What is your best prediction for enterprise organizations negotiating digital transformation/modernization in 2024? The EQengineered team shares their insights.
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A refactor-positive culture ensures that codebases remain clean, understandable, and adaptable to changing requirements. Such an environment enhances developer productivity and accelerates the development cycle. It simplifies onboarding for new team members and fosters better collaboration, making the codebase a shared and well-tended asset rather than a liability.
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With the pace of innovation at an all-time high in 2023 and the promise of even more accelerated innovation in 2024, it’s critical that organizations adopt a framework and mindset for creating space within teams to promote new ideas. It’s our job as technology leaders to foster this through empathy and modeling these behaviors in 2024 and beyond. As we start off 2024, my wish for teams is for lots of great failures that lead to some amazing insights and breakthroughs.
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I recently discovered that common challenges as a project manager are not just mine during one of my PMI chapter meetings, it was obvious that other project managers struggle in the same way.
Let’s learn from our challenges together!
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This week was a busy week in the world of Microsoft conferences. We had both Microsoft Ignite 2023 and dotnetconf to herald in .net 8.
There were so many incredible announcements that my head started spinning with the possibilities for 2024 and beyond. I think it’s a good time to pause and reflect on some insights I was able to glean and how I think both conferences converged.
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Top 3 Takeaways from Microsoft Ignite 2023, a top conference from an industry leader.
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Oftentimes, when an organization looks at the lifecycle of a project, they may see it in the stages that relate to the work being accomplished as a traditional project regardless of the methodology used to manage it. The inception of a project would include a kickoff and the team begins work. The project concludes and either enters into a maintenance cadence or a new project is begun for the next phase of the work.
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Discovering the best of what's next in Microsoft technology.
Learning about the latest AI innovations directly from Microsoft experts.
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If you've been in the software industry for more than 20 years, you remember life before Agile methodology, and what a revolution it was. Yet more than two decades in, this methodology is as much a religion as the waterfall/factory model was before. It is fair to say that for many organizations, Agile has become inflexible. How did this happen, and what can we do about it?
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During my time at Forrester Research, I learned to embrace new technologies and trends through the lens of, “What value can this provide to customers, my team and myself?” Chasing the next shiny ball is not a strategy, nor is waiting until the market leaders set the pace and direction.
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GitHub Universe 2023 kicked off with the promise of revolutionizing software development, and it did not disappoint. The first day's keynote laid the foundation for a future where AI does not just assist developers; it becomes an integral part of all coding workflows. The event showcased significant progress in the AI Developer tool space, from the enhanced GitHub Copilot capabilities to a new Copilot Workspace tool able to act as a dedicated pair programmer/second brain in an isolated space.
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Let us assume we have adopted REST endpoints and utilize a modern SPA. At this point, we might reasonably believe we are done with separation of concerns. The architectural decoupling in RESTful endpoints and a modern front end go a huge distance in separating out the logic, but there are still challenges to face to keep the separation pure. Let’s look at some of them.
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