Docker announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to simplify the lives of developers by allowing them to focus on application development, streamlining the process of deploying and managing containers in AWS from their local development environment.
Building Resilience in Geographically Distributed Teams - Part 1
May 26, 2020
Real digital transformation is built on a foundation of adaptability and the ability to embrace change. As we all face new challenges, I am offering some tips as a way to look deeply at your distributed work that is occurring and evaluate where and how it might be improved.
Distributed work can help us to create more resilient teams and help mitigate the impact of substantial upheavals whether they are market-driven or the result of events that happen in the outside world (geo-political unrest, war, disease, etc), or a combination.
A major part of this potential resilience is effective distributed development teams and taking advantage of the core business value of distributing to multiple locations/geographies. Here are those key benefits of distributed development teams:
1. Availability of Deeper Skills
Effective use of distributed teams gives you access to a significantly increased talent pool. You can take advantage of developers in one geography and AI specialists in another. If there is a geographic pool of talent, effective geographic distribution allows you to tie into the talent without fear of loss of productivity.
2. Increased Velocity
By using developers across multiple time zones you can increase the daily velocity of a team and deliver more value sooner. Effective team distribution also allows you to fill gaps more quickly, use on demand resources better, and leverage team members who may wish to work from home regularly or for a specific period.
3. Lower Development Costs
By finding the right partner in the right places you can build up your team with high value resources at lower prices, thereby delivering more and better customer value at the same price tag.
4. Protect Against Disruption
Having team members in distributed locations, and with the ability to work from other remote locations (home or office) allows you the greatest team elasticity and keeps people working and productive.
It is worth noting that all distributed development teams are not created equal. Teams that have a high degree of density in remote locations may not fare as well when put under stress.
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Industry News
July 13, 2020
Perforce Software announced the release of a combined JRebel and XRebel plugin for the Eclipse IDE.
July 13, 2020
Spectro Cloud announced that its first product—Spectro Cloud—is now generally available.
July 09, 2020
ShiftLeft released a new version of NextGen Static Analysis (NG SAST), including new workflows, purpose-built for developers that significantly improve security, while enhancing productivity.
July 09, 2020
RunSafe Security announced a partnership with JFrog that will enable RunSafe to supercharge binary protections via a simple plugin that JFrog users can deploy within their Artifactory repositories and instantly protect binaries and containers.
July 09, 2020
LeanIX closed $80 million in Series D funding led by new investor Goldman Sachs Growth.
July 08, 2020
Afi.ai introduced Afi Data Platform, a cloud-based replication and resiliency service that helps to monitor, predict downtime and recover K8s applications.
July 08, 2020
D2iQ announced the release of Conductor, a new interactive learning platform that enables enterprises to access hands-on cloud native courses and training.
July 08, 2020
SUSE entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Rancher Labs.
July 07, 2020
Micro Focus announced AI-powered enhancements to the intelligent testing capabilities of the UFT Family, a unified set of solutions designed to reduce the overall complexity of automating the functional testing processes.
July 07, 2020
Push Technology announced the launch of a new Service API capability for Diffusion Cloud, Push’s Real-Time API Management Cloud Platform.
July 07, 2020
Lightrun exited stealth and announced $4M in seed funding for the first complete continuous debugging and observability platform for production applications.
July 01, 2020
JFrog announced the launch of ChartCenter, a free, security-focused central repository of Helm charts for the community.
July 01, 2020
Kong announced a significant upgrade to open source Kuma, Kuma 0.6, available today.
July 01, 2020
Compuware Corporation, a BMC company, announced new capabilities that further automate and integrate test data and test case execution, empowering IT teams to achieve high-performance application development quality, velocity and efficiency.
