March 8th is International Women’s Day (IWD), honoring the achievements of women and promoting women’s rights. This post is a tribute to some women who have been very influential in the computer science and IT industry. Original name Augusta Ada Byron was born in London. She was a mathematician, an associate of Charles Babbage, for …
Which languages are most popular is an easy question without an easy answer. In this article, we present a response to it.
Product and project mindsets have the same end goal. Both want a successful product on time and within budget and happy customers. These similarities create confusion at all levels of business executives, and a debate about the advantages or benefits of one over the other. This post moves out of the debate and presents in which scenarios one approach is more suitable than the other.
Detailed and flexible planning was a key success factor for the 1st ascent of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953; when Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached the 8848-meter summit of Mount Everest, becoming the first people to stand atop the world’s highest mountain. Considering reconnaissance and climbing expeditions starting in 1921, it …
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The developer shortage continues to cause headaches for many organizations around the world. This is the scenario and some alternatives that could relieve it.
The new way of working and how managers and employees disagree about key aspects of working from-home
Improving product quality is a long and winding road. Is not something you acheive immediately and there are multiple factors affecting it. Vision, market knowledge, product definition among others. And of course software quality. The “Art of software testing” has evolved a lot since Glenford Myers published this classical book in 1979. XP made a …