Blue Monitor Systems is an employee-owned company dedicated to delivering high-quality creative, technical, and scientific services worldwide. The company encourages employees to think like owners and contribute to social good in the communities where they operate. Blue Monitor uses an iterative "Zero Time" development method combining Agile and traditional approaches. This allows for monthly major releases across multiple projects through a matrix team structure and well-defined engineering processes.
How to go beyond traditional Scrum principles and scale to globally distributed teams with Continuous Delivery and Subversion. Presented by Andy Singleton of Assembla and Scott Rudenstein of WANdisco. Presented Nov. 15, 2012. 30 minutes.
How to go beyond traditional Scrum principles and scale to globally distributed teams with Continuous Delivery and Subversion. Presented by Andy Singleton of Assembla and Scott Rudenstein of WANdisco. Presented Nov. 15, 2012. 30 minutes.
Avea utilized waterfall and agile methodologies concurrently for increased efficiency. IBM rational products helped applying robust release management process for both waterfall and agile.
Given at the BCS in Edinburgh on the 1/8/2012. Talk about change and failed attempt to introduce XP into an organisation. Suggests potential reasons for the failure, introduces Kanban and then speculates as to how change might have been more successful in an evolutionary manner with Kanban.
Avea utilized waterfall and agile methodologies concurrently for increased efficiency. IBM rational products helped applying robust release management process for both waterfall and agile.
Given at the BCS in Edinburgh on the 1/8/2012. Talk about change and failed attempt to introduce XP into an organisation. Suggests potential reasons for the failure, introduces Kanban and then speculates as to how change might have been more successful in an evolutionary manner with Kanban.
Continuous Delivery in the real world - techniques to reduce the developers b...Nikolai Blackie
Do you suffer from elevated stress and high blood pressure from your current software release cycles? Lost count of the 2am troubleshooting sessions trying to working out why production didn’t deploy like test? In this session you will see real life continuous delivery strategies from the field, learn some implementation techniques and demonstrations of a few tools that will assist in reducing the headache of manual software delivery.
Presentation on Mobile DevOps. Presented at MoDevTablet conference on Sept. 14th. Focuses on:
- What is DevOps?
- What are the challenges of DevOps for Mobile?
- Best practices for Mobile DevOps
Blog post: https://sdarchitect.wordpress.com/2012/09/15/slides-for-my-presentation-on-mobile-devops/
Continuous Delivery refers to the process of releasing high quality software quickly and with confidence through the use of build, test and deployment automation. By applying Lean techniques to the development, test and deployment of software, waste is reduced and staff are freed up to work on more important tasks. By following a continuous delivery model, release cycles shift from a matter of months to weeks or days.
In this presentation, we will look at the key tools and processes involved in transitioning from a manual culture to one that embraces automation. We will look at real world examples, including the tools and architectural components. We will discuss organizational impacts, including the dramatic improvements in morale as team delivery commitments are met more easily through automation.
XebiaLabs, CloudBees, Puppet Labs Webinar Slides - IT Automation for the Mode...XebiaLabs
Learn how you can enhance and extend your existing infrastructure to create an automated, end-to-end IT platform supporting on-demand middleware and application environments, application release pipelines, Continuous Delivery, Private/ hybrid development platform and PaaS and more.
When moving to Feature-Driven Development (FDD), with geographically distributed development centers, it is customary to have a dedicated light weight environment per feature-development effort and to have robust automation support for the build and deploy life cycle of each feature branch at your own will.
In this session, learn about the Feature-Driven Development transition story of a cloud-based supply chain leader that shows how AWS services helped provide a highly scalable, elastic, and cost-effective solution to facilitate on-demand Feature Development Environments supported by an independent build, deployment, and test-automation framework.
If you are building a commercial Force.com app with a team of developers, this session is for you. Join us to learn best practices for setting up your Force.com IDE, managing source code, creating automated builds, deploying to test environments, and more. Hear from a panel of seasoned ISVs who are employing key team development principles. This session is primarily for product managers, architects, and developers (isvpartners).
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor Turskyi
Blue Monitor Systems Software Development Services
1. Business 2.0
Material in this demonstration may be subject to NDA and/or the
confidentiality clause in your MSPP Agreement.
