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What the Next 20 Million Devs Want — With Tiff in Tech and Stereotype Breakers’ Masha Zvereva

The world is shortly going to need another 20 million developers, and with over 1,000 engineering leaders joining us for INTERACT on April 7th, there’s no better time to talk to two people who have captured the minds of millions of developers - and will be featured at INTERACT - Tiffany Janzen and Masha Zvereva.

In addition to their own tech careers, both women have become prominent voices in the dev community, Tiffany is most well-known for her Tiff in Tech YouTube channel and Masha for her company Stereotype Breakers.

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4 Benefits of Empowering Your Team’s Security Champions

In today’s software development culture, there is an ever-increasing need for management to drive empowerment within their teams. You need to seek out, identify, and empower someone who can act as your team’s security champion. Find at least one champion to start, and add more if they are available. As you grow, you may even consider assembling a Security Champions team. 

What Makes a Security Champion?

Security champions should have some security background or knowledge of cyber security, as well as being willing, able, and motivated to learn much more. Your champion can be a current team member or a qualified contractor/consultant, he/she has to have a deep knowledge of the team’s goals is necessary. A security champion needs to be a positive person that can offer diligent observations and constructive suggestions to the team. 

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Ensuring Quality Code that Fits Your Business

Modern businesses run on code - and ensuring code quality is crucial to success.  To get the inside scoop on Quality Assurance (QA), I talked with Erika Chestnut, Head of QA at Calendly at what you need to do to set up QA that works for your business needs, how to socialize the right values for your team, what not to do, and how to adapt these processes when necessary.  

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What Is Developer Culture?

A developer culture prioritizes the people that make it all happen.
"I can tell how much this story means to you. It makes me wish I could've experienced that with a Development Team."

This is what another Scrum Master told me after we took turns during a recent training to share a success story about a Development Team. I've heard this many times before.

What does this say about Development Teams out there? Why is there such a strong emphasis on the people needed for the process and so little on the people doing the work?