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Often Forgotten Priorities for Software Leaders

There’s no question that today’s software leaders grapple with tackling competing priorities: how to scale products with market demand while balancing long-term sustainability; supercharging team productivity without fueling burnout, crafting...

DevOps: Balancing Basics with Innovation

DevOps teams are experiencing a chasm between traditionalists and innovators — a rift that grows as pressure mounts for teams to leverage the latest advancements. Traditionalists are fighting to preserve...

Jump-Start Your Application Performance Management

Performance engineering is critical for delivering fast, reliable, and scalable applications. In my last blog, I covered the warning signs that you have a performance engineering issue on your hands:...

Warning Signs: Performance Engineering the Culprit

Performance engineering far too often has been an afterthought to maintainability, scalability, and cost: not considered until it becomes a problem - and then it is owned by no one....

Beyond Capacity? 3 Steps to Act

As a leader of all things software and apps, the toggle between “strategy” and “emergency” can feel relentless: a continual balancing act to demonstrate progress against “shiny new objects” —...

Quality: A Seat in Your Mind

Software quality never happens by accident. Rather, it happens because of the conscious application of certain practices, processes, and ceremonies throughout the software delivery lifecycle. It happens because of a...

Get Ahead of Your Next Surge

As software leaders, we’re always one moment away from capacity overload — whether it be because one new project lands on our plate, we have to jump to firefight an...

Are You Ready for QE 3.0?

Over the last few weeks, I have been talking about the rapidly shifting QE paradigm, or the notion that as QE leaders we face a new set of challenges —...