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Communicating With Executives When Your World’s on Fire

Let's Grow Leaders

When your world’s on fire, and you’re working around the clock to survive, it feels like the last thing you have time for is formal updates. And of course, the bigger the fire, the more the senior team needs to know what’s […]. The post Communicating With Executives When Your World’s on Fire appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Cult of the Complex

A List Apart

’Tis a gift to be simple. Increasingly, in our line of work, ’tis a rare gift indeed. In an industry that extols innovation over customer satisfaction, and prefers algorithm to human judgement (forgetting that every algorithm has human bias in its DNA), perhaps it should not surprise us that toolchains have replaced know-how. Likewise, in a field where young straight white dudes take an overwhelming majority of the jobs (including most of the management jobs) it’s perhaps to be expected that web

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Introduction to Python Microservices with Nameko

Toptal

The microservices architectural pattern is an architectural style that is growing in popularity, given its flexibility and resilience. In this article, Toptal Freelance Python Developer Guilherme Caminha will focus on building a proof of concept microservices application in Python using Nameko, a microservices framework.

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Personas in SCRUM

SCRUMstudy

Personas are highly detailed fictional characters, representative of the majority of users and of other stakeholders who may not directly use the end product. Personas are created to identify the needs of the target user base. Creating specific Personas can help the team better understand users and their requirements and goals. Based on a Persona, the Product Owner can more effectively prioritize features to create the Prioritized Product Backlog.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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Kubernetes-native continuous delivery pipelines with Brigade

Xebia

In my quest for the ultimate tool for continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines on a Kubernetes cluster, I’ve previously looked at well-known options such as Gitlab and Jenkins. These tools may have integrations with Kubernetes, but are usually anything but lightweight. If you just want to get your code from point A (git) to […].

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How to Understand and Appraise Private Real Estate Fund Investing

Toptal

The extent of investing in real estate for most individuals is in the bricks and mortar of their own house. For braver investors, there are a range of other options, the most notable being private real estate offerings. Similar to PE and VC funds, these structures can allow for tailored investments in skilled management teams undertaking complex projects.

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5 Surefire Ways to Promote Your Business on Facebook

Women on Business

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My 10 All-Time Favorite Leadership Posts (chosen by you)

Terry Starbucker

Hard to believe that this blog has been around for nearly 13 years – it’s been a wonderful and winding journey putting my thoughts on these pages about a subject that is near and dear to my heart. Leadership. The more human kind. I’ve covered a lot of ground (and probed the depths of my head and heart) in my 1,066 posts since December 25, 2005, and what I have gained from it is incalculable.

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PowerShell: In-Memory Injection Using CertUtil.exe

Coalfire

Have you ever heard the old saying,” The only constant in life is change?” Nothing is truer in the world of penetration testing and information security than the certainty of change. New defenses are always emerging, and the guys and gals in the red team game are always having to evolve our efforts to evade defenses. This week was one of those weeks for me.

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Revolutionize QA: GAPs AI-Driven Accelerators for Smarter, Faster Testing

GAP's AI-Driven QA Accelerators revolutionize software testing by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing test coverage. From generating test cases and Cypress code to AI-powered code reviews and detailed defect reports, our platform streamlines QA processes, saving time and resources. Accelerate API testing with Pytest-based cases and boost accuracy while reducing human error.

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UX and the Importance of Web Accessibility

Toptal

The internet is a primary source of information, entertainment, and communication. Yet, for people with disabilities, there are barriers that make it inaccessible, as many websites don’t consider their needs.

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How to Use Instagram Stories to Boost Engagement

Women on Business

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5 Vital Behaviors That Will Impress Your HR Team

Let's Grow Leaders

What does your HR team say about you? Does it matter? As we engage in our long-term leadership development programs, we inevitably spend time talking to the HR team about who’s in the program, why, and how we can best help. For […]. The post 5 Vital Behaviors That Will Impress Your HR Team appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How to create a music app like Spotify?

VironIT

Music streaming is a hot business niche. Music streaming apps seem simple and available to anyone until you begin to consider how to make a Spotify app clone for your own business needs. What about development? Should you copy an existing model or create your own? In this post, we’ll outline Spotify’s features and tech […].

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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Become a World Class Designer by Making the Globe Your Office

Toptal

Travel gives a fresh perspective, inspires creativity, and improves our empathy for people around the world. By making the globe your office, you can benefit from new insights and become a better designer.

