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Adapting in the wild: Agile’s unexpected impact on conservation

Agile Alliance

Discover how Agile principles transformed wildlife conservation efforts in the Maasai Mara to protect both ecosystems and communities. The post Adapting in the wild: Agile’s unexpected impact on conservation first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Six steps to creating a successful IT strategy: A guide for CIOs

CIO

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, the role of the CIO has transcended simply managing IT infrastructure to becoming a pivotal player in enabling business strategy. The IDC IT Strategy Framework provides a structured approach for CIOs to align IT initiatives with business goals, ensuring that technology investments drive organizational success.

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How to Deal with Team Conflict and Get Everyone Back to Work

Let's Grow Leaders

Handling team conflict well distinguishes outstanding leaders You’ve got a clear focus on what matters most. Your team seems to work well together, but then you get that call: “I need to talk to you about …” or a team member suddenly explodes at their teammates and storms off the floor. It’s conflict, a disagreement, or a clash of personalities. Handle it well and you’ll build trust and influence.

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New Rails maintenance policy and end of maintenance announcements

Ruby on Rails

We’re excited to announce updates to our maintenance policy for Ruby on Rails. These changes are designed to provide clarity on our support timelines and help you plan your Rails upgrades effectively. You can find the full details of our new policy in our site. New Maintenance Policy Overview Our support is now divided into three categories: New Features We aim to release a version containing new features every six months.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

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?

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Unleash your career potential with Agile Alliance

Agile Alliance

Leverage Agile Alliance resources to enhance your current role and unlock new job prospects. The post Unleash your career potential with Agile Alliance first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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These 10 Charts Show Startup Funding Downturn Continues Despite AI’s Ascent

Crunchbase News

Despite a strong pull from the AI sector, venture investment in the third quarter of 2024 wasn’t able to overcome its now more than two-year-long slump. That’s the broad takeaway from our third-quarter venture funding numbers. In every major startup region in the world — North America , Europe and Asia — startup investment fell in Q3, Crunchbase data shows.

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Radically Simplifying Cybersecurity

Palo Alto Networks

Leveraging advanced technology in today's cyberthreat landscape is no longer optional — it's imperative. At Palo Alto Networks, we've pioneered the integration of AI-driven solutions specifically designed to empower security teams and enhance operational efficiencies. Our latest innovation, the AI Copilots , stands at the forefront of this revolution.

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BMC Adds AI Assistant to Help Modernize Mainframe Applications

DevOps.com

BMC Software this week at its Connect 2024 conference unveiled a generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that makes it simpler to invoke a range of AI capabilities in mainframe environments.

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AI makes edge computing more relevant to CIOs

CIO

Analysts predict the incoming phase of enterprise AI will herald agentic systems that require minimal human intervention, with 75% of CIOs increasing their AI budgets during this year alone, according to a recent report from Gartner. As gen AI becomes embedded into more devices, endowing it with autonomous decision-making will depend on real-time data and avoiding excessive cloud costs.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data 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.

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Oracle October 2024 Critical Patch Update Addresses 198 CVEs

Tenable

Oracle addresses 198 CVEs in its fourth quarterly update of 2024 with 334 patches, including 35 critical updates. Background On October 15, Oracle released its Critical Patch Update (CPU) for October 2024 , the fourth and final quarterly update of the year. This CPU contains fixes for 198 CVEs in 334 security updates across 28 Oracle product families.

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How to Use AI to Build Your Company’s Collective Intelligence

Harvard Business Review

When done right, AI can not only improve short-term productivity of organizations but can also increase their long-term performance by expanding the space of opportunities the organization considers by supporting learning, increasing intellectual diversity, and enhancing organizational culture. That is, it can increase the organization’s collective intelligence.

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BMC CEO: Time for IT Teams to Shift Gears is Now

DevOps.com

BMC CEO Aman Sayed is predicting that as the global economy after several years continues to stabilize, there are now enough signs to suggest the company year will see a wave of growth that will require IT teams to start shifting gears now if they hope to be prepared to meet new challenges.

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The gap between AI investment and AI adoption

CIO

AI continues to shape cloud strategies, but AI implementation is going slower than most predicted. This is frustrating for technology providers who have made big bets on AI. What’s going on? A recent survey conducted by Censuswide on behalf of Red Hat polled 609 IT managers across the United Kingdom and other major markets. More than 80% of IT managers reported an urgent AI skills shortage, mainly in areas such as generative AI , large language models (LLMs), and data science.

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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China Uses “Alleged” Leaked Intel Docs to Flip Narrative of VOLT TYPHOON

Ooda Loop

No longer content with relying on its denials to combat the accusations, Beijing has leveraged its extensive media apparatus to take its case to the international audience to combat the negative press.

