system users with basic contact information, pay rates, and roles. Assign them work and monitor their workload.
It all started when software development teams were physically present in the same office and interacting with each other face-to-face. At that time, this was thought to be the best way to get work done. Not many employees worked remotely. But, that era is long gone. By comparison, most of the organizations today have distributed teams. They ease the burden on project infrastructure and improve the employee’s comfort level.
A good infrastructure cannot have the dependency on only one system or person. Infrastructure needs to be distributed to avoid SPOF (Single Point of Failure). Similarly, it makes more sense to have distributed teams. This helps in a DR (Disaster Recovery) situation and also in hiring talented people without the time or location constraints.
