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How to build a successful agile development culture – and why your business needs one

CIO

To keep pace with the growing complexity of software development, organizations have spent years working to implement agile practices into their developer experience. It enables teams to deliver value faster, with greater quality and predictability, and greater aptitude to respond to change.

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The Good and the Bad of Apache Kafka Streaming Platform

Altexsoft

In this article, we’ll explain why businesses choose Kafka and what problems they face when using it. We say ‘xerox’ speaking of any photocopy, whether or not it was created by a machine from the Xerox corporation. We describe information search on the Internet with just one word — ‘google’. What is Kafka? Practically, nothing.

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Interpreting predictive models with Skater: Unboxing model opacity

O'Reilly Media - Data

Data Scientist Cathy O’Neil has recently written an entire book filled with examples of poor interpretability as a dire warning of the potential social carnage from misunderstood models—e.g., There is also a trade off in balancing a model’s interpretability and its performance.

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Breaking the Deadlock Between User Experience and Developer Experience

A List Apart

Even in developed nations, people on mobile devices see spotty coverage, flaky wifi connections, and coverage interruptions (like train tunnels or country roads). In early 2013, less than 14% of all web traffic came from mobile devices; today, that number has grown to 53%. UX and performance have issues in practice. My sister loves dogs.

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How to Launch a Successful Product: Timing, Roles, and Product Launch Checklist 

Altexsoft

Maybe a team didn’t prioritize the features and lost a lot of time and money fixing too many mistakes. Maybe a team didn’t prioritize the features and lost a lot of time and money fixing too many mistakes. Or a developer failed to test the app with real users to verify usage scenarios, hoping his idea will take off by itself.

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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Even though I will from time-to-time slip and refer to something as “Best Practices&# I am attempting to extricate that phrase from my vocabulary.

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Should CEOs Have Term Limits? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion.