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Why your Agile team needs visual collaboration (and what to look for)

Agile Alliance

Learn what visual collaboration means, why it is essential for supporting Agile teams, and what qualities to seek out as you search for the right visual collaboration solution. The post Why your Agile team needs visual collaboration (and what to look for) first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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The Curse of Perfection – Toil and Trouble

Perficient

“Double, double toil and trouble,” is a line repeated by the witches in Macbeth as they lay out the ominous prophecies of greatness and dire consequences for the titular character. Macbeth’s ambition envisions a perfect ending though desperate actions and moral weakness ruin it. So too are the misguided actions in pursuit of perfection which can set expectations and pressure that lead to unwanted results.

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The Botched Update Heard Around the World Calls for More Diversification

Ooda Loop

While thankfully the incident was not the result of malicious intent, it does underscore a major problem an interconnected global community has when it relies on the same products for its tech solutions

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5 IT risks CIOs should be paranoid about

CIO

As a digital transformation leader and former CIO, I carry a healthy dose of paranoia. Call it survival instincts: Risks that can disrupt an organization from staying true to its mission and accomplishing its goals must constantly be surfaced, assessed, and either mitigated or managed. Is the organization transforming fast enough? Are stakeholders struggling or unhappy?

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

Speaker: Jay Allardyce

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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ConfusedFunction: A Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Impacting GCP Cloud Functions

Tenable

Organizations that have used Google Cloud Platform’s Cloud Functions – a serverless execution environment – could be impacted by a privilege escalation vulnerability discovered by Tenable and dubbed as “ConfusedFunction.” Read on to learn all about the vulnerability and what your organization needs to do to protect itself. Tenable Research has discovered a vulnerability in Google Cloud Platform involving its Cloud Functions serverless compute service and its Cloud Build CI/CD pipeline service.

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Gen AI is Coming for Remote Workers First

Harvard Business Review

Automation has historically impacted blue-collar jobs first, whereas white-collar jobs benefited. The wave of remote work brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic further empowered white-collar workers with more autonomy through remote work. However, generative AI is changing this narrative. Remote workers are now more susceptible to automation due to their tasks being digital and thus more easily automated, but also indicates large potential productivity benefits.

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Secure Code Warrior Unveils Agent to Manage Commit Permissions

DevOps.com

Secure Code Warrior (SCW) today added an agent to its portfolio of application security that assesses the security competency of developers as they commit code to a repository.

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Daggerfly: Espionage Group Makes Major Update to Toolset

Symantec

APT group appears to be using a shared framework to create Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android threats.

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Dell Data Lakehouse – Going Warp Speed

Dell EMC

Accelerate your data insights with Warp Speed—enhancing performance, cutting costs, and streamlining your analytics with Dell Data Lakehouse.

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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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CrowdStrike CEO apologizes for crashing IT systems around the world, details fix

CIO

CrowdStrike CEO has apologized to the company’s customers and partners for crashing their Windows systems, and the company has described the error that caused the disaster. “I want to sincerely apologize directly to all of you for today’s outage. All of CrowdStrike understands the gravity and impact of the situation,” CrowdStrike founder and CEO George Kurtz wrote in a blog post on the company’s website titled “Our Statement on Today’s Outage.

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Announcing a new strategic alliance with The Agile Network

Agile Alliance

Agile Alliance has partnered with The Agile Network, a new interactive streaming platform, which launched at Agile2024, offering members and the broader Agile community access to a comprehensive range of Agile content and resources. The post Announcing a new strategic alliance with The Agile Network first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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How to Find More Joy at Work and Disrupt the Monotony

Let's Grow Leaders

Find Joy in Contribution, Connection and Challenge Are you looking for more joy in your work? Has work gotten monotonous? Does today feel too much like yesterday? Important work is hard. And sometimes repetitive tasks are a vital part of the gig. But if your job feels monotonous and boring, find ways to mix it up and find more joy. 3 Ways to Break the Disrupt the Monotony and Find More Joy at Work Here are a few places to start to find more joy at work.

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How to Improve Women’s Advancement Programs

Harvard Business Review

Most corporate women’s advancement programs center on teaching women a predefined slate of skills purported to give them more control over their careers. But by taking this approach, companies may be unintentionally communicating a culture of conformity by asking women to change who they are to succeed. This leaves many women, especially senior women, feeling stuck, because strong leaders need to have the ability to set expectations, not just fulfill them.

