InfoQ Culture Methods
AUGUST 12, 2019
Empathy, like software, is a deeply technical topic that can challenge you in the best way while making your life richer and more rewarding. This article explores how an empathy-focused approach to software development can help pay down technical debt, increase automated test coverage, build trust among team members, and contribute to the overall health of a software system.
Gitprime
AUGUST 15, 2019
As engineering managers and leaders, our job of course is to help our teams deliver value to the organization and its customers. That’s our sprint-by-sprint purpose in a nutshell. Yet from a higher level, our role is to ensure that both engineers and teams continue to grow and develop. With an eye on the long-term health of our teams, our engineers, and our companies, that latter responsibility is at least as critical as the products we deliver.
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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User
AUGUST 13, 2019
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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 12, 2019
Limited perspective traps leaders and drives apart teams Recently, I’ve watched an organization of passionate and caring people disintegrate. The limited perspective of leaders and team members has frustrated communication and problem solving. They’ve devolved into camps of us vs them. It […]. The post Don’t Let Limited Perspective Destroy Your Team appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
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Next Level Blog
AUGUST 14, 2019
As I’ve written here before , effective leadership communications involves two distinct activities – transmitting and receiving. You can think of it like a two-way radio or a smartphone. They only work when they both transmit and receive. For your leadership communications to be inspirational and influential, you need to do both as well. Too many people in leadership roles overemphasize the transmission and underemphasize the reception.
DevOps.com
AUGUST 13, 2019
When it comes to near-term survival, organizations know they are fighting for their digital existence. Still, despite 80% of organizations moving forward with their digital transformation efforts, very few have experienced the heights of success they hoped. In Digital Transformation: Coming from Behind, we reported consultancy McKinsey & Company found less than one-third of digital […].
OverOps
AUGUST 12, 2019
All the data in the world means nothing if it’s not the right data. But when it comes to delivering reliable software and troubleshooting issues, what is the right data? To answer this question, we recently created a framework that helps organizations pinpoint critical gaps in data and metrics that are holding them back on their reliability journeys.
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 15, 2019
Nothing beats a great mastermind group to challenge your thinking, spark new ideas, and help you grow. Most of the time, we think of these mastermind groups as people from different organizations with similar levels of ambition and experience who meet to […]. The post How to Hold a Team Mastermind Problem Solving Meeting appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin
As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.
N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 11, 2019
Most high-performing leaders concern themselves with that which other people value most and if they do it well those leaders usually climb the corporate ladder fast. We have produced an order which is designed to reward these natural hierarchies and sometimes leaders become disillusioned in the process, they hit the summit of success, and that’s where teams and organizations can start to suffer.
DevOps.com
AUGUST 16, 2019
IT is in a state of change on a consistent basis, but never more so than now. With the increasing importance of the digital customer experience across all industries, technology is at a new inflection point in how it can fundamentally impact executive priorities. And while nobody can speak for the direction of IT as […]. The post Three Insights from the World’s Leading IT Organizations appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechBeacon
AUGUST 12, 2019
A recent Gartner report claims that 28% of spending in key IT segments will shift to the cloud by 2022. While that growth signals an increased desire for the flexibility of the cloud, the fact is the remainder of the IT budget, representing the bulk of organizations' workloads, still resides in the secure confines of the corporate data center.
CEO Insider
AUGUST 14, 2019
As the home of Silicon Valley and global success stories from Google to Apple, the United States tops the global ranking of the best countries to be an entrepreneur. With a highly-skilled workforce, competitiveness and openness for business, as well as having easy access to capital for entrepreneurs, the U.S. rates highly across the board. […].
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N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 11, 2019
Most high-performing leaders concern themselves with that which other people value most and if they do it well those leaders usually climb the corporate ladder fastest. We have created an order, particularly in western societies, which is designed to reward the natural business hierarchies we see across our corporate landscape. Sometimes leaders become disillusioned in the process of climbing the corporate, and when they hit the summit this is where teams and organisations can start to suffer.
DevOps.com
AUGUST 15, 2019
The rise of DevOps has broken down silos and brought database administrators (DBAs) and application developers closer together to deliver software faster and in a more agile manner. This near-constant change driven by DevOps is reflected in the results of the Redgate 2019 State of SQL Server Monitoring Report. It reveals that 73% of organizations […].
