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Warren Lynch – by Warren Lynch

When it comes to agile estimation, you can’t help but mention its basic principles: use relative estimation units (such as story points), promote detailed discussion of the content of user stories, form a consensus and commitment to the solution, and enhance the team through cohesive collaboration.

Azul – by Simon Ritter

Not all releases are created equal and, depending on how feature development phases align; some will have more features than others. JDK 16 contains quite a few new things, although several of them are continuations or finalization of incubator modules or preview features from earlier releases.

Forbes – by Aater Suleman

In IT, we are all too familiar with the 80/20 rule where 80% of efforts are spent keeping the lights on and 20% is spent on innovation. Within this 80/20 balance, an AltexSoft white paper reports that enterprises spend 80% of their IT budget managing and maintaining legacy systems. With increasing pressure from the business to drive product and service innovation, it’s little wonder that enterprises are on the lookout for ways to approach legacy application modernization.

Businesses in the financial technology industry are increasingly turning to outsourced solutions for their software development. Here’s how it can help this booming market.

The Internet of Things, or “IoT” for short, is about extending the power of the internet beyond computers and smartphones to a whole range of other things, processes, and environments. Here’s everything you need to know.

According to a 2017 report from the Project Management Institute (PMI), 14 percent of IT projects fail. However, that number only represents the total failures. Of the projects that didn’t fail outright, 31 percent didn’t meet their goals, 43 percent exceeded their initial budgets, and 49 percent were late.

HACKERNOON – by Browser London

If 2020 has proven anything, it’s that predicting the future is a mug’s game. With that said, here are the predictions for where front-end development is heading over the next 12 months. See what you think!

LogRocket – by Ejiro Asiuwhu

Blazor is a new Microsoft UI framework that uses a unique approach for leveraging C# .NET and the WebAssembly framework to create SPAs running in web browsers. It essentially allows a developer to build rich and interactive client-side applications with HTML, CSS, and C#. On the other hand, we have React: a declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces and UI components. What happens when a developer is interested in building for the SPAs but doesn’t want to deal with…

jaxenter – by Rich Sharples

What should you take into consideration when modernizing legacy applications? Is it always practical to toss out the old and roll in the new? Digital transformation sometimes involves getting rid of the old to make way for the new, but, more often than not, digital transformation is about modernizing legacy applications.

For the past ten years, digital transformation moved at a relatively slow pace, focusing mainly on improving products, processes, and the employee experience. Then COVID-19 hit, forcing IT decision-makers to prioritize their IT initiatives and increase digital investments.

When you hear or get notification that your software is nearing End of Life (EOL), it’s a bit disconcerting. It sounds so final, as though your software is just going to stop working on a certain date at a certain time. Rest easy, as this is not the case. The term is just very dramatic. We’ll go into what it really means later in the article.