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How to Bridge the Maternity Gap in Your Resume

Women on Business

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OpenRates Currency API (Sponsored)

David Walsh

Creating your own APIs can be a total nightmare: worrying about uptime, load balancing, data accuracy, caching, and all of the other risks would keep me up at night. And if your API relates to money in any way? If you get that wrong you could be costing yourself, your employer, or your client a ton of money. I’ve been playing around with OpenRates lately and it’s been really simple to use.

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Thinking in flow - some recent thoughts

Marcusoft

I talk a lot about flow these days and I’m continuously fascinated how many good things follow by shifting our focus to supporting a better, faster and smoother flow. In this post, I just wanted to share a few thoughts that have been on my mind lately. Flow of what? This picture above is my favourite picture on the net. I have done a 2-hour lecture on lean with this as the only slide.

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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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A Vital Guide to Qmake

Toptal

Qmake is a build system tool shipped with Qt library that simplifies the build process across different platforms. In this guide, Freelance Qt Developer Andrei Smirnov describes the most useful qmake features and provides real-world examples for each of them.

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5 Reasons You Need a Business Action Plan

Women on Business

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Agile Amped Greatest Hits – May 2018 Events

Accenture

Let us count the ways that we love May: one great Agile community, two inspiring regional events, and more than a dozen new Agile Amped podcasts! We are humbled by and proud of the impactful change that this community is making in big and small ways. A huge thank you to the event coordinators that made Mile High Agile and Keep Austin Agile such great successes, bringing together hundreds of agilists – coaches, consultants, enthusiasts, learners – to co-create and share experiences an

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Leadership: Humility and Focusing on Others

QAspire

I often meet business leaders who are so full of themselves. When interacting with others, they try to keep the needle of focus constantly towards themselves, their business, accomplishments and stories. It is easy to get caught up in the self because after all, you are a up there and you make things happen (or so you think!). In one of the leadership workshop I attended in early years of my career, the trainer beautifully described humility as. “ Humility is like the banks of a river that gives

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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It took nine years for US authorities to find North Korean malware, Facebook to open up its data to fight election manipulation, ICO frauds, Hacker jailed for using stolen credentials from Yahoo data breach

CTOvision

The US says North Korea behind malware attacks North Korea has been spying on US public infrastructure, aerospace, financial and media companies for nine years using a malware. This was revealed by FBI and DHS who said that North Korea used two pieces of malware to target the key US cyber assets. While this news is important [.].

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Ideas for Businesses You Can Launch for $100

Women on Business

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How to Delete Untracked Files in a Mercurial Repository

David Walsh

Working around Firefox at Mozilla means that you need to get acquainted with mercurial, the version control system that rivals git and svn. Like any tool, hg (mercurial) can be difficult until you’re well versed with it. And if you hg import a URL that doesn’t match up with what’s in the repo, you’ll get a bunch of *.rej files that in your directory structure that show up every time you hg status.

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Ditch that Ghastly Spreadsheet and Turn to Smarter Analytics

The Kini Group

I’m going to go out on a limb here and bet that at some point this week, if not today, you’ve opened up Excel to run some sort of data analysis. It’s one of the most common tools among data professionals, and it’s easy to understand why. Since its invention in 1979 , the spreadsheet has become the backbone of data analysis. It’s simple, easy to use, and simplifies shared reporting between departments.

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

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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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DHS Proposal To Remove The International Entrepreneur Rule: Is This Poorly Thought Out Or Poorly Explained Or Both?

CTOvision

On 25 May 2018 DHS US Citizenship and Immigration Services posted a notice titled DHS Proposal To Remove The International Entrepreneur Rule. The notice says DHS proposes to end a program that allows certain foreign entrepreneurs to come to the US to develop and build start-up businesses here (the full rule is at: International Entrepreneur Rule). The [.].

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How to Restore a Healthy Work-Life Balance and Relieve Stress

Women on Business

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How Is Your Company’s Onboarding Experience for New Hires?

CO2 Business Leadership

By: Thomas Schlick Every hiring manager I’ve known is always out to hire “top talent” – people who are rock stars in their field. These new hires come with sterling resumes and are part of a carefully orchestrated recruiting effort. Having typically been flown in from out of state, these high-performance individuals go through a wonderful interviewing process, which often includes lunch with the CEO or another senior executive.