Building an Agile Team: How to Balance Your Team (And Look Beyond the Gold...
Share Balancing your team is never an easy task. But as Jillian Haffner, Director of Cloud Solutions & Integrations at Turbine/Warner Brothers Games, and Jennifer Davis, Software Engineer at Chef...
View ArticleBuilding an Agile Team: How to Organize Your Team [Video]
Share One of the key components of building an agile team is making sure your organization is staffed with the right people to execute on your goals. As Jillian Haffner, Director of Cloud Solutions...
View ArticleEven If They Hacked It, So What? Why Threat Modeling Matters
Share Eliminating waste is by far my favorite part of the agile approach to software. In a world where the entirety of a piece of software is designed up front, I might ship and learn only after the...
View ArticleBuilding an Agile Team: Hiring Effective Agile Developers [VIDEO]
Share How do you hire agile developers? This is a question many organizations have begun asking themselves, as DevOps becomes more than just an industry buzzword. And this is the question Jillian...
View Article13 Experts Share Their 2016 Software Industry Predictions [SlideShare]
Share It’s never easy to predict the future. But if you want to plan for the future, you need to keep an eye on what’s coming next. This month, we reached out to people from different areas of the...
View Article[VIDEO] Building an Agile Team: What Does DevOps Mean to You?
ShareWhat does DevOps mean to you? That was the question we proposed to Jillian Haffner, Director of Cloud Solutions & Integrations at Turbine/Warner Brothers Games, and Jennifer Davis, Software...
View ArticleWhat is your Agile Development Jedi Rank?
ShareYou may think you know all about Agile methodology, but this quiz will challenge you to prove it! Are you an Agile Jedi Master Yoda or an Agile Jedi Padawan? Enter to win a $250 gift card by...
View ArticleFintech and DevOps Collide in London: SmartBear and Sogeti UK
ShareFinancial institutions, like other critical service industries such as health care and air travel, have the unique challenge of no room for failure. It’s a bad day if your ATM card doesn’t work....
View ArticleGetting That New Tool Past The “Gate Keeper”
Share You’re part of a software development group, and you’re surrounded by techies like yourself – people that get excited about new ideas, approaches, tools, frameworks, and languages. But then...
View ArticleQA Testing For What Your Users Really Want
Share The software world in general is moving toward increased shared responsibility and individual ownership. From developers to operations to testing, the microservices world has us focusing on...
View ArticleDeliberate Application Testing in Agile with Dan North
Yesterday morning, I attended Dan North’s keynote session, Deliberate Testing in an Agile World. Dan spoke in depth about the gaps in traditional testing approach and how risks associated with software...
View ArticleTesting in an Agile Environment
The traditional software development life-cycle model is undergoing a rapid change, primarily because businesses need to deliver quality application in shorter release cycles and at a reduced cost....
View ArticleHow to Grow Agility through Code Review
It has always interested me to see how different development teams treat code reviews. Some teams see code reviews as crucial to their success while others see them as a barrier to getting things done....
View ArticlePatterns of API Virtualization
When Christopher Alexander wrote A Pattern Language in 1977, he was looking for a more powerful way to describe how towns and buildings were laid out. These patterns would allow architects, builders...
View ArticleThe Software Naughty List: Most Hilariously Bad Tech Jokes, Puns and Memes of...
The Software Naughty List from SmartBear Inspired by the character “Schmidt” from the popular sitcom, New Girl, we have a fun little tradition around the office at SmartBear headquarters called the...
View ArticleTestComplete 10.4 & QAComplete 9.9 Brings Collaboration Across Teams and...
The SmartBear team is thrilled to announce TestComplete 10.4 and QAComplete 9.9 release. The focus of both these releases has been helping organizations deliver high quality applications in shorter...
View ArticleFeeding the Flame of the Collaborative Development Revolution
Agile, open source, the cloud, and DevOps have all led to a world where everyone should be involved in programming. Yes, everyone. Once upon a time there were users and there were IT and never the...
View ArticleQuality in Agile Development: Notes from Keep Austin Agile Conference
I attended the Keep Austin Agile conference last Friday at the Renaissance Hotel in Austin, TX. The conference was sold out, with 500 attendees. In fact, more than 100 people were said to be waiting...
View ArticleJohn Boyd and the Origins of “Agility”
Agility is all around us these days, but the origins of Agile programming and Agile marketing lie in the Korean War and the work-up to invading Iraq. Lisa Morgan recently wrote that “Most software...
View ArticleCreative Software Testing in Agile Environment | Iain McCowatt
And here we have it… the final installment of the Creativity in Testing series. The last interview in the series is with none other than Iain McCowatt, Director at Barclays. With more than 20 years of...
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