I was at IBM’s INDEX Developer Conference earlier this year and it was a nice change to be surrounded by code—and how to think about code. Before I was an Agile Coach, I was a software developer, so this was a way to return to my roots. I thought the most compelling talk at the…
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Top Four Highlights from .Net Core 2.1
.Net Core 2.1 was announced recently by Microsoft along with corresponding updates for ASP.Net Core and Entity Framework Core. You can check out Preview 1 by installing from the Getting Started page or by downloading the latest docker images from Docker Hub. And don’t let the minor version fool you, there are some exciting new…
Best Tech Events for May 2018
April showers bring May tech events! Check out what our technologists are doing in the community and join us for an event. Here is this month’s list of upcoming events: DCA Live’s 2018 Chief Marketing Officers Organized by: DCA Live Wednesday, May 2nd 6 PM – 8 PM Washington, DC NoVA Code and Coffee Organized by:…
Starting at SilverLine: Building the Foundations of an Agile Marketing Team
During our first week on the job, coaches are presented with an excellent opportunity to help our teams and model the behavior we hope to see from them. And it doesn’t even involve solutioning! Though it’s tempting to show results right away, firing off solutions to obvious, but ingrained, problems is one of the last…
Unifying the Backend – Why We Need to Unite Data Science and DevOps
Your company has invested in data science; you’ve created data teams, invested in expensive data scientists and tools, and set your goals. So why isn’t it working? Chances are it may be how you are organizing your data team. Inevitably, if you try to build a data science team and/or project within a silo, isolated…
How Can Agile Marketing Teams Find the Right Coach?
Excella and Silverline Communications’ joint blog series, Business Agility: A Marketing Agency’s Transformation continues! In Silverline’s latest post, Founder and President, Laura Taylor, discusses why the right Agile coach made all the difference in her team’s Agile journey. As a non-IT team, Silverline sought a coach who could translate Lean and Agile principles in a…
My Take on Agile Assessments
Are you at the start of your Agile Journey? Or do you want an outside view on how well your journey is going? We find that organizations often request an Agile assessment to learn more about their current state and what the next steps ought to be. The Challenge The challenge is that most assessments…
Three Things I Learned at the Women in Tech Mid-Atlantic Conference
What do I do when I discover a conference, with technical and professional development content, that also gives all profits to a non-profit which inspires middle school girls about the power of technology? I volunteer, of course! Additionally, I had time for a few deep-dive conversations and quick networking opportunities where I met fascinating people….
Best Tech Events for April 2018
Celebrate spring and head to an event or meetup! Check out what our technologists are doing in the community and join us for an event. Here is this month’s list of upcoming events: NoVA Code Camp Organized by: Code Camp Saturday, April 7th 9 AM – 5:30 PM Reston, VA Effective Internships Workshop Organized by: Excella…
Understanding New AI With Old Math, and Why We Should Care
We’ve seen The Matrix, i,Robot, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Terminator, etc, imagining AI will destroy humanity. We’ve heard Elon Musk and various other businessmen decry AI as menacing. We’ve read how dangerous the black box of AI can be, and why its “explainability” is crucial to society. We’ve seen what can go wrong when…
