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Dew Drop – May 6, 2025 (#4413)

TechBash 2025 Keynotes Announced, Docker MCP Catalog and Toolkit introduced for AI agents, and Teams AI Library and MCP support updated.
Web & Cloud Development highlights include error handling in Minimal API apps, Azure services comparison, and improving WebStorm's performance.
Insights on migrating Xamarin apps to .NET MAUI, nuances of StringComparison.InvariantCulture, and best practices for shared libraries in .NET apps.
AI updates cover remote MCP server registration, Azure ML features, Generative AI for SDKs, and the benefits of vibe coding.
Discussions on observability, Flutter DataGrids for trading apps, Android Material 3 design leak, and exploring mirror fabric for 3D printing.
Podcasts cover AI code generation, Agile history, cybersecurity, developer trends, and insights on microservices.
Events and community updates, along with database insights on MySQL, SQL Server ML integration, Postgres, and SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop.
PowerShell release announcement and diverse topics like OpenAI's evolution, Windows 11 Insider builds, wind energy lawsuits, and the 20th anniversary of Open Document Format.
Additional link collections featuring AWS updates, reading lists, and book recommendations on user experience design and writing.

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The Most Powerful Meeting That Improves Software Project Performance by 300% or more.

Working as a software engineer in Japan, the author experienced chronic overtime and project failures despite team efforts and financial investment.
The author initially believed that technological skills were crucial for project success and overlooked project management principles.
Upon working overseas and encountering Scrum project management, the author realized the significance of this framework in saving time and resources.
Scrum, a popular project management framework, focuses on achieving exceptional customer value and is credited with significantly improving software project performance.

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BONUS: Software Engineers are Paid to Solve Problems, Not Write Code! With John Crickett

John Crickett challenges the misconception that software engineers are predominantly code writers, emphasizing the importance of problem-solving for customers.
Engineers should bridge the gap between technical implementation and business value for effective solutions.
Isolation of engineering teams from customers hinders understanding of real problems, as highlighted by John Crickett.
Customer involvement, as advocated by Extreme Programming, ensures immediate feedback and a tighter problem-solution loop.
John warns of the risk of obsolescence for engineers solely focused on coding, as AI advancements threaten code generation tasks.
Engineers must cultivate business context understanding to add unique value beyond code implementation.
Curiosity about the 'why' behind coding tasks is crucial for engineers in understanding business goals and providing valuable solutions.
Creating an engineering culture that values problem-solving starts with leadership setting the tone and reflecting core values.
John recommends developing the skill of asking good questions to uncover underlying challenges and contribute meaningfully to business strategy.
John Crickett, an advocate for empowering engineers and managers, emphasizes the shift towards problem-solving as key for software engineering success.

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The Downfall of the Scrum Master Role: A Change Agent's Perspective

The Scrum Master role has transitioned from being a change agent to primarily a meeting facilitator in many organizations, impacting its effectiveness in driving transformation.
Certification factories have contributed to the downfall of the Scrum Master role by focusing on technical certifications rather than genuine change management competencies.
The '90-Day Agile Coach Phenomenon' sees individuals with limited experience branding themselves as Agile Coaches, lacking the depth needed for transformative change.
Misaligned leadership expectations often lead to disillusionment with the Scrum Master role, overlooking its essence as a servant leader focused on building team capability and driving sustainable change.
The evolution of organizational structures towards traditional hierarchies poses challenges for Scrum Masters seeking to implement agile principles within rigid frameworks.
Effective Scrum Masters require systems thinking and organizational design competencies to address root causes of impediments and foster organizational learning.
The true scope of a Scrum Master's role extends far beyond event facilitation to encompass team development, stakeholder representation, organizational change facilitation, and culture shaping.
Scrum Masters often face a responsibility-authority gap, leading to stress and burnout as they lack the necessary influence to drive transformation outcomes.
Raising certification standards, redefining leadership expectations, and providing mentorship opportunities are essential steps to reclaiming the transformative power of the Scrum Master role.
Building resilience through support networks, reflection practices, clear boundaries, and deliberate recovery strategies is vital for sustaining Scrum Masters in their change agent roles.

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Alvinashcraft

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Dew Drop – May 5, 2025 (#4412)

The Dew Drop for May 5, 2025 covers various topics in technology and development.
GitHub Copilot Adventures, WinDev, AI Travel Agents, and modes of Copilot are highlighted.
Articles on AI in WPF applications, .NET documentation, Electron 36.0.0, and HTMX extensions are discussed.
Topics on vcpkg updates, Rust modules vs. C# namespaces, and event-driven architecture in .NET are explored.
AI-related articles cover customer support, security practices, Docker CLI, and AI-powered technical writing.
Design, methodology, and testing topics include Jekyll posts via GitHub Actions, test execution visualization, and a human-centered approach to office return.
Mobile, IoT, and game development articles touch on Swift 6.1, Flutter app development, and object behavior in games.
Podcasts featuring Microsoft engineers, AI software development, React Native accessibility, and DevOps challenges in 2025 are highlighted.
Events like Global Azure 2025, new team members, and open-source security initiatives are covered.
Database news on RavenDB, SharePoint updates, and miscellaneous topics like tech job trends, Windows 11 migration, and science budget cuts are discussed.
Additional link collections on F#, Azure, reading notes, and a geek shelf recommendation complete the diverse range of content.

