Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

This exec loved my client and compared him quite favorably to his predecessor who, the exec said, regularly “inspired his team to underperformance.”. The essence of his answer was that the predecessor leader didn’t set high enough expectations for his team and failed to even follow through on the low bar that he did set.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

Kent Beck concluded , Measure developer productivity? He says a measurement based approach generates relatively weak improvements and significant distortion of incentives. If you did this exercise with your leadership team, youd probably get different answers. We use Extreme Programming as our model of how to develop software.

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Erik Bernhardsson

JUNE 7, 2020

Good/bad compensation systems. I'll start by stating what I think are goals and anti-goals: A good system doesn't waste money hiring new people when you can pay to keep existing people. A bad system keeps people below the salary that you would give them to keep them. Phew, that was a lot!

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

This resulting plan is created by the collaborative work of the entire Scrum Team.”. The Guide goes on to say that the team is expected to cover three topics: Why is the Sprint Valuable? So let’s peek in on our World’s Smallest Online Bookstore team that you’ll recall from other blog posts. What can be Done this Sprint?

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

JULY 15, 2024

Today, Mixbook is the #1 rated photo book service in the US with 26 thousand five-star reviews. This pivotal decision has been instrumental in propelling them towards fulfilling their mission, ensuring their system operations are characterized by reliability, superior performance, and operational efficiency.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 20, 2019

A never-ending debate is that about the quality of developers in India. It is said that most developers around the world begin coding at a ridiculously young age. Hence, we have always heard time and again that Indian developers are ok-to-mediocre coders, are not technically competent, and most times, clueless. ” (sic).

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CIO

JULY 18, 2023

The key to maintaining high-performing IT teams is to motivate them through challenging and interesting work — and, at the same time, assure they are rewarded and recognized for their achievements. At the same time, some of us must be developed to step into management roles oftentimes outside our comfort zone.

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CIO

JULY 21, 2023

As SaaS solutions gain greater market share, and build mindshare, operational know-how is becoming critical to both their development and evolution. One of the biggest issues for any development team is obtaining real and timely user feedback. Traditional development approaches can also cause lengthy release cycles.

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Apiumhub

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

As the organizers of the GSAS 2023 , we take pride in continuously monitoring new releases of software architecture books to extend invitations to their authors for our event. What’s even more exciting is that some of these authors will be generously raffling off copies of their software architecture books to our attendees!

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DataRobot

MAY 6, 2021

Common pitfalls include a lack of employee engagement, inadequate management support, poor or nonexistent cross-functional collaboration, and a lack of accountability.”. As I pulled books from my bookcase, packing them into boxes to go into storage, I found my Blockbuster Video membership card. AI won’t replace humans.

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Firemon

MARCH 12, 2025

Network security that leverages this technology enables organizations to identify threats faster, improve incident response, and reduce the burden on IT teams. Lets review the benefits of AI network security to help maintain your enterprises posture and walk through the steps to integrate it within your current processes.

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Altexsoft

OCTOBER 21, 2022

After trying all options existing on the market — from messaging systems to ETL tools — in-house data engineers decided to design a totally new solution for metrics monitoring and user activity tracking which would handle billions of messages a day. How Apache Kafka streams relate to Franz Kafka’s books. Practically, nothing.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Something as simple as a 360 Review, or as complex as a deep psychological profile (both with weighted emphasis on leadership aptitude) can point out an individual’s leadership capabilities. Any leader is only as good as his or her team’s desire to be led by them.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Better yet, for those of you bold enough to place yourself under what might be the harsh scrutiny of others, you can get the benefits of a mini leadeship 360 review by asking your co-workers to rate you as a leader. If you believe you possess a fully developed competency in a section give yourself 10 points. Section IV: Tactics.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

In fact, there are some very bright people who believe you cannot become a good leader without developing a mastery for using the word no as evidenced by the following quote from Tony Blair: “The art of leadership is saying no , not saying yes.” The perception that strong leaders say no and weak leaders say yes is simply flawed thinking.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Are our systems adequately modernized for security? Legacy systems are often inherently flawed because they weren’t designed to be defensible in the way more modern architectures — typically public or private clouds — are. The meetings and conversations should lead to the development or update of an incident response plan, he suggests.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This choice of two over three leads to software entropy, which is a case of “what’s done cannot be undone,” as Lady Macbeth says, or in tech terms, you’d say, “In a closed system such as software technology, a depleting quality of product cannot be improved over a period of time.”. And no doubt, these developers come at a lower cost.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

OCTOBER 12, 2021

When last we left our World’s Smallest Online Bookstore team, their Sprint was rocky. To have an effective Sprint Review story, let’s assume that they magically wound back the clock (shazam!) The team set “Have basic reader review system in place so book buyers can see a variety of opinions about a book” as their Sprint Goal.

