I recently had the pleasure of attending REWORK’s Deep Learning Summit in Boston. Two topics stood out to me as eminently huge forces in deep learning: a powerful way to understand neural networks (and its practical benefits), and domain adaptation. These are both topics the community should be aware of, so let’s discuss them. 1….
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Top 3 Insights from the 2017 State of DevOps Report
Puppet and DORA have released this year’s edition of the State of DevOps Report. Just as in previous years (see my takeaways from 2015 and 2016), this year’s edition is packed with valuable insights about the benefits of DevOps and how to get the most from your DevOps transformation. We continue to see high-performing…
Agile 2017 Key Takeaways
Last week, five of Excella’s Agilists traveled to Orlando, FL for Agile 2017 for a jam-packed week of learning about all things Agile! Here they share their top takeaways of the conference. Security Testing in an Agile World – Dan Davis One of my favorite presentations this year was Abhay Bhargav’s talk on how to…
Dear Agile: Not Your Average Stand-Up
This post is the latest in Excella’s Dear Agile series of blog posts. DEAR AGILE: Recently, a colleague brought up a team that does “plank stand-up” – that is, everyone assumes the plank position (an abdominal exercise) during stand-up to ensure that it goes quickly. Your colleagues’ obvious suffering is a visual reminder to be…
What Makes .NET Fringe Different
This year I was honored to be asked to kick off the .NET Fringe 2017 conference with a talk, which you can see here. Since this way my third year attending the conference and it fast became my favorite, I want to write up some thoughts on what I think sets .NET Fringe uniquely apart…
What is the Role of the Product Manager?
Product Management as a discipline has existed for a long time, but may still be slippery depending on your background. You can certainly Google it and find a bunch of content. This is the answer that I like to start with: the product manager is the person who is responsible for achieving business outcomes. Now what…
Leadership, Kanban and Agile 2017
I’m really looking forward to Agile2017 and am thrilled to be speaking there. I’ll be giving a variant of my talk on Kanban and Distributed Cognition at 2:00 PM on Thursday August 10th. Here’s a preview of it and some of the other things I’m looking forward to. Leadership at Every Level David Marquet will…
Three Common Cases for Universal Rendering in Progressive Web Apps
In the beginning, there was HTML and it was good. Websites were light weight, albeit a tad boring. Innovation on the world wide web was as slow as our dial-up connections as we wasted seconds our lives waiting for that adorable animated gif of a cat chasing its own tail to load. Then came interactivity…
Best Tech Events for August 2017
Escape the heat and humidity by heading inside to one of these tech events! Check out our list of upcoming events this month in the DC metro area. So You Want To Go Faster? Sponsored by: Tech Talk DC Tuesday, August 1st 6:30 PM Arlington Tech eXchange – Arlington, VA Arlington VA AWS Meetup Sponsored by: Arlington VA…
Becoming a Catalyst, Part Two
In my previous post, I discussed ways in which anyone can become a leader by taking on small changes and letting these propagate throughout the organization. I now want to focus on how we want to think of these changes in terms of the third element. This third element comes in the form of the…