TechBeacon
AUGUST 14, 2019
Adding security controls into a DevOps pipeline is a challenge on a good day. Often, the security organization might request to add functionality such as static analysis and security testing (SAST) scanners, open-source software scanners, and other tool sets—possibly with little or no understanding of the delivery process.
Toptal
AUGUST 13, 2019
Integration tests provide a lot of value considering the time and effort required for testing. React integration tests improve code maintainability, yet they don’t slow down development. In this article, Toptal Software Developer Anton Rublev demonstrates how you can harness the power of react-testing-library to create superior code without wasting time.
Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.
Change Starts Here
AUGUST 13, 2019
In this episode, Erika Mookerjie, founder of Change Leadership Advisors, shares her experience developing Change Agent Networks – groups of advocates within organizations who carry the torch of change.
Kaseya
AUGUST 14, 2019
Time is running out for support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008/R2. End of life for these operating systems is January 14, 2020. Has your organization begun preparing for the Windows 7 end of life? If not, it is crucial to start planning now for how your organization will handle the devices running this operating system (OS). In 2017, the infamous WannaCry ransomware attack infected 200,000 computers globally, causing a total of $4 billion in damages.
TechBeacon
AUGUST 16, 2019
Writing high-quality success metrics, key performance indicators, benefit hypotheses, résumés, self-assessment paperwork, and the like can be difficult. To make things easier, I created a technique I call IDEEM, after the five steps involved in the model: increase, decrease, enable, eliminate, and maintain. My technique was inspired by an approach I learned from Mahan Khalsa and Randy Illig's book, Let's Get Real or Let's Not Play.
CircleCI
AUGUST 15, 2019
CircleCI is committed to helping developers automate their workflows leading to time savings, increased predictability, and relevant insights into their software development life cycle (SDLC). However, automation can be subject to bottlenecks. If there is a critical security step in your workflow that is not automated , one of two things could happen.
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CTOvision
AUGUST 10, 2019
OODA Loop provides actionable intelligence, analysis, and insight on global security, technology, and business issues. Our free newsletter keeps our readers up to date on a daily basis, and our special reports and advisories provide insights for those that need deeper insights into key markets and topics of executive interest. OODALoop offers additional insights and […].
CEO Insider
AUGUST 16, 2019
Perhaps unsurprisingly, orchestras are a more popular metaphor for business than improvizational jazz bands. They both involve teams of talented specialists with clearly defined roles and responsibilities. They both rely on coaching and feedback in order to improve. They both aim to execute a clearly established vision as accurately and elegantly as humanly possible.
TechBeacon
AUGUST 14, 2019
Software may be taking over the world, but web APIs are taking over software. Behind nearly every SaaS product and web application is a web API. These APIs control everything from your banking transactions to which videos you like.
scruminc
AUGUST 16, 2019
2019 Scrummer Reading List. It’s that time of year again - and our annual reading list is back with a twist. For 2019 we’re expanding the suggestions from the Scrum Inc. Team to include podcasts and even some TV shows. We’re hoping to add your suggestions to the list. What book/podcast or TV show do you binge on at the beach (or by the fire for our friends in the Southern Hemisphere)?
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Actian
AUGUST 15, 2019
For software companies developing new solutions in the cloud, the overall mission can be a daunting proposition. Cloud is an ever-evolving landscape, where one piece of technology may be popular one day, only to be replaced for something better a little while later. Then, there is a slew of tech jargon along with an endless list of acronyms which one must learn and constantly keep up in order to remain technologically adept and to have a chance, at a minimum, at contributing to a discussion with
CEO Insider
AUGUST 10, 2019
In my work as The Retirement Coach, I make it clear to our members: our goal is not to get you to stop working. Our goal is to get you situated so you never have to work—or do anything you don’t want to—ever again. A truly relaxing retirement is one in which you do whatever […].
Career Advancement
AUGUST 12, 2019
“Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.” —Vince Lombardi. Renae Asks: I’m trying to use my time wisely, and that means being strategic in the leadership training opportunities I pursue, as well as the ones I set up for the team I manage.
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