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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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Early IT takeaways from the CrowdStrike outage

CIO

Whether you’ve survived the CrowdStrike incident or didn’t use CrowdStrike and are merely seeing the impact to others, taking time to learn lessons from this event is vital. After all, if you couldn’t recover easily from this, then you may be lost trying to recover from a ransomware attack. At issue are potential shifts you might want to consider making to your staffing strategies, technical processes, and communication channels and culture, as well as your approach to ensuring hardened assets o

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Your Partner in Innovation: Life Sciences Executive Search Firm

N2Growth Blog

The Value of Partnering with a Life Sciences Executive Search Firm With the life sciences industry continually evolving, finding and attracting top executive talent has become a critical challenge for organizations seeking to remain competitive. Partnering with a life sciences executive search firm can benefit companies in this sector. Executive search firms specializing in the life sciences field have a deep understanding of industry trends, market dynamics, and the specific skills and experien

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Survey Surfaces Mass Open Source Java Migration

DevOps.com

A global survey of 663 IT professionals with Java expertise finds 86% are migrating some portion of their applications to an open-source edition of the Java platform or have already migrated (25%).

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To Make Your Pitches More Engaging, Appeal to Multiple Learning Styles

Harvard Business Review

When idea pitches fail to resonate, it doesn’t always have to do with the merit of the idea, your presentation style, or charisma; the problem could stem from a deeper disengagement in your organization. To make pitches more appealing and increase the chances of ideas resonating, the author recommends engaging three main learning styles that may be in your audience: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic.

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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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20 IT management certifications for IT leaders

CIO

IT managers are often responsible for not just overseeing an organization’s IT infrastructure but its IT teams as well. To succeed, you need to understand the fundamentals of security, data storage, hardware, software, networking, and IT management frameworks — and how they all work together to deliver business value. Plus, you must be adept at managing teams, projects, and processes.

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Has The Collapse of the CCP PRC Begun?

Ooda Loop

A comprehensive look at the situation in China paints a picture of a nation in decline. What follows is a situational assessment designed to inform strategic planning for business and government leaders interested in comprehending what may come next.

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CrowdStrike CEO: 97% of Windows Systems Back Online After Crash

DevOps.com

More than 97% of the Windows desktops that were suddenly disrupted a week ago by a problematic software update from CrowdStrike are back online, according to the cybersecurity company’s top executive, but the pain from the worldwide outage will continue to be felt.

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Using Persuasion to Spur Lasting Organizational Change

Harvard Business Review

There are well-known tactics for persuading others, coauthor Robert Cialdini’s prominent among them. But when leaders need to prompt long-term behavioral change, these tactics need to be applied differently. Cialdini and his coauthor, a researcher of influence tactics, suggest three methods for delivering long-haul persuasion in a complex system that build on Cialdini’s earlier work: Offer compromises proactively, promote unity, and appoint a system steward.

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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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4 cities proving the transformative value of data and IT

CIO

Smart cities are springing up around the country. These technologically modern municipalities use a variety of systems, devices, and sensors to enhance services and operations, manage assets, and increase efficiency — fueled by the power of data. Such data, collected from a range of sources before being processed and analyzed, helps city IT organizations monitor and manage infrastructure such as traffic and transportation systems, utilities, water supply networks, waste removal, hospitals, schoo

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GenAI Use Cases That Transform Smartphone User Experiences

IDC

As GenAI becomes more mainstream, many market participants have announced their own set of AI tools to enhance new smartphones.

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Survey Surfaces Wide Generative AI Adoption Among Software Engineers

DevOps.com

A survey of 509 software engineers finds nearly three-quarters (72%) are leveraging generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities somewhere in a software development process, with nearly half (48%) reporting they use these tools every day.

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When Asking Too Many Questions Undermines Your Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Although it’s widely accepted that good leaders are good learners, a learning mentality can also have a darker side. If not carefully managed, it might lead to a perception of decreased effectiveness, less expertise, and lower efficiency. Your learning mentality should be the catalyst for your personal growth and development — not a reason for others to question your leadership.

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The AI Superhero Approach to Product Management

Speaker: Conrado Morlan

In this engaging and witty talk, industry expert Conrado Morlan will explore how artificial intelligence can transform the daily tasks of product managers into streamlined, efficient processes. Using the lens of a superhero narrative, he’ll uncover how AI can be the ultimate sidekick, aiding in data management and reporting, enhancing productivity, and boosting innovation.

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SAP Q2 results reveal large orgs now firmly on the path to AI

CIO

There are not many organizations that can take a hit on net profit due to monstrous restructuring costs, yet at the same time raise their operating profit projections for 2025, but SAP is one of them, according to its latest quarterly results released this week. The move to an all-in AI strategy appears to be paying off, with SAP CEO Christian Klein telling financial analysts on a recent earnings call that “AI had a direct impact on our bookings.

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H2 Forecast: Who’s Next To IPO?

Crunchbase News

Last year right around this time there were rumblings of the slumbering IPO market finally reawakening. It kinda did with a few big names like Arm Holdings and Instacart testing the waters, but more hope was held out for the first half of this year. However, the IPO window so far in 2024, while slightly ajar, certainly has not seen the barrage of long-private, venture-backed companies go public many expected.

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The Risks of the Cloud Oligopoly

DevOps.com

The cloud oligopoly, insofar as it stifles competition, represents a potentially overlooked area in which businesses must assess their supply chain commitments.

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