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

BizAcuity

IBM had introduced the concept of Virtual Machines (VMs) almost a decade before the birth of the internet. They also prioritize developing multiple internet services. 2005: Microsoft passes internal memo to find solutions that could let users access their services through the internet. The evolution of Cloud Computing.

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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. Gordon Davey – Cloud Services Global Business Owner at SoftwareONE.

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A Minimal Development Environment: Part One

Leading Agile

All these details vary by programming language, and good IDEs “know” how to work with projects in the language they were designed to support. Text editors, however configurable they may be, lack this kind of support. IDEs: The Trade-Offs. The trade-offs for integrating numerous functions include: memory footprint.

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Governance that Goes with the Flow

Leading Agile

Next step is to bring in outside consultants to implement an “agile framework” of some sort. It’s the mentality behind the creation of “diversity programs” despite their well-known non-effectiveness , or the idea that no one ever gets fired for hiring IBM. They hire 40 Product Owners and 40 Scrum Masters.

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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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Soma Ray & Stephanie Agotborde from Booking.com on ‘Making UX Research a Team Sport’

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So, when teams wanted to do research by themselves, they were mostly on their own, without any guidelines or any support on best practices. So, the researcher that supports those teams has to sit down and ruthlessly prioritize. Having worked with tech enterprises like Dell, Nvidia, IBM, we are lucky enough to have her at Booking.com.