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Why Marketers Are Spending Less on Social Media

Harvard Business Review

A bi-annual poll of U.S. marketing leaders found that social media investments have declined to their lowest level in seven years. An analysis of poll data suggests that lack of strategy fit, weak returns, and new competition from retail media may help explain this dip. Researchers leverage their findings to offer suggestions to marketers on how to overcome past strategy misalignment in order to continue to benefit from social media’s immediacy and pervasiveness, including through the use of Gen

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Open Mainframe Project Extends Software Engineering Reach

DevOps.com

The Open Mainframe Project has updated its open source Zowe project to add support for IntelliJ, an integrated development environment (IDE) widely used to build Java applications, while at the same time making software development kits (SDKs) for Java and Kotlin programming languages generally available.

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AI-native software engineering may be closer than developers think

CIO

Developers unimpressed by the early returns of generative AI for coding take note: Software development is headed toward a new era, when most code will be written by AI agents and reviewed by experienced developers, Gartner predicts. Organizations and vendors are already rolling out AI coding agents that enable developers to fully automate or offload many tasks, with more pilot programs and proofs-of-concept likely to be launched in 2025, says Philip Walsh, senior principal analyst in Gartner’s

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

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.

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Meta and Arista Build AI at Scale

Arista

We are excited to share that Meta has deployed the Arista 7700R4 Distributed Etherlink Switch (DES) for its latest Ethernet-based AI cluster. It's useful to reflect on how we arrived at this point and the strength of the partnership with Meta.

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Why Workplace Well-Being Programs Don’t Achieve Better Outcomes

Harvard Business Review

By 2026, global corporate spending on wellness programs is set to top $94.6 billion, yet anticipated improvements in well-being are not being realized, and, in fact, mental health needs are continuing to rise around the world. Drawing on a large body of recent research, the authors argue that well-being programs are failing, in part, because they focus on individual solutions rather than the broader systems that affect workers.

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CodeSOD: An Overloaded Developer

The Daily WTF

"Oh, I see what you mean, I'll just write an overloaded function which takes the different set of parameters," said the senior dev. That got SB 's attention. You see, they were writing JavaScript, which doesn't have function overloading. "Um," SB said, "you're going to do what ?" "Function overloading," the senior dev said. "It's when you write multiple versions of the same method with different signatures-" "I know what it is,"

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6 enterprise DevOps mistakes to avoid

CIO

It may surprise you, but DevOps has been around for nearly two decades. Driven by the development community’s desire for more capabilities and controls when deploying applications, DevOps gained momentum in 2011 in the enterprise with a positive outlook from Gartner and in 2015 when the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) incorporated DevOps. Unprecedented growth in AWS during this period also compelled CIOs to learn more about how startups were innovating and operating efficiently on the cloud.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps.com

DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted, as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers.

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Is Your Career Heading in the Right Direction?

Harvard Business Review

In our busy lives, it’s hard to find enough time to pause and reflect. But if we never make the time, we may just end up running fast in the wrong direction — and this is especially true when it comes to our careers. That’s why, once a quarter, it’s useful to run through this three-step exercise, or do a “career detox.” The first step involves turning inward and asking yourself a series of reflective questions focused on whether you’re still happy with your current path.

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Assumptions & Uncertainty : Project Estimating (Part 3)

Perficient

This post is the third in a series of four about estimating project hours. Part 1: Sandbagging & Lowballing Part 2: Dependencies & Creep Part 3: Assumptions & Uncertainty Coming Soon: Part 4: The Emotional Conclusion In this third installment of my blog series on project estimates, let’s dive headfirst into the murky waters of assumptions and uncertainty!

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Choosing the best AI models for your business

CIO

From digital assistants to code generation, many small to medium businesses (SMBs) harbor lofty ambitions for generative AI (GenAI). The next step, however, is just as significant: whether to build their AI initiatives from scratch or simply secure a quick win with an existing AI tool. For a resource-strapped business, this decision comes with a host of considerations, including AI readiness, existing infrastructure, and the amount of value derived, versus the effort required to realize their AI

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.

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AI Empowerment in Life Sciences

DevOps.com

Life Sciences companies aspire to harness AI models to expedite the development of treatments and therapies. However, fragmented data platforms often lack a strategic plan, leading to challenges like technical debt and difficulty identifying and reusing relevant data.

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North Korea blows up parts of inter-Korean roads as tensions with South Korea soar

Ooda Loop

North Korea has destroyed the inter-Korean roads as tensions escalate. South Korea has said that North Korea has destroyed the northern points of the Inter-Korean roads. This comes as tensions between the two countries have been increasing.

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These Are The AI Startups That Raised Over $1B

Crunchbase News

There was a time when raising over a billion dollars as an AI startup was enough to warrant a little name recognition. Not anymore. Today, the list of heavily funded artificial intelligence companies is lengthy enough that it’s hard to keep track of them all. Per Crunchbase data , there were at least 23 private, AI-focused startups* funded in the past couple years that have raised over $1 billion in equity financing to date.