Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

And that in order to achieve this strategy implementing a culture of performance throughout the organization is a must. In particular, lab tests are critical for implementing performance budgets in order to prevent performance degradations. This requires the ability to test a very large number of configurations.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 26, 2018

Putting all my years of yoga practice to the test, I inhaled slowly, gracefully held the air in for a few seconds, and then slowly exhaled feeling at one with the universe. Upon arrival I frantically scanned the shelves looking for the chocolate sauce. First pass… nothing. I was so eager I couldn’t even see it.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

One school of thought is that the testing parameters were flawed: the sweeter taste of New Coke didn't pair as well with food as classic Coke, nor was a full can of the sweeter product as satisfying as one sip. We see similar bet-the-business strategies today. As the 1990s business strategy sage M. Still, it flopped.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

When interviewing software engineers, I always provide at-home coding tests which focus on design. Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture was originally published in Technology Strategy Ideas and Insights on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Many of the practices that enable teams to move quickly are the same practices that enable highly-reliabile systems: automation, observability, testing, and design. This is an important leadership and strategy issue. Even with the best strategy and organization structure, there will always be dependencies.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

Domain Flow Storytelling One way to test the validity of your design and gain feedback on how to improve the design is to visualise how bounded contexts must collaborate to solve full business use cases for users of the system. For now, choose one to work with and make a note of the other possible models (they will be useful later).

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Over the past months, a number of Fortune 100 customers have been testing Tasktop’s new product, Tasktop Viz , to implement the Flow Framework. Just look at how ugly that service-oriented architecture is!” He had a strategy. And in Salesforce we saw pipeline improving, software going out every 90 days instead of years.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 1, 2019

Teams which own domain-specific contexts would create a pull-request containing changes in a configuration file (even better - code which compiles and is tested), which using the DSL, configures a mapping between a domain event to subscribe to and a notification to be sent.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 2, 2018

It is hard to avoid planning ahead in order to understand which teams will be touching which parts of the codebase, as-well-as coordinating merging, testing, and releasing. High alignment is needed when teams are coupled for unnecessary technical reasons A begrudging partnership necessitates low alignment efficiency.

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