This year's International Women's Day has the motto "Let's all choose to challenge" - because change follows challenge. Globally, biases and inequalities are to be identified and highlighted by celebrating the successes and achievements of women, among other things. But more equality can...
You could already read five important IT trends in the last blog post. Here are five more topics on the agenda for 2021 and the challenges that come with them.
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In an international comparison, Germany is not perceived as a leading tech nation in digitization, there is also a lack of "big players"; That surprises many other nations." This is one of the results of a survey by the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ). It is about the plans of the...
Increasingly powerful computers, larger amounts of data and more precise models as well as the forecasts derived from them convey a deceptive feeling of security and predictability in many areas. The surprise is all the greater when seemingly unexpected events, such as the corona pandemic that has been rampant since the beginning of January 2020, occur - and...
A software project is like climbing a mountain. The more complex the requirements and the greater the fall height, the more important it is to have good protection. Good tests that cover all the important requirements are essential for this. These can be manual tests or automated tests such as in...
To start the weekend, we'll give you a few fun facts about JavaScript. Take a look at René's blog post about curiosities that you may not have known about. A bacterium quickly turns into a banana...
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At the beginning of the year, the IT consulting firm it-economics expanded its management team and appointed new associate partners. The management relied on long-standing employees with excellent expertise in IT project management. The new associate partners are Georg Filios, Peter Hesselmann, Markus Huber and Tobias Pregler. In addition, Klaus...
At the beginning of a new project, the software developer faces the challenge of designing the architecture of the program code to be sustainable. In addition to easy maintenance, low dependency on specific libraries and independent testing options, readability should also be the focus of a successful software architecture. Reduced development time for...
You're sitting there with Planning Poker cards in hand and you're supposed to be guessing at those weird "story points." And you secretly ask yourself: "Why don't we actually estimate in person days? “Because participants in CSM courses keep asking me exactly this question, I ask...
For software to be successful, it is no longer enough that it works well. She must feel good feel. Successful companies such as Google, Facebook and IBM therefore anchor design thinking deeply in their corporate culture in order to ensure this good feeling for the customer. They use extensive data...