PMO Focus | Navigating the Transition to Agile: Gorillas in the Backlog by Allen Fordham
PMO Focus | Navigating the Transition to Agile: Gorillas in the Backlog by Allen Fordham

An important potential obstacle to digital modernization is the change in team social dynamics that accompanies a transition away from waterfall towards Agile software development. 

As teams maintain and modernize digital resources, it is very likely that they will at some point implement a form of ‘Agile hybrid’ approach. This is a logical and valuable step toward identifying a modern project management solution that fits the team’s specific needs. But transitioning to Agile Scrum project management can put pressure on team members. This shift in methodology requires not just learning new tools and adopting a very different day-to-day rhythm, but also means that every team member needs to redefine their relationships and interactions with their colleagues. This transition can be especially difficult because of the social expectations that accompany a team’s Agile transition.

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Margo Rabchenuk
Last Year, Everything was Copilot. This Year, Copilot is Everything. by Jim Wilcox
Last Year, Everything was Copilot. This Year, Copilot is Everything. by Jim Wilcox

Copilot’s journey from last year’s star feature to this year’s platform reflects Microsoft’s commitment to AI-powered innovation. Over the coming years, these tools that they are building will rebuild them, and probably us with them. As we discover and embrace these revolutionary AI times, Copilot is the forefront of the user experience in ways that even ChatGPT may be forgotten for. Last year, everything was Copilot. Ready or not, this year, Copilot is everything.

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Jim Wilcox
Semantic Search and RAG - a Powerful Combination by Seth Carney
Semantic Search and RAG - a Powerful Combination by Seth Carney

Semantic search specializes in determining which relevant documents or passages should be fed into a given RAG model based on user’s query. These techniques working in unison allow users to rapidly search through diverse knowledge bases and receive informative responses. Semantic search with RAG integration can provide tremendous productivity benefits at a relatively low cost.

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Seth Carney
Should AI Review Your Pull Requests? Probably. By Ed Lyons
Should AI Review Your Pull Requests? Probably. By Ed Lyons

There is a lot of talk about AI being used to help individual coders inside their development environments. Now we are seeing AI tools for reviewing pull requests. Is this the same thing? No. Even though these newer tools use the same underlying technology, a pull request to be reviewed by the team is its own institution in software development, one that is primarily about engineering, yet it involves human considerations.

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Ed Lyons
OKTA Authorization Using Microsoft Active Directory by Yuxin Wang
OKTA Authorization Using Microsoft Active Directory by Yuxin Wang

In recent years, OKTA has been very popular as a preferred solution for integrating security into web applications. A notable observation is the abundance of code examples available online for authentication purposes, whereas resources for authorization are comparatively scarce. In this article, I aim to outline the steps involved in utilizing OKTA's Active Directory integration specifically for authorization purposes.

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Yuxin WangOKTA, Authorization, MIcrosoft Active Directory, Authentication