What are you doing is wrong! Most engineering teams are tracking effort and calling it progress. Story points, commit frequency, PR cycle time, items from a Definitions of Done implemented or respected — these are process metrics dressed up as productivity metrics. They tell you how busy your team is. They tell you almost nothing […]
What is the Cyber Resilience Act – CRA The Cyber Resilience Act is the first European regulation to set a mandatory minimum level of cyber security for all connected products available on the EU market – something that did not exist before. The CRA is a regulation from the European Union — formally Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 […]
We continue the series of 3 articles with the second one, about the Proof of Concept (POC). Here is the first article in the series, From Idea to Proof of Concept to MVP: The Idea stage (1/3) . 2. The Proof of Concept (POC) The POC is where the team tests a specific risky assumption […]
This is a a developer focused guide in three parts to evolving code, architecture, and processes with the purpose of turning a raw concept into a usable product. This process is one of the hardest parts of software development. Teams often jump into implementation too early, or they build something polished before testing whether the […]
If you work in software development, you are most probably using one of the well known Agile methodologies like Scrum, Kanban or Scrumban. But if you are using one of them, for example Scrum, and you feel that you need so When a software team considers moving from Scrum to Kanban or Scrumban, the biggest […]
Agile software development, particularly using Scrum, has revolutionized the way software is built and delivered. At its core, Agile embraces iterative and incremental development, a stark contrast to traditional “waterfall” methodologies. The primary objective is to deliver working software frequently and in small increments, ensuring continuous feedback, adaptability, and rapid value delivery. However, we know […]
Time for some other type of posts, not related to what I usually write about. But it bothers me to see so many “shiny” posts on Linkedin, when I know for sure that the reality is so much different than what they write there. So, time to demystify a bit this topic. This is a […]
My company develops security products for all major operating systems. We work with startups and with big companies, all striving to develop features (functional and non-functional) as fast and as good as possible. While on the first view this seems like a contradiction, there are actually ways of implementing exactly this. For security software development […]
I don’t usually write anymore about phishing attempts, but this one draw my attention due to large amount of emails and to variety of websites being used. Of course, I would not write “massive” if I would have received 1-10, but I receive about 10 a day. Fortunately, almost all go to Spam folder. Gmail […]
Introduction SOC 2 (Service Organization Control 2) certification is a framework designed by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) to help organizations manage customer data based on five Trust Service Criteria: , confidentiality,processing integrity, availability, security and privacy. This certification is crucial for service organizations that store or process customer data in the cloud. Comparison […]
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