There are indications that M&As are increasing again in as the world recovers from the pandemic. The companies need to be digitally transformed again. These can include reduction in workers’ efficiency, deterioration in customer service quality and even temporary shutdowns in production.

On the one hand, you can use the experience gained when the pandemic destabilized the market, but on the other – significant flexibility is necessary, as the situation keeps dynamically changing, what with new sanctions being imposed on Russia and Belarus all the time. And information technology has conveniently made it possible to greatly improve the effectiveness of managing operational risks.

A successful completion of an IT project requires planning, sharing responsibilities, implementation and, above all, teamwork. If the project is large and complex, team needs SAFe — Scaled Agile Framework.

Many manual testers would like to start their journey with developing automated tests, however, without a good learning path and some technical background, the road seems to be a bit bumpy. What skills should you develop to become a professional test automation engineer?

Agile testing is the new normal. There is no coming back to the waterfall approach in development or in testing. How to implement agile development right and to deliver quality software on time in an agile environment?

A Data Lake is not a tool, nor a specific solution or product that a company can buy, install, and use. As a reference architecture, it is an organization’s mode of approach to using data in its operations. How to introduce the Data Lake and stay compliant with industry regulations?

A review of low and no-code tools, programming libraries and packages that can be used by enterprises, as well as by smaller companies to boost their test automation. Some are new, others have already been on the market for a while. All of them are worth giving a try.

When IT projects grow to a large scale, original agile is not enough. If you have hundreds of people involved in your project, you need a managing superstructure and new roles. SAFe adds a structure to agile, which is built of additional roles and ceremonies.

Consumers want better service, better user experience, better functionality, new products and new solutions, RIGHT NOW. This creates enormous pressure, so companies race to innovate and launch quickly. But there are bear traps: innovation and development go hand in hand with technical debt.

How did governments deal with digital tools in their battles against the epidemic? Did any country fare significantly better than others? In the long run of the pandemic, Germany has made several important decisions and developed relatively successful procedures to manage the COVID-19.