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Elite Performance Is Wasted on Feature Factories

Elite performance in DevOps is about running more experiments with high confidence to enable organizational learning.
Achieving elite performance involves deploying early, often, with low failure rates, and fast recovery in DevOps.
Elite performers in DevOps can deploy many times a day with lead times under an hour, low failure rates, and fast recovery times.
Embedding technical practices like continuous delivery is essential for achieving elite performance in software delivery.
Feature-driven teams in software development can fall into the trap of delivering every feature request, leading to software failure.
Experimental teams focus on maximizing learning through iterative experimentation and removing what doesn't work.
Continuous delivery contributes to shorter feedback cycles and aims to create impact rather than just more features.
Short feedback loops in software development decrease risk, reduce rework, improve well-being, and maximize learning.
Delayed feedback in software development can lead to hidden market risks and accumulation of proxy feedback.
Case study comparisons show the importance of an experimental approach in achieving desired outcomes and learning from attempts.
Elite performance allows for fluid experimentation and faster accumulation of knowledge in software development.

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How a Consumer Services Company Embraced Professional Scrum to Fuel Growth

A consumer services company embraced Professional Scrum to improve product development and team collaboration.
Challenges included shifting priorities, inconsistent execution, and lack of clear ownership due to rapid growth.
The organization lacked full alignment around Professional Scrum, mainly going through the motions without embracing values.
Initiative led by Head of Operations aimed to shift from rudimentary Scrum use to Professional Scrum for better agility.
Key transformations included forming cross-functional Scrum Teams, empowering self-management, and introducing dedicated Scrum Masters.
Scrum was extended to physical product development with creative translations to adapt concepts to a culinary environment.
The Scrum methodology in culinary development led to reduced development time, consistent quality, and improved market responsiveness.
Adoption of Professional Scrum resulted in doubled revenue, increased release frequency, and significant metric improvements.
Scrum facilitated faster feature delivery, increased revenue by 5%, and decreased development time by 79%.
Improved product quality and market responsiveness contributed to enhanced customer satisfaction and business growth.

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CTO Series: Jussi Mononen on the Human Side of Software Development and Technical Leadership

Jussi Mononen, CTO of CarbonLink, shares insights on software development, technical strategy alignment, and human elements in tech implementations through Agile principles.
Agile transformed Jussi's perspective on software development, emphasizing the importance of human dynamics over technical challenges.
Maintaining software is ongoing, with software truly 'done' only when it no longer exists.
Direct customer communication is vital for understanding core problems.
Creating a technical strategy aligning with business objectives requires maintainability and adaptability considerations.
Balancing technology choices includes evaluating familiarity, customer fulfillment, flexibility, and organizational speed.
Collaboration between tech and business thrives on respect, trust, focus on well-considered decisions, human potential maximization, and value for diverse viewpoints.
Strategic roadmapping entails weekly reviews, Trello use, seeking diverse signals, and communicating investment priorities.
Overcoming technical challenges involves handling conflicting needs, establishing shared direction, focusing on people, and attention to backlog items.
Jussi's leadership philosophy prioritizes context understanding, role models, continuous learning, and practical experiences.

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Benefits of Automation Testing: A Complete Guide

Automation testing is crucial for modern software development, offering benefits such as cost efficiency, increased test coverage, accuracy, and time savings.
Automated tests run repeatedly without extra cost, catching bugs early and preventing costly fixes later on.
Automated testing allows for testing more features in less time, providing better insights and reducing human error.
Automation fits seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring immediate feedback and scalability of testing processes.
Different types of automated testing include unit testing, functional testing, regression testing, smoke testing, black box testing, and integration testing.
Challenges of test automation include high initial setup cost, technical skill requirements, test maintenance, and limitations for some test types.
Best practices for implementing automation testing include choosing the right tools, prioritizing high-impact tests, regularly updating tests, training the team properly, and monitoring test results.
Automation testing improves software quality, saves time, reduces costs, and leads to better, faster, and more reliable testing.
Automating tests can simulate multiple users efficiently, contributing to higher-quality products and smoother software development.
Investing in test automation is a step towards achieving higher quality products and enhancing software development processes.
Written by Michiel Mulders, a blockchain developer passionate about technical content, marketing, UX psychology, and entrepreneurship.

