Access to onshore software engineering talent, when and how you need it

Follow these key steps to ensure you have the strategy and support needed for DevOps success.

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Successful DevOps teams accelerate the development cycle, improve software quality and reduce costs.

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Surge has hired Minna Rhee as CEO. She has extensive history leading international sales organizations and driving revenue growth for digital and technology companies. Most recently, she was president of BORN Group where she oversaw over $100M in revenue. She has also served as chief revenue officer at frog, developing a scalable, revenue generating sales and marketing organization, and chief digital, product and marketing officer at SourceMedia. [caption id="attachment_9693" align="alignnone" width="300"] Minna Rhee - CEO of Surge – a Catalyte company[/caption] Minna will lead the expansion of Surge's on-demand software engineering services to more companies across the U.S. She will…

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Efficient communication is a primary function and necessary skill for a project manager. Without it, they cannot manage expectations between the development team and project stakeholders. Development teams and project stakeholders need a flawless communicator because these two groups tend to speak different languages. They share the same concerns and goals – a successful project – but use different words and draw on different experiences to express their wants, needs and concerns. To bridge these different backgrounds and experiences, a project manager must be skilled in the use of one of the most powerful literary and poetic tools available: the…

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A piano and standard laptop keyboard have just about the same number of keys, 88. As a classically trained pianist and product owner, Abby Edwards has moved from one keyboard to the other. But in this transition, she's never lost sight that both are creative instruments that can inspire and bring joy to people's lives. You can read her full story here (an excerpt is below) and learn why you should embrace your artistic side, no matter how technical your role is. Don't lose your artistic spark in a technical world Staying creative will bring satisfaction to your work and…

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“Prioritization of work” is an important Agile concept. It helps ensure teams complete work that is most important to the business first. However, many people still conflate the prioritization of important work with work that delivers business value. Business value is the combination of all economic, human and intangible forms of importance to the business. In an agile or scrum methodology, all these dimensions contribute value to each feature. Prioritization is the process of putting the card with the highest business value ahead of the next most important card. In this way, the backlog reflects story cards in the order…

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