As communications have improved and productivity platforms like Slack have made it easier than ever for scattered team members to stay in touch, virtual working has started to look like the revolution the gig economy needed. More than a third of the US workforce has said that they have telecommuted and the World Economic Forum has described flexible work both as a “general trend” and “one of the...
DevOps is intended to be a faster and more efficient way for enterprises to roll out software. It replaces the traditional stages of planning, development, testing and implementation with a concurrent system in which development, testing and implementation are merged to form a single, seamless whole. It’s a relatively new way of working—the system emerged from an Agile conference in 2008—but it’s...
The name of the end product might be decided by ad men, focus groups and marketing people who think tags are for displaying brand names, but while a project is in development, it’s the programmers who get to come up with the working titles. It sounds creative and fun, an opportunity for geeks to undo their ponytails, let their hair down and come up with something cool and funky. Often they do...
The days when you can learn a trade and stick to it throughout life are long gone. You might not change careers seven times or even five times but you can expect your work to change. Advertising channels rise and fall. Content that worked once loses its effect. Televisions become smart and screens becomes wall-sized, pocket-sized, and foldable. With each of those changes comes opportunities. As...
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