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The Marriage of the Technology Industry and MBA Graduates In recent years there has been an increased demand among MBA graduates to find jobs in the technology sector. Technology MBAs are becoming popular and offer students excellent employment options to pursue their programs. Rajini Padmanaban looks at this increasingly popular marriage of two fields. |
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Is There a Recommended Duration of Time for a User-Facing Test? When end-user-involved test programs are done before release to production, the duration of tests is a very critical factor in determining the product's success or failure in meeting its goal. How long should you run the program in order to be sure you have enough data points to make a decision? |
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Quitters Sometimes Do Win: How to Recognize and Confront Sunk Costs From Freakonomics coauthor Stephen Dubner: "A ‘sunk cost’ is just what it sounds like: time or money you've already spent. The sunk-cost fallacy is when you tell yourself that you can't quit because of all that time or money you spent. We shouldn't fall for this fallacy, but we do it all the time." |
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How to Use Statistics to Become a Software Super Tester A core understanding of statistical principles and how they need to be leveraged in software testing goes a long way in giving a tester an edge, plus helping the product's or application’s quality. Learn how you can manage data and even predict test cases by drawing conclusions from statistics. |
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Focus on Users' Needs Rather Than on Your Software Product Bonnie Bailey explains that you need to take care of your users’ needs first, and then, just maybe, they will explore the fabulous features of your software. When we focus on our product rather than on what the user is trying to get done, we suffer from marketing myopia. |
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Prioritize Testing Tasks by Prioritizing Your Audiences The solution to prioritizing work is a matter of prioritizing audiences. A tester’s work has an audience: users, coworkers, and bosses. Testing is a service we provide to each audience, so it is important to know which audience is at the top of the "make happy" list. |
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Combining DevOps with a Hybrid Cloud Architecture Organizations that have adopted DevOps can take the collaborative practice even further by using a hybrid cloud architecture. Sumit Mehrotra explains how a hybrid cloud's benefits of automation, self-service, and visibility all contribute to DevOps' ability to rapidly accelerate development. |