Traditional development practices had precise roles and responsibilities. Team members were confined to those roles and were not supposed to think outside of them. The belief was that specialized roles allowed people to work faster by focusing on their work only. Traditional practices are being phased out by agile development. Team members are working more closely together. Specialized ro...

Last week I discussed the necessity for speed in Salesforce development. But speed is great only if it is matched with the same level of quality.Agile and DevOps have been widely adopted to quench our relentless pursuit for speed, with successful results. But we are struggling to find the right approach for quality validation and testing. Our desire for quality needs to match our quest fo...

Can you tell me what American Express, Apple, Google, and Spotify have in common?  They are all leaders in their industry and all promote a learning culture. Research by Edward Hess at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business wrote “companies that learn fastest and adapt well to changing environments perform best of over time.” These organization create a learning culture from t...