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Lean principles and practices are guidelines and methodologies to maximize efficiency and minimize waste in business operations. Initially developed for manufacturing operations, they have been applied to various industries. Some fundamental principles and practices include: Some standard Lean practices include Value Stream Mapping, Kanban, Pull System, 5S, and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM). Lean Agile Lean […]
After the past few years, it’s no wonder some leaders are feeling exhausted. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s recent announcement that she will step down as the country Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, recently announced her resignation, which has shocked many due to her steady and empathetic leadership style during the […]
“Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship” is a book written by Robert C. Martin, also known as Uncle Bob. The book is a guide to writing clean, maintainable, and scalable code. It covers a wide range of topics, including design patterns, refactoring, testing, and coding style. In “Clean Code,” Uncle Bob advocates for […]
Scrum is an Agile framework for managing and completing complex projects. It is based on practices, roles, events, and artifacts that work together to help teams deliver value to their customers incrementally and iteratively. The following are the primary artifacts defined in Scrum: Product Backlog: This is a prioritized list of items representing the work […]
SHA stands for secure hashing algorithm. SHA is a modified version of MD5 and is used for hashing data and certificates. A hashing algorithm shortens the input data into a more diminutive form that cannot be understood using bitwise operations, modular additions, and compression functions. You may be wondering, can hashing be cracked or decrypted? […]
Digitization of the city is heralded as the bottom-up empowerment of its citizens. But who defines citizenship as digital technology infiltrating everything from personalized experience to the unimagined potential of networked urban space? Mark Dean unpacks recent academic literature that questions citizens’ rights in the hyper-connected city. Improving the smart city for everyone begins with ensuring technology […]
The SOLID principles are design principles that can help developers write maintainable and scalable code. The SOLID principles are: Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) – A class should have only one reason to change.Open-Closed Principle (OCP) – Software entities should be open for extension but closed for modification.Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP) – Subtypes must be substitutable […]
Go faster than your competitors. That’s the promise of microservices – deploy more quickly, scale faster, and be more robust. It’s all about outcomes; how your organization is structured tremendously impacts those outcomes. It’s easy to say “Conway’s Law” and then move swiftly on. “But but but, but how?” James and Martin Fowler In early […]
Backlog refinement (formerly known as backlog grooming) is when the product owner and some, or all, of the rest of the team, review items on the backlog to ensure the backlog contains the appropriate items, that they are prioritized, and that the items at the top of the backlog are ready for delivery. This activity […]