What the Dev?

As organizations have shifted to a mobile-first approach, they've found that the main challenge is testing for the sheer variety of devices out there. With me today to talk about the challenges of mobile testing is Nadya Knysh, the Managing Director at a1qa, North America. a1qa is a company that provides full-cycle QA and quality engineering and ensures high software quality.

 In this week's episode, we talked about the ramifications of the recent Climate Report by the United Nations which declared the climate crisis as a code red for humanity. We spoke to Ali Fenn, the president of ITRenew, on the impact that the I.T. industry has on climate change.   

In this episode you’ll hear from Scott Johnson, senior director of product management at Synopsys, about how application security has evolved over the years, what security challenges developers face today, and the “must-haves” for rapid scanning solutions. Find out more about Synopsys' scanning solutions at synopsys.com.

Getting an open-source project hosted by a foundation can provide a lot of opportunities for growth, such as through increased marketing and awareness. In this episode we spoke with Torin Sandall, VP of Open Source at Styra, about the process of donating Open Policy Agent (OPA) to the CNCF and its journey up to its recent graduation. 

Today we’re going to be talking about recent advancements by Scrum.org  that include a new Professional Agile Leadership – Evidence-Based Management (PAL-EBM) training course and about  Evidence-Based Management (EBM) itself.EBM is a framework that was created in 2014 as an Agile approach to help leaders guide their teams toward continuously improving customer outcomes, organizational capabilities,  and leading to positive business results.With me to talk about EBM and the new course are Patricia Kong and Kurt Bittner who work in enterprise agility at Scrum.org 

In this week's podcast, we talk about the uptake in value stream, and the number of companies that now hang their hats on the topic. Listen in as we speak with Lance Knight, president and COO at ConnectALL, and a speaker at our VSMcon events. He highlights what he says is the number one thing a value stream platform needs to do.

 In this week's episode, we spoke about continuous delivery (CD), the premise of delivering safely when you want to.So far, the number of companies adopting CD seems to be behind what was originally projected by the Continuous Delivery Foundation, and the difficulty of getting started may be a culprit.We spoke to Ravi Lachman, an evangelist at Harness, about the challenges as well as benefits of CD. 

In this week's episode, we spoke with Dr. Christina Hupy, senior education program manager at GitLab about how DevOps is usually missing from computer science curriculums at universities, and what’s needed in order to provide an educational experience that prepare students for the development world."

With the Tokyo Olympics well underway, many cybersecurity insiders are still on high alert that the event could still face an onslaught of cyberattacks. In this podcast episode, we covered why the event is such a big target for hackers, what the threat landscape looks like, what defenses should be in place, and more together with Lisa Plaggemier, the interim executive director at the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA),  a nonprofit, public-private partnership promoting cybersecurity and privacy education and awareness. 

In this week's episode, we spoke about what ModelOps is and what it's ideal for. Joining us is Seth Clark, the co-founder and head of product at Modzy, a software platform for organizations and developers to responsibly deploy, manage, and get value from AI at scale.