Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Monday, August 4, 2014
Malicious obedience - "yes" my lord (!), because everybody does as they’re told – or else...
What do companies get when people follow orders to the letter whether those orders make any sense or not? Situations change so fast that orders and decisions from last week may not be appropriate today but because people are afraid of getting fired and everybody is trying to avoid blame, they do as they are told even if it actually causes harm. That's called malicious obedience. Nowadays We need systems that don’t stifle us or control us but that support a certain enthusiastic and dedicated spirit among us that enables responsiveness and agility.
Sunday, August 3, 2014
What is DevOps ?
"DevOps is the practice of operations and development engineers participating together in the entire service lifecycle, from design through the development process to production support. DevOps means a lot of different things to different people because the discussion around it covers a lot of ground". ”DevOps is all about trying to avoid that epic failure and working smarter and more efficiently at the same time. It is a framework of ideas and principles designed to foster cooperation, learning and coordination between development and operational groups."
Friday, August 1, 2014
SEP teamwork - Kanban tool for visual studio
One of the biggest problems with TFS is that it is difficult to visualize work. SEP TeamWorks is a work item management tool that digitizes kanban.
With SEP TeamWorks you can do it all.. SEP TeamWorks lets you view, edit, and create work items for Team Foundation Server 2008, 2010, and 2012.
"Thanks for the Feedback" - We teach giving but not receiving, how to receive feedback?
Doug Stone & Sheila Heen new book, Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well (Even When It’s Off-Base, Unfair, Poorly Delivered and Frankly, You’re Not in the Mood) (Viking 2014) explores the challenge of improving the quality of the feedback conversations that surround us in our professional lives and in our personal lives. Here’s some materials from around the web explaining this method.
API testing - when software talks to other software
An Application Programming Interface (API) makes it possible for software to talk to other software applications. API testing is in many respects like testing software at the user-interface level, only instead of testing by means of standard user inputs and outputs, you use software to send calls to the API, get output, and log the system’s response. Depending on the testing environment, you may use a suite of prepared test applications, but very often, you will wind up writing code specifically to test the API.
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