January 2024
Hold onto your keyboards, this edition of the Allstacks?get STACKED?newsletter is blazing into the new year with a carefully cultivated collection of industry happenings, updates from Allstacks HQ, community contributions, and of course, things that STACK.??
In the Bay Area? Allstacks is hosting a networking happy hour at the Atlassian offices on February 22nd in San Francisco and would love to see you!?Register here?and please forward to a friend!
Pssst! We're always looking for fresh content and contributions to highlight from our community members. Please?send any ideas or contributions our way!
If we highlight your contribution we'll send you some sweet sweet Allstacks SWAG.
?? Industry Happenings
A new whitepaper investigates the quality and maintainability of AI-assisted code compared to human written code.
The longest-running survey on Agile and sponsored by Digital.ai found that Agile is facing difficulties in medium and large enterprises.? One of the key problems identified is that there is a slowness, or even outright resistance in adopting Agile practices on the business side of larger companies.?
Interested in the full survey??Download it here.
The Pragmatic Engineer's response to the new that McKinsey is entering the arena of measuring developer productivity.
?? Stacking UP- From the Allstacks Team
We are EXCITED about this one.? Last week we made our software R&D cost capitalization tool generally available.? Check out the?product webcast recording.
Allstacks 2023 in Review
2023 was a rollercoaster year for all, including Allstacks.? Read about everything we were up to and shipped for our customers in 2023 in our?year in review?blog.
领英推荐
What is Value Stream Management?
In this second of four posts on the topic, Dr Krishna Kumar discusses the challenges in traditional, functionally-oriented approaches to system improvement in software development and emphasizes the importance of a value stream perspective for more effective and targeted improvements.?Read it here.
?? The more you know
You can quickly add, remove, or reorder columns in the Portfolio Report to prioritize the information that you want to see first.
Information immediately refreshes to reflect any changes.
What ways are your teams customizing your Portfolio Report? Do you have a specific configuration that you use on a daily basis??Let us know!
??? Community Spotlight
Ed Wiley
Ed Wiley is a senior executive with 25+ years of building, leading, and advising world-class machine learning, AI, and data science teams and projects. He’s worked with companies at various stages, from startup to Fortune 50. He’s also served as a Stanford PhD researcher, business consultant, executive, academic Chair, and more. Ed and his teams have wrestled with the thorny issues of using AI across countless contexts, and during his tenure in the field, he's learned what's critical to consider in building an AI practice or executing an AI project: In short, he knows what to do - and what NOT to do - when working with AI.?
Over the last decade his consulting has focused on serving mid caps and smaller large caps on engineering, data, and AI strategy and operations. Over the past 3 years this work has naturally shifted toward Generative AI, with efforts focused on strategy and technical implementation as well as capturing GenAI-related productivity opportunities.? You can visit his website for more information:?https://edwiley.com.
?? Things that STACK
Tetris was born in 1984 when Russian scientist Alexey Pajitnov developed the first version of Tetris on an Electronics 60. It wasn't until 1989 that the Tetris most of the world knows and loves was launched after Henk Rogers secured the handheld rights to Tetris and licensed it to Nintendo. Get the full historical timeline?here.