Software Development

Story point normalization — what’s the point?

When using story points, it's a challenge is to normalize your delivery pointing scale across multiple teams. Here are a few ideas for ensuring a consistent baseline

What CIOs need to know about open source forking

Forking is a concept that can strike terror into the heart of any CIO that relies on open source software. Hereu2019s how to make sure youu2019re on the right side of the split.

MariaDB reduce admin overhead for DevOps teams

New version of MaxScale software adds support for data streaming, enterprise security and high availability to cut administration overhead for DevOps teams.

26 open source projects from Linux’s 25 years

How to manage directories in Linux using the command line

Learn the basics of directory management in Linux using the command line tool.

LibreOffice celebrates its 6th anniversary with bug fixes and minor improvements

What started as an OpenOffice fork has become a major open source project.

Container management war heats up with release of Kubernetes 1.4

What Docker Engine has done for containers, Google's Kubernetes is doing for container management.rn

Qualcomm sets up competition to stimulate IoT innovation

"Invent-Off" pits two teams against each other to create a life-saving invention in three days.

MapR helps developers leverage analytics with microservices

New capabilities in MapR Technologies Converged Data Platform help developers and administrators use microservices to integrate operations and analytics.

DocuSign continues to build out digital transaction management platform

Investment pays off for unicorn, as customer list grows, partners accumulate and standards fall in place.