2. Blue Monitor Systems has a corporate strategy that encourages
employee-owners to think and act like responsible owners helping
the company perform at a higher level. The company's founders
and employees are dedicated to the creation and delivery of quality
creative, technical, and scientific services which contribute to the
security and well being of communities worldwide. We believe that if
we do good socially for the communities where we operate, our
business will reap the benefits financially.
Blue Monitor is an employee-owned company of people dedicated
to delivering best-value services and solutions based on creativity,
and innovative applications of science and technology.
4. End-to-end approach, from creative to the data center
High quality & value vs. cost, swiftly and predictably
Dedicated, passionate team – scalable on the fly
5. Blue Monitor Customer
Customers in 15 Countries
Growth Worldwide
Managing 300+ servers
& 1500+ desktops
1,000+ Customers
Over 150+ Apps developed
in 5 years
FY06 FY07 FY08
7. The ―Zero Time‖ Method:
Enhanced mix of Agile (XP, Scrum) and traditional
(PMBOK, CMMI, RUP) approaches
Based on Blue Monitors team experience of successful
delivery of 400+ man/years programs with monthly major
releases
Based on real appreciation of Agile ideas but
understanding that pure Agile does not work well for
medium and large projects and programs
8. Matrix delivery resources structure
End-2-end iterative development cycle
Well defined engineering process
Flexible change control and configuration
management
Turn-key project infrastructure
9. Project Team 1
Project Team 2
Project Team 3
Project Team 4
Design QA
PM Development Operations
Each project team Is combined of specialists from 4 separate
departments: Design, Engineering, Test, Operations
Each account Is managed by an experienced Project Manager
and supervised by one of the Company Executives
10. Time
Iteration 1 Definition Implementation Stabilization Deployment
Planning Game Feature Code System
Complete Complete Freeze Release
Iteration 2 Definition Implementation Stabilization Deployment
Planning Game Feature Code System
Complete Complete Freeze Release
Iteration 3 Definition Implementation Stabilization Deployment
Planning Game Feature Code System
Complete Complete Freeze Release
11. Time
Product Requirements
Management Team Definition
Draft req-s Final req-s
ready ready
UI Team UI Definition
Draft UI Final UI
ready ready
Art Team Art Definition
Draft Art Final Art
ready ready
12. Time
Implementation Feature 1 Feature 2 Feature N
Feature 1 Feature 2 Feature N
Ready Ready Ready
Test Feature 1 Feature 2 Feature N Feature
Test Test Test Complete Test
Scope Feature
Implemented Complete
Stabilization Stabilization Deployment Verification Production
& Deployment Support
Feature Release Release Code System Release
complete Candidate 1 Candidate 2 Freeze Release Verified
13. In addition to general principles of
Small and frequent iterations
Product management as ―On-board
customers‖
in the engineering process we also specifically praise:
Continuous integration
TQM through Test-driven
development
14. • Run tests
• Review code Scans SVN for
Software • Check code in Cruise
Subversion changes
Engineers Control
Runs tests
Deploys to
Install is prepared Build is replicated
out of tested build QA Server to QA server Build
Installation
(URL) Server
Package
(URL)
Install is applied to
production servers
Production Under continuous integration
Server project stakeholders have instant access to:
(URL) • Latest development version of the system
• Latest version in QA
15. Time
Mainline Mainline Mainline Mainline
copied copied copied copied
Mainline
Version 1.0
Branch Branch
created QA Branch Production archived
Branch
Version 1.1
Branch Branch
created QA Branch Production archived
Branch
Version 1.2
Branch Branch
created QA Branch Production archived
Version N.M Branch
At any moment of time there are next branches:
1. Mainline — holds implementation codebase
2. QA branch — holds stabilization codebase
3. Production branch — holds production codebase
4. Archive branches — holds old versions codebases
16. Confluence is an enterprise wiki-style knowledge management
system that makes it easy for your team to collaborate and
share knowledge
JIRA is a bug tracking, issue tracking, and project
management system that has been designed with a focus on
task achievement, is instantly usable and is flexible to work
with.
Subversion is an open source version control system used to
maintain current and historical versions of files such as source
code, web pages, and documentation
Cruise Control is a framework for a continuous build process,
that includes plug-ins for email notification, Ant, and various
source control tools. It is integrated with Subversion and Code
Collaborator – automated code reviews system.
Adobe Acrobat Connect (former Macromedia Breeze) is a web
conferencing software with well developed collaboration and
information sharing features
Adobe Acrobat
Connect