We all know there’s a chronic imbalance when it comes to DevOps talent: High demand and limited supply. Look no further than a 2021 DevOps Institute report which found that while 60% of organizations are hiring for such roles, 64% of IT leaders have a tough time finding skilled DevOps professionals. And it’s not just the […]
Creating Career Opportunities in Quality Engineering
Software testing is the thread that connects code to customers, ensuring that the code created by development teams works for users and supports customer loyalty. But as the demands of software development are transformed by DevOps and customer expectations rise, the career and role of the software tester is evolving rapidly. Customer expectations have made […]
mabl Makes Move to Automate Accessibility Testing
mabl today made available in beta an automated accessibility testing capability that it added to its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for testing applications. Dan Belcher, mabl co-founder, said given the increased accessibility requirements included in various compliance mandates, there is a greater need to address these issues as early as possible in the application development life […]
Inclusivity & Diversity in the Workplace – Techstrong TV
Eamon will discuss ServiceNow’s new cross-functional organization – Center of Excellence for Accessibility – to make the Now Platform more inclusive for a wide range of diverse needs as well as why Eamon was chosen as the new VP & Global Head of Accessibility. The video and a transcript of the conversation are below. […]
MediaOps, Boca Code Award ‘Engineer the Change’ Scholarship
I am really proud to announce that, in partnership with Boca Code, MediaOps has awarded a scholarship for the Fall 2021 term to the Software Engineering Career Course, a 10-week rigorous and fast-paced coding boot camp from Boca Code. Alina Maliuk, a first-generation immigrant from Ukraine, is the recipient. The Engineer the Change scholarship was […]
EP 14: What Have We Learned?
The past year-plus has brought disruption and opportunity to businesses and software teams all over the world. Change is inevitable, but 2020 was a year of massive change: businesses pivoted, supply chains were disrupted, customer expectations shifted to contactless services, digital transformation projects accelerated, new digital experiences were created, the move to the cloud jumped into high gear and our ability to create and deliver software was elevated to an essential capability for business.
Eliminating Unconscious Bias in Tech Recruitment
For a more diverse workforce, businesses need to be aware of the role of unconscious bias in recruitment and take the necessary steps to remove it where possible The business case for diverse organizations is clear: A more diverse and inclusive business consistently delivers better results. From a legal perspective, with a variety of discrimination […]
Inclusion, Collaboration and DevOps: Seeing the Bigger Picture
The last half of 2017 was pretty amazing. I wrote a brief post about the Inclusive Collaboration Summit I attended in London last July. Sallyann Freudenberg and Katherine Kirk started this campaign to raise awareness around neuro-diversity in tech. With respect toward the silence experiments I kept my original post very short. It was great […]