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Critical Software Development Trends to Watch in 2022
Digital transformation has placed technology firmly at the heart of every business. As a result, software development has become a business-critical function. Ensuring the rapid development and ongoing quality of software is crucial for a company to survive and thrive. Software development is now a mature business. Open source entered the mainstream in the 1990s, and Amazon cloud services date
5 Tips on Becoming a Better Tech Leader
Ongoing self-improvement is critical to success in both your personal and professional life. Without a hint of irony, you really should be applying continuous development principles to yourself. By looking at small and achievable improvements on an ongoing basis, making changes, and adapting based on how those alterations impact real-world outcomes, you can become a much more capable and flexible
101 Ways Welcomes its Newest Leader: Technical Director Grant Smith
We are excited to announce that Grant Smith has joined the 101 Ways team as Technical Director. With over 20 years of experience creating and leading high-performance teams in some of the world’s fastest-growing companies, Grant perfectly complements our existing leadership team — Founder Kelly Waters, CEO Zane Gambasin, Chief of Staff Emma Hopkinson-Spark, Director Mike Dixon and Technology Director
The Future of Serverless Computing is (INSERT OPINION)
Serverless computing feels like it’s been a “hot trend” forever. Even before AWS Lambda first introduced the concept in 2014, it’s been hailed as both a saviour and a curse, finding its way onto countless lists of IT and software development trends. So, what’s the truth, where is it going, and why are we still talking about it? The reality
So, you want to be a CTO? We asked some existing CTOs how to make the leap
CTO seems like a natural career move for many senior technologists. However, it may not be for everyone, and it’s not always the most straightforward transition to pull off. So, what, really, is a CTO? And what makes them tick? And more importantly, what makes a good one? We were privileged to be joined recently by three inspirational CTOs, from
What is The Real Future of Technology Leadership?
Some of the most successful CTO’s I’ve ever worked with come from non-technical backgrounds. At a time when technologists and businesses seem to worship technology, it’s important to take a step back and question if that’s really where technology leaders should be focusing their time and energy. I strongly believe that the future of technology leadership is much more about
101 Ways supports Abcam to Accelerate Life Science Research
101 Ways helps Abcam digitally transform to better empower life science researchers at a time when it is needed most Technology consultancy 101 Ways today announces that it is working with Abcam a global innovator in life science reagents and tools, to expand its digital services to the life science community. Aiming at developing and delivering a new digital operating
Six Actionable Nuggets of Advice for Becoming a First-time Technology NED
If the pandemic has taught companies anything it’s that tech is not something that you put off and think about ‘later’. The last year has seen organisations go through huge digital transformations, whether planned or otherwise. And for those that aren’t technology-based companies, getting the right board-level advice can not only be hard to find, but the difference between success
Agile Principle 1: Active User Involvement Is Imperative
In my mind, active user involvement is the first of 10 key agile principles. It’s not always possible to have users directly involved in development projects, particularly if the agile development project is to build a product where the real end users will be external customers or consumers. In this event it is imperative to have a senior and experienced
Agile Principle 2: Agile Development Teams Must Be Empowered
An agile development team must include all the necessary team members to make decisions, and make them on a timely basis. Active user involvement is one of the key agile principles to enable this, so the user or user representative from the business must be closely involved on a daily basis. The project team must be empowered to make decisions
Agile Principle 3: Time Waits For No Man!
In agile development, requirements evolve, but timescales are fixed. This is in stark contrast to a traditional development project, where one of the earliest goals is to capture all known requirements and baseline the scope so that any other changes are subject to change control. Traditionally, users are educated that it’s much more expensive to change or add requirements during
Agile Principle 4: Agile Requirements Are Barely Sufficient
Agile development teams capture requirements at a high level and on a piecemeal basis, just-in-time for each feature to be developed. Agile requirements are ideally visual and should be barely sufficient, i.e. the absolute minimum required to enable development and testing to proceed with reasonable efficiency. The rationale for this is to minimise the time spent on anything that doesn’t
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By Kelly Waters
“’Agile’ is one of the biggest buzzwords of the last decade. Agile methods often come across as rather more complicated than they really are. This book is an attempt to unravel that complexity. To simplify the concepts. This book breaks the concepts into small bite-sized pieces that are easy to understand and easy to implement and delivers the message in a friendly and conversational style. Allaboutagile.com is one of the most popular blogs about agile on the web. ”
Kelly Waters
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Emma Hopkinson-Spark
“Whilst there are lots of ways you can vary the game depending on the teams you have and the learning outcomes you want, the basic flow of the game play is common to all.”
Emma Hopkinson-Spark