Software Development & DevOps

In this interview, four experts discuss how UX can succeed in an Agile environment. In the traditional waterfall workflow, User Experience (UX) specialists have ample time to conduct research and incorporate valuable user insights during the planning stage. Additional feedback is often garnered post-release, through customer service interactions where users express their satisfaction or frustration with the application's ease of use.

As the IT environment continues to evolve rapidly, customers are increasingly seeking fast delivery of products, quick resolution of issues, and a reliable overall process. DevOps implementation in an organization can solve these demands, making DevOps engineering one of the most highly sought-after IT professions. This white paper provides a comprehensive guide for both technical and non-technical skills needed to pursue a career in DevOps engineering. It covers programming languages, DevOps tools, cloud platforms, infrastructure automation tools, and much more.

User stories are essential to agile development, as they help teams prioritize user needs and experiences, putting the human element first. This comprehensive guide to Jira's user story features provides tips and best practices to help you make the most out of this powerful tool. 

The journey towards achieving enterprise agility can be likened to a long, winding mountain road that is neither easy nor straightforward. Attempting to take shortcuts along the way can lead to being lost, but with a map and a skilled navigator, reaching the destination is assured. This white paper aims to provide that map, offering a clear description of the Five Phases of Enterprise Agility, which include the Agile Team, the Team of Agile Teams, the Scaling Agile Organization, the Agile Enterprise, and the Scaling Agile Enterprise.

Estimating the effort required for projects can be challenging, but Agile project management offers solutions to simplify the process. This comprehensive guide covers how to manage estimation in an Agile environment and explores popular methods for estimating with Agile teams. 

This white paper discusses the increasing adoption of DevOps in the public sector as government agencies recognize its benefits in improving software development speed and efficiency. It highlights the challenges of implementing new processes in this highly regulated sector and offers a guide to help overcome these challenges. 

This white paper covers how implementing DevSecOps processes can help IT teams incorporate security policies into the DevOps cycle. It discusses security as code, continuous testing, maintaining security measures, and more. 

Mocking, a technique that involves creating simulated environments to mimic service behavior, offers opportunities for developers and testers to ensure high quality throughout the software development lifecycle. In this ebook, you'll learn that by leveraging mocking, teams can establish sandbox environments and effectively simulate service behaviors, contributing to the overall quality of the developed applications. 

In this webinar, Thad West, CEO of Isos Technology, discusses the evolution of DevOps with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) experts. The webinar covers the evolution of DevOps roles and responsibilities within an organization, key performance metrics for Site Reliability Engineering, SLO quality gates, and the importance of both "shift left" and "shift right" approaches to DevOps. 

Learn about Opsgenie's features and how to improve operational efficiency with the platform through a comprehensive introduction. The webinar also covers how to transition from PagerDuty to Opsgenie with things like exporting your data, setting up integrations with existing tools, and configuring on-call schedules and escalation policies in Opsgenie.

Agile Project Management is an iterative and incremental approach to software development projects supported by a cross-functional team. It allows for flexibility and frequent delivery of product iterations, and enables teams to respond to changes quickly. Agile follows a framework, with detailed project planning and estimation for each sprint before execution. Accurate estimation is important for planning and managing the effort to deliver a new feature or product.  This extensive article covers four methods for estimating work: Planning Poker, Asynchronous, Relative Estimation, and Bucket Sizing, with explanations on how to use each approach.

In this webinar, Adaptavist's experts, Matthew Stublefield and Ryan Spilken, share time-saving tips for efficient Jira management. This webinar is suitable for Jira users of all experience levels and will provide practical examples to enhance efficiency, including tips on project setup, training, and automation.