Dave van Stein

Many models and perspectives describe the complexity of an organization. In the end, it all boils down to people interacting with technology using processes. Sociologist Dr. Ron Westrum provided a typology of organizational cultures, including a generative type. Key characteristics for a generative culture include: Oriented to performance High cooperation Failure leads to inquiry Share [] The post The three forms of CI/CD appeared first on Xebia Blog.

Most threat model approaches (like e.g. STRIDE) assume you have a technical overview like a Data Flow Diagram. An interesting question therefore is; can you threat model when there is no such thing available? A common situation would be when your are forming an epic, but as an exercise lets take a legal contract or [] The post Threat modeling without a diagram appeared first on Xebia Blog.

Agile teams often use the concept of personas to create more tailored user stories, so could you use evil personas to describe malicious behavior? Personas are synthetic biographies of fictitious users of the future product and a powerful technique to describe the users and customers of a product in order to make the right product [] The post Threat Modeling Start using evil personas appeared first on Xebia Blog.