Topic: development teams
Top five challenges development managers are facing today
Debugging company Rookout surveyed developer and DevOps managers in the cloud-native space to get a better view of how increased pressure to digitally transform is impacting their ability to form and maintain successful teams. RELATED CONTENT: How you organize your development teams matter According to the report, the five challenges managers are struggling with are: … continue reading
How you organize your development teams matters
Among the roles played by development managers is to serve as the middle man between the business and developers. They have the hard task of facilitating the needs and wants of the business and end users through their development projects. How they set up, organize and empower their teams can result in the success or … continue reading
How to future-proof your software engineering team
Change is inevitable as an organization scales, and the desperate rush to fill holes in a rapidly expanding engineering team can cause leaders to overlook the bigger picture. When an organization can resist the temptation to focus only on the here and now, it will be in a much stronger position to adapt to unforeseen … continue reading
Trello boards get a “Power-Up” with new directory
Atlassian’s visual organization tool Trello is releasing a new solution for discovering, managing and organizing Power-Ups. Trello was acquired by Atlassian With the new Power-Ups directory, development teams can easily search for the right Power-Ups for their workflow, and implement it to their Trello boards. “If you are unfamiliar with Power-Ups, they are additional features … continue reading
Guest View: Software reflects teams that build it
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. To deliver more customer value, a software team decides to upgrade the database. They talk to their operations people, who say, “Sorry, we can’t upgrade to the latest version because another team shares the database, and their application won’t support it.” Resigned to their fate, they put the … continue reading
SD Times news digest: GitHub team discussions, MariaDB AX, and MapR Converged Data Platform 6.0
GitHub announced a new solution to talk to team members about projects, and share information. Team discussions provides a place for team members to have public or private discussions, get updates about what is going on, and stay up to date. “Gone are the days of having your issues cluttered with discussions or your pull … continue reading
Agile can’t succeed as an island
More development teams have adopted agile and lean ways of working to deliver better quality products faster. Despite their efforts, they’re still missing deadlines and churning out buggy software. Most of these teams are expected to solve business problems, but their work doesn’t align with business objectives. In fact, there’s a huge disconnect between development … continue reading
GitHub gives organizations a new way to structure their development teams
GitHub is announcing nested teams, a new feature that enables organizations to provide more order within their GitHub organization. Nested teams allows organizations to create team structures, manage team members, simplify permissions and focus on @mentions. “Now you can use multiple levels of nested teams to reflect your group or company’s hierarchy within your GitHub … continue reading
HPE launches containerized versions of its IT operations suites
HPE is embracing the benefits of container technology with the launch of containerized versions for its HPE IT Operations Management (ITOM) suites. The suites are based on container deployment foundations that are built to natively handle container clusters at scale. Container adoption and the container ecosystem have been growing exponentially on the application development side, … continue reading
TechExcel’s new version of DevSuite 10.0 speeds up delivery, development
Since the constant change of requirements in a life cycle can be overwhelming for development teams, TechExcel, a provider of application life-cycle management (ALM) solutions, announced the latest version of DevSuite to help teams speed up development life-cycle activities. DevSuite 10.0 simplifies requirements traceability through the entire life cycle, including development, testing, bug fixes and … continue reading
Guest View: What skills to look for to build an efficient development team
The success or failure rate of a development team can largely be correlated with the expertise and skill sets represented by its individual members. Sometimes, software development C-level officers can become so mired in the myriad aspects of running a business and getting products released as quickly as possible that they lose sight of what … continue reading
