Improving the quality of software doesn’t have to come at the expense of delivery velocity. An old adage applies - work smarter, not harder. It’s not about applying more testing. It’s about adopting a risk-based QE approach to optimise testing strategies and effort....
In my 3 years as a Scrum Master, it's safe to say I've helped facilitate a few estimating sessions. Despite my best efforts, some of these were long (2 hr+) sessions that could lead to team frustration, low engagement and sometimes a loss of confidence...
So I just attended the 2019 YOW! Conference in Melbourne. There were wacky booths, certified delish food (see picture above), and a whole heap of swag. There was also a star-studded lineup of speakers presenting amazing content that was both insightful and challenging.
“You’re going to a DevOps conference? Aren't you a developer?”
This is something I had been asked on more than one occasion in the lead up to this conference. Each time I’m questioned, I point out that the term DevOps is exactly six characters long, and that more or less fifty percent of those characters are “Dev”. I have at least half a right to be here.
“A form [ ] collects information from at least one party, and delivers it to at least one other party, so a product or service can be provided.”~Jessica EndersThe role of a UX designer is to help create easy, fast and productive form experiences. To entice users to fill in forms. As form design expert Jessica Enders states, designers should “create an optimal user experience, such that the needs of both the users and the owner of the form [organisation that owns the form] are met.”
I had the opportunity to attend AWS bootcamp in Sydney a couple of weeks ago. The session I chose to attend was entitled "Securing Cloud Workloads with DevOps Automation". There were many interesting concepts discussed, all hinging around the new term 'DevSecOps'. In this post, I'd like to talk about what this is and how it relates to traditional DevOps.
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Last month I had the opportunity to attend the Agile UX conference in Sydney. A one day conference, run by UX Australia, the topics centred around "designing great user experiences within an Agile environment”. For me, as a non-UX practitioner, my goal was a greater insight into some of the challenges that others in the UX field are facing.