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An Assessment of Modern Agile Assessment Tools

Vitality Chicago

Lately I’ve been hearing a lot of buzz about agile assessment tools. Whether it is comparative agility or the AgilityHealth assessment, it seems that people want to be able to measure the relative agility of one or more of their teams. Most agile coaches that I know have developed some form of assessment.

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150+ Top Global Cloud Thought Leaders and Next Generation Leaders of 2021

Whizlabs

Rick is a well experienced CTO who can offer cloud computing strategies and services to reduce IT operational costs and thus improve the efficiency. He guest blogs at Oracle, IBM, HP, SAP, SAGE, Huawei, Commvault, Equinix, Cloudtech. He has hit 3000 blog posts for the AWS blog in 2018. Maximiser, Miller Heiman and more.

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What’s Worse Than Not Automating Your Software Delivery Pipeline?

Leading Agile

It ended up costing them about 4,000 pounds and was implemented in one month. Circa 2018 this might seem rather obvious, but one aspect of automating a software delivery pipeline is to automate the build process for the application. It takes a bit of effort, but more often than not it’s worth the cost. Building software.

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How The Cloud Made ‘Data-Driven Culture’ Possible | Part 1

BizAcuity

Despite cost-cutting being the main reason why most companies shift to the cloud, that is not the only benefit they walk away with. While that allows easy access to users, and saves costs, the cloud is much more and beyond that. IBM had introduced the concept of Virtual Machines (VMs) almost a decade before the birth of the internet.

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What’s the Scope of a Unit Test?

Leading Agile

This next one was published in 2018, but it isn’t a brand new idea. Unless you want to beat COBOL code into submission with your bare hands, maybe like this , you’ll be using IBM Rational Developer for zSeries with zUnit , Compuware Topaz Workbench , or rolling your own test harness. Michael “GeePaw” Hill.

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A Minimal Development Environment: Part One

Leading Agile

Oracle’s JDeveloper and IBM’s Rational Application Developer (RAD) have similar issues, and a fair amount of space on user forums and blogs is devoted to memory-related tuning tips to make those tools run well. It doesn’t appear to have significant memory problems, although there was a memory leak in a January 2018 build.

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Do the Benefits of Cloud Outweigh the Costs?

Insight Software

In fact, a recent Gartner report on cloud expenditure found that cross-industry cloud spend has risen from 8% as a percentage of total IT spend in 2018 to 16% in 2022. But the constant noise around the topic – from cost benefit analyses to sales pitches to technical overviews – has led to information overload.