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Oh, it’s that time of the year again. As the temperature drops and turkeys sell out in celebration of Thanksgiving, retailers all over North America are getting ready for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the holiday (and made up holiday) that serve as perfect case studies for the unstoppable shift towards online shopping.
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The Scrum Master (SM), in the Scrum process, requires individuals to wear many hats and perform well in varied situations. Although the roles of facilitator and team coach often come to mind when thinking of the SM, this crucial role goes beyond “removing impediments” and providing moral support to the rest of team. Below, I’ll break down some of the areas that the SM is in charge of and the ways a successful SM leads to successful product delivery and client satisfaction.
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Now that Bridge applications are open again, we’ve gotten a lot of questions about what it’s like to be in the program. So this week we sat down with three alumni to chat about their Bridge experience. Who better to speak about what it’s really like than the students?
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AngularConnect, Europe’s largest Angular conference, took place on November 7 and 8 in London, England. As the premium sponsor, Rangle had the honor of being the keynote presenter during the second day of the conference. Our CTO, Yuri Takhteyev, took the stage to share the thrilling story of how far both Angular, the leading open source JavaScript application framework, and Rangle had come in the past four years.
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At Rangle, we realize that while we try to maintain the team-first approach to quality as defined in the Scrum Guide, there are just some things that our Business Quality Analysts (BQAs) are better at. The role of the BQA on a development team at Rangle is not as a tester as in other organizations, as my colleague Eric has already alluded to in his article BQAs: Why We Combined the Business and Quality Analyst Roles. We help to ensure that the Scrum Team develops cross-functional skills in testing and in story writing; we’re essentially Quality Coaches who work to assist our team members to adopt a testing mindset while thinking of quality from the product’s inception.
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Whether you’re interested in expanding the online presence of your brick and mortar business, or optimizing your digital store, there have never been more exciting times to discuss eCommerce, traditional retail and the technologies that will affect both. Today we will focus on AI (specifically on machine learning) and how the stores of the very near future will require you and your team to leverage it.
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Rangle has acquired key insights doing Agile software development projects for a diverse group of clients. In this article, we take a look at when testing ought to happen, which parts of it are actually worth doing, and how to tell.
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As we’ve discussed in previous articles, the role of the QA has transformed over the years. Affected by a shift towards Continuous Delivery, technological advances (such as A.I. and machine learning) and changing expectations from clients and their own teams alike, the role of QAs of today isn’t what it used to be a few years ago. Naturally, the skills that will be required of them in the future will also evolve.