Social Media and managing content! This article offers a critical view of how content available on the internet quintessentially shapes public opinions and provides an unique challenge to governments around the world. Introduction The Social media today has a very different impact potential than it used to 10 years ago. Today the social media is…
Month: January 2020
Big Tech, content moderation and regulations – Three way road!
Big Tech, content moderation and regulations – Three way road! Big Tech controls lives yet has difficulty controlling what it hosts! Introduction When Mark Zuckerberg wrote the oped in WAPO in March 2019 asking for government and regulators to step in more aggressively to police the internet, he may have elaborated what many insiders…
Architectural Innovation – Change is hard!
Architectural Innovation What’s common between World War tank Blitzkrieg on the battlefronts of Europe and modern organizations’ historical fumbles with disruptive technologies Image Source: Internet The Blitzkrieg Major JFC Fuller, then 37 years of age, was posted at the Somme battlefield in France at the time of WWI in 1916. On that battlefield, Major…
Scrum vs Kanban: identical yet miles apart!
Scrum vs Kanban: identical yet miles apart! Introduction Any IT product, application or software development effort is made up of stakeholders who are invested in the success of the product. These stakeholders typical comprise customers or users, executives, development team comprising architects, product owners, analysts, Ux/ UI developers, software developers, testers, etc. In conventional…
Transform to market realities: Leading the Microsoft way!
Transform to market realities: Leading the Microsoft way! Microsoft has mostly been recognized as the industry leader in technology and innovation. Having cornered 90% of world personal computer market and having massively popular enterprise services as a cash cow meant that Microsoft always carried significant advantage over its competitors and peers. It could literally burn…
Is Security better in Cloud?
Is Security better in Cloud? Introduction A little more than a decade ago when the term Cloud, Cloud computing, and other terms associated with enterprise IT systems started to become part of technical discussions and mainstream IT topics, most IT professionals and managers, let aside outsiders, acted more in disbelief than with optimism. The initial…
How the Big Tech is building their own Infrastructure?
How the Big Tech is building their own Infrastructure? Introduction According to some the vast expanse of Internet infrastructure is really just a spaghetti-work of really long wires spread everywhere. While most of the humans now largely experience the internet through Wi-Fi and phone data, the connectivity itself is provided by systems carrying the…
Agile Testing – A real world outlook
Agile Testing – A real world outlook When working on an Agile project, there is continuous discussion about development processes and timely, iterative delivery to customers. For the most part, Testing is construed, without much thought, to be an ‘included’ part of Agile Development process, just as design and requirements analysis are. Yet the…
Agile Mindset
Agile Mindset -: Understanding principles before leading Introduction A mindset, or state of mind, is a set of beliefs, thoughts, biases, assumptions and values held by an individual or a group of individuals that leads the individual or the group respectively towards the choices they make. The Humans are most comfortable in choosing paths…
Agile, Lean and Design Thinking
Erasing and drawing line: Agile, Lean and Design thinking Introduction Agile and Lean are some of the most commonly used terms in SDLC lifecycle. Often these terms are used interchangeably or as complimentary to each other. There are similarities as well as points of divergence between these approaches, and it takes years of practical…