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CIO

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This kind of wizardry requires tactics not typically found in business management guides (though you might find a few in the Book of Spells or the Necronomicon ). When I was a CIO in meetings where someone was unmotivated or in a bad mood, I’d just launch a Kinder Surprise at them. Friedman kept a case of the sweets in her office.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JULY 28, 2023

Assess the personality strengths and weaknesses of the candidate to understand whether they can execute responsibilities in the long run or not. For example, a front-end developer should have good knowledge of Python and front-end languages such as HTML/ CSS, Javascript, XML, etc. It’s time to break the old patterns of tech interviews.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Talk about this with your team, as early in the year as possible. A good example of this is how a “good&# tendency to a “ hard charger &# can turn “bad&# if you end up going overboard, getting too impatient, and steamrolling over people. Now is the time to get the team set for a fresh start. THEN , dive in.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In what follows, we flesh out the three assertions above with the bulk of the content explaining why it may be difficult to improve the poor success rate for business ideas. That is, the team responsible for doing the analysis often is motivated either implicitly or explicitly to find evidence of success.

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James Shore

MARCH 29, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Test-Driven Development.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 20, 2010

They were your class presidents, team captains, club leaders, and the people who held virtually all the available leadership positions you can imagine early in life. If those three qualities are present, everything else can be developed. They were those unflappable individuals that seemed to just have that “it&# factor.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

I seem to encounter a lot of people who want to attach a CTO label to me as I'm the only programmer on the founding team of three. I also recognize that while I am the first technologist on the team, I will not by any means be the last and I'm hoping that subsequent hires will be people I consider brighter and more talented than myself.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Low team morale Alan Clark, senior vice president of strategy at staffing agency Randstad USA, says a low-energy team that’s missing deadlines is a sign that an IT manager isn’t clearly communicating to their team or to management. This will allow the middle manager to start to regain momentum and reengage with their team.

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Tamnoon

MARCH 26, 2025

Why Multi-Cloud Security Matters The more moving parts in a system, the more likely it is to fail. Understanding and Overcoming Multi-Cloud Security Challenges Before we discuss benefits and best practices, let’s take a moment to review some of the specific security challenges you’ll need to overcome. Increased uptime.

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CircleCI

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

People were carrying around little black books which contained handwritten contact information for the people that they wanted to communicate with. The dissemination of information was limited to paper mediums such as periodicals and books. My software development experience went a little something like this: Write code in isolation.

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James Shore

MAY 31, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Your feedback is appreciated!

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James Shore

MARCH 17, 2022

This is an excerpt from The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition. The full text of this section is available below, courtesy of the Art of Agile Development book club ! Test-Driven Development. Teams who embrace test-driven development accumulate thousands of tests. Buy it now! Details here. Programmers.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

The net result of being a late stage trend follower is that you will likely experience little more than yet another in a long line of great adventures that ended in frustration due to the time wasted and the investment squandered. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity.

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James Shore

JUNE 11, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Team Dynamics.

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Honeycomb

MARCH 3, 2025

Ill first cover a short list of base assumptions, and then borrow from scholars of cognitive systems engineering and resilience engineering to list said criteria. I am not looking to be impressed, I am looking to make my life and the system better. Another mechanism I want you to keep in mind is something called the context gap.

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Altexsoft

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

web development, data analysis. machine learning , DevOps and system administration, automated-testing, software prototyping, and. Source: Python Developers Survey 2020 Results. Python uses dynamic typing, which means developers don’t have to declare a variable’s type. many others. How Python is used. Interpreted.

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O'Reilly Media - Data

JULY 24, 2018

Were those decisions made by a system that was trained on biased data? However, implementing a “golden rule” in the actual research and development process is challenging—just as it’s hard to get from short, pithy oaths and pledges to actual practice. Those products are badly needed. Why was their insurance claim denied?

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Altexsoft

JULY 30, 2020

Revenue leakage is the mismatch between the expected revenue from the bookings that were made and the amount that airlines eventually receive. This is not always possible due to numerous problems. Let’s see at what stages of the flight booking process leakages appear. Unticketed booking. Duplicate booking.

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Xebia

JUNE 29, 2021

But before that, a bit of theory (yeah, we know, can be boring, but we promise that it’s short)… Sociotechnical systems. We operate in sociotechnical systems, where the social practices, our cognitive processes, and technology are at play. Imagine if I skip the first two? Could feel awkward to the other party.

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