process improvement

Records Management Why You Should Automate Compliance

Compliance policy is one of those things most employees find boring and useless. However, for employers, staying compliant is one of the most crucial tasks and can have serious legal and financial repercussions if not done properly. But how can you make following compliance policy easier for your employees?

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Alex Morgan
Virtual event Getting the Most from a Virtual Event

Virtual events do have value, but in order to get that value, you need to treat them with the same reverence you would a physical event.  Here are a few suggestions on how to do that.

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Stasi Richmond
quality Are You Testing The Quality Into Your Software?

The test team shouldn’t have the onus to improve the software quality, rather the quality should already be built into the software.   A few subtle indicators can reveal if the quality isn’t being built into the software.

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Richard Estra
Paper Requirements Discipline: Avoiding “Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts"

Absent an effective requirements baseline it is difficult to distinguish clarifications and error correction from enhancements and changes to the original ask.

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Payson Hall
Test Teams Evaluation to Improve Effectiveness

Evaluating a test team member’s abilities is crucial in recognizing deficiencies within the team, and it provides an opportunity to outline a strategy to remedy the weaknesses. Selecting the proper method for evaluating the test team’s abilities is vital.

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Richard Estra
Man guiding heavy equipment in a manufacturing plant How AI and Machine Learning Are Revolutionizing the Manufacturing Industry

Manufacturing tasks used to be manual up until the Industrial Revolution. We’re now experiencing another revolution, with technology making processes easier, faster, and more efficient. Today, artificial intelligence and machine learning are automating machine maintenance, optimizing inventory, and even helping out humans.

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Ray Parker
Ideas written on sticky notes and posted to a bulletin board in order of priority Why Setting Priorities Is a Core Agile Practice

Every aspect of agile includes prioritization. The most important user stories are implemented first. Testing is prioritized to make sure features valued by customers are tested the most. Even everyday tasks are prioritized during daily standups. Here are three reasons setting priorities is essential to success in agile.

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Jeffery Payne
Prioritizing Invisible Work

There are work items that will give the team an operational boost and perhaps avoid a crisis, but that never make it to the top of the priority list—like build and deployment improvements, or paying down technical debt. For enabling work that is valuable but too invisible to be a priority, consider breaking it down.

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Steve Berczuk