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Why agile teams need to share the product owner role
Within many agile teams, the PO (product owner) is solely responsible for the definition, interpretation, and prioritization of requirements. While these areas are clearly ruled by the PO, making them the unique province of the PO is fundamentally at odds with healthy agile team practices such as cross-functional teaming and collaborative swarming. Building a special box around the PO into which…
SA has highest 'digital literacy' in Africa - study
Johannesburg - South Africa has been rated as the country with the highest digital literacy in Africa, according to a report released on Thursday by Siemens and Deloitte. The 'African Digitalisation Maturity Report 2017' included research conducted across South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya and Ethiopia. The skills and digital literacy segment of…
Microsoft woos open source developers by joining the Linux Foundation
To be successful, Microsoft must entice developers to build apps that use its cloud services. Several key announcements aim to do just that. If you search Google or Bing for "Steve Ballmer developers," the first result is likely to be a video of the former Microsoft CEO manically chanting developers, over…
How to scale agile and DevOps together
Agile, DevOps, continuous delivery—and all of it at scale. How do these things come together? Businesses want to do more with the technical advances that DevOps and agile have conferred, but when it comes to next steps, those who advocate “scaled agility” seem to talk past those who discuss “the…
Creating a pipeline of data science skills
There is currently a disconnect between what academia is teaching students in analytics disciplines and what the companies that will recruit them after graduation require. The majority of tertiary education institutions teach the students to utilise open source analytics software. This works well in the classroom environment of a university…
The most popular programming languages in the world
ZDNet has published a ranking of the most popular programming languages by combining the metrics used in various other rankings. Columnist David Gewirtz explains that answering the question “Which programming language is the most popular?” is no simple task as there is no shortage of measures you can use to gauge popularity. In the end he combined the rankings…
Importance of quick, secure and flexible IT delivery
Delivery has always been a key differentiator in business. Whether it be goods or services, companies that are known to deliver quality offerings quickly, securely and flexibly, are already well on their way to success. In South Africa, for example, online store Takealot.com has become immensely popular over the past…
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