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5 User Centered Development Tactics to Start Using Today!

December 23, 2019 Dec 23, 2019 12/23/19
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With a mission to “empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more”— it’s increasingly important for Microsoft employees to have a conversation about User Centered Design4 (UCD). As developers, we are building products for people to use, so we need to ensure we are putting them at the center of it.

Intro to GitHub Actions

December 19, 2019 Dec 19, 2019 12/19/19
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GitHub Actions makes it easy to automate all your software workflows, now with world-class CI/CD. Build, test, and deploy your code right from GitHub. Make code reviews, branch management, and issue triaging work the way you want.

DevOps Handbook review

December 17, 2019 Dec 17, 2019 12/17/19
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The DevOps Handbook describes the aspects of working toward a satisfying result for a customer while handling apparently conflicting goals within the organization. The book explains through case studies how companies have resolved the apparent contradictions, aligning everyone’s goals can bring about greater rewards and process improvements.

Microsoft Security Code Analysis – a tool that seamlessly empowers customers to enable security controls in your CI/CD pipeline

December 2, 2019 Dec 2, 2019 12/2/19
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We believe that Secure DevOps encompasses both a set of practices and a mindset shift to help customer adopt security principles and practices aligned with the culture shift and integrated with the practices, of DevOps. Secure DevOps practices include and build on those practices that are part of the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle.

Rastreamento de projetos cross-team a nível de portfólio com Azure DevOps Boards

November 27, 2019 Nov 27, 2019 11/27/19
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A inclusão das extensões Feature timeline and Epic Roadmap no processo de gerenciamento de portfólio está ajudando meus clientes a tornar a vida do PMO ainda mais fácil do que antes. A extensão Delivery Plans permite atualizações de portfólio colaborativas, constantes e automatizadas. Isso permitiu que todos evoluíssem no processo de desenvolv

Advanced Error Handling with Power Automate

November 22, 2019 Nov 22, 2019 11/22/19
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Sr Consultant Adam Toth demonstrates how to handle errors properly in Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow), including expected errors from APIs and connectors, and how to deal with throttling conditions (HTTP 429 Responses). Power Automate’s default response to errors from connectors is pretty simple – exit the workflow right ...

Simplifying Azure DevOps Pipelines with Decorators

November 13, 2019 Nov 13, 2019 11/13/19
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In this post, Sr. App Dev Manager Bryan Soltis demonstrates how to use DevOps Pipeline Decorators to standardize complex pipeline requirements. When it comes to DevOps, there is no shortage of the amount of customizations companies need. From specialized environments to quality checks, every business has their own recipe for determining...

Outlook Email Automation with PowerShell

November 8, 2019 Nov 8, 2019 11/8/19
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In this post, App Dev Manager Edward Fry demonstrates how to use Microsoft Outlook Object Library from PowerShell. Introduction Time is a precious commodity. For many professionals, there just aren’t enough hours to accomplish all the tasks in a day. Thankfully, today’s world thrives on automation. Computers can perform painstaking...