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A Self-Guided Performance Assessment for Agile Delivery Teams

Teams often neglect to address failing builds and tests, lacking curiosity and follow-through into production.
This article proposes a self-guided performance assessment for agile delivery teams to evaluate how they work together.
Focusing on team dynamics and collaboration, the assessment aims to complement existing delivery performance metrics like DORA and Flow Metrics.
The framework encourages teams to assess themselves across key dimensions such as collaboration, planning, code quality, and operational readiness.
It provides reflection prompts and signs of struggle in various categories to help teams identify areas for improvement.
Teams are advised to use the tool during retrospectives, make it their own by customizing dimensions, and leverage metrics to enrich discussions.
The assessment promotes self-awareness, open conversations, and a focus on continuous improvement for high-performing teams.
Teams can decide their performance level and explore actionable insights to enhance their working dynamics.
This reflective framework serves as a resource for enhancing team cohesion, fostering trust, and strengthening overall capability.
By initiating intentional reflection, teams can adapt, improve, and succeed not just in meeting deadlines but in evolving together.
The focus is on enhancing team performance by considering not just the 'what' but also the 'how' of delivery.

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BONUS: Nesrine Changuel shares how to create emotionally connected, delightful products!

Nesrine Changuel shares insights on creating emotionally connected, delightful products based on her experience at companies like Skype, Spotify, Google Meet, and Chrome.
Delight in products goes beyond functionality to build emotional connections by anticipating user needs and delivering joy and surprise simultaneously.
Nesrine encourages organizations to be proactive in understanding user needs beyond complaints, which can lead to creating delightful experiences users may not explicitly request.
Understanding emotional demotivators like 'Zoom fatigue' can help in developing features that address unspoken needs, such as Google Meet's 'minimize self view' feature.
The Delight Grid Framework helps balance functional and emotional needs, prioritizing features that create deep delight by solving real problems while fostering emotional connections.
Nesrine recommends using customer journey maps to identify emotional highs and lows, enabling teams to amplify positive moments and transform negative experiences into delightful ones.
A real-world example shows how addressing emotional pain points, like bill-splitting anxiety, can turn negative experiences into delightful ones that enhance customer loyalty.
Creating a culture of delight requires a shared understanding and language across all teams, from marketing to engineering, to ensure alignment in creating emotionally connected experiences.
Nesrine Changuel specializes in designing emotionally connected, delightful products and introduces a framework for creating lovable tech experiences that drive user loyalty and differentiation.
Recommended readings include 'Emotional Design' by Don Norman, 'Designing for Emotion' by Aaron Walter, and 'The Lean Product Playbook' by Dan Olsen.

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Fewer Roles, Stronger Teams, Closer to the Customer

The author reflects on the distinction between product managers (PM) and product owners (PO) after consulting an AI for clarification, emphasizing the importance of simplicity in roles to stay close to the customer.
Based on the author's experience at Amazon, where there were no intermediaries between those framing the problem and those solving it, simplicity in roles embedded customer understanding into every position and decision-making process.
The article highlights that in enterprise and operations technology, overly splitting product roles can dilute ownership and weaken the connection to customer needs, suggesting that clear ownership should be prioritized over title proliferation.
The conclusion emphasizes the importance of fewer, stronger roles to maintain proximity to customers, encouraging digital and engineering leaders to focus on customer understanding, quality of products, and effective decision-making for organizational success.

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Level Up Your Tech Game: The Essentials of Software Development

Software development is about solving real problems and creating delightful experiences for users.
The process begins with ideation, planning, and gathering requirements before diving into coding.
Design and architecture are crucial, involving decisions on tech stack, user experience, and modular code.
Testing, deployment, and continuous improvement are key steps to ensure quality and user satisfaction in software development.

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What AI Knows and What Your Team Doesn’t

To enhance AI adoption in Agile teams, understanding overlaps and gaps between human insights and AI is crucial.
Utilizing the Johari Window model can strategically map collaboration between humans and AI in Agile teams.
The goal is to expand the 'Shared Known' quadrant, where AI leverages team insights and vice versa.
Integrating AI effectively into Agile teams involves understanding shared and hidden dimensions of knowledge.
Using Tuckman's Team Development Model helps plan AI integration based on team development stages.
Integrating AI into product management lifecycle involves leveraging AI for insights, creativity, validation, and customer engagement.
Successful AI integration empowers teams to adapt proactively based on behavioral models and synthesized feedback.
AI should not replace human product thinking but should be seen as a collaborative partner enhancing decision-making.
AI tools can aid in analyzing data throughout product lifecycle but may lack the nuanced understanding of human emotions or context.
The key is for product teams to leverage AI's capabilities while recognizing the importance of human judgment and empathy in product development.

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Carmen Jurado: Beyond the Backlog—How Great Product Owners Embrace Team Collaboration

Carmen Jurado emphasizes the importance of Product Owners standing with their teams and recognizing achievements as team efforts.
Exemplary Product Owners have a deep understanding of Agile methodologies, enabling them to support their teams effectively.
An anti-pattern discussed is the novice Product Owner who tries to handle everything independently, leading to challenges like an oversized backlog and lack of team engagement.
Global Agile Summit 2025 in Tallinn, Estonia, from May 18th – 20th, 2025, promises real-world Agile success stories and strategies for impact.

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