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Moving Forward by Working Backwards

Agile Alliance

Traditionally, we see “building the right product” and “building the product right” as two separate outcomes. In Agile delivery, these are two sides of one coin. The post Moving Forward by Working Backwards first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Do Data Companies Need Chief Ethics Officers?

Cloudera

Sometimes it takes a billion-dollar mistake to bring the murkier side of data ethics into sharp focus. Equifax found this out to their own cost in 2017 when they failed to protect the data of almost 150 million users globally. The catastrophic breach was bad enough on its own — but Equifax waited three months to go public with the news. As the public furore rose to a crescendo, the credit organization dragged its feet on disclosing exactly what kind of information had been leaked.

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What is a chief data officer? A leader who creates business value from data

CIO

The chief data officer (CDO) is a senior executive responsible for the utilization and governance of data across the organization. While the chief data officer title is often shortened to CDO, the role should not be confused with that of the chief digital officer , which is also frequently referred to as CDO. “The chief data officer is the senior person, with a business focus, who understands the strategy and direction of the business, but their focus is on how to underpin that with data,” says

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Are we about to see a unicorn selloff?

TechCrunch

Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. . Welcome to the weekend! We have a lot of ground to cover today, so pour some coffee, settle in, and roll with me. The great selloff? Remember when Amplitude direct listed , started to trade, and then ran into a wall when it reported Q4 2021 earnings?

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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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Agile2022: A New Hope

Agile Alliance

We’ve made some big changes to the program for Agile2022. Our conference chair Kevin Stevens breaks it all down and shares why this year’s conference will be different than in years past. The post Agile2022: A New Hope first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Serverless360 – Ultimate Solution for All Custom Logging and Tracking Needs

The Crazy Programmer

Distributed tracing is a method used to trace messages flowing through your business applications built using various Azure services, where they are well-suited for tracking and identifying any unexpected performance failures. For instance, consider an employee onboarding application that involves multiple Azure services and on-premises components. Then, it might be challenging to trace and get complete visibility of data transferred between those services.

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3 things you can do right now to support Ukraine’s IT sector

TechCrunch

Emmy Gengler. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Emmy Gengler is the CEO of Softjourn , a global technology services provider with offices in California, Ukraine and Poland. “The calls and texts started early, asking for power supplies and tools for fixing engines,” said Katia Ryzha, who lives and works in Ivano-Frankivsk, a small city in Western Ukraine.

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Peaks or Valleys? Three Factors to finding Agile Scaling Success

Agile Alliance

Have you ever thought to yourself. • How can we make Agile Scaling less of a goal itself and more of a method to get our organizational goals? • We know we need to scale but where do we go from here? If you have, come to this session to get the answers you've been … Continued. The post Peaks or Valleys? Three Factors to finding Agile Scaling Success first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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SRE Vs. Platform Engineering: What’s the Difference?

DevOps.com

Site reliability engineering (SRE) teams and platform engineering teams share similar goals—like maximizing automation and reducing toil—and similar methodologies. But they have different priorities, and use somewhat different tools to achieve them. What are SREs? What are platform engineers? How is each role similar and different? This article will answer all your questions.

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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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Game Development Workflow – Getting the Most Out of It

The Crazy Programmer

Today, game development is one of the biggest industries in the world with thousands of developers creating games in every niche. By 2025, the game development market size is expected to reach over USD 250 billion. Game development is complex and involves many complicated components in its development workflow due to which game developers struggle to build high-quality gaming experiences.

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Skiff lands $10.5M to build out its end-to-end encrypted workspaces

TechCrunch

Six months after launching its end-to-end encrypted document editor , Skiff has bagged another $10.5 million in fresh funding to build out private and collaborative workspaces for its burgeoning customer base. We wrote about Skiff last year ahead of its launch: Skiff is a web app that has much of the same document-writing and sharing capabilities as Google Docs but is built on a foundation of end-to-end encryption , so Skiff does not have access to users’ documents like Google does.

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Security Chaos Engineering – Turning the Tide in the War on Uncertainty in Cyber Security

Agile Alliance

Hope isn’t a strategy. Likewise, perfection isn’t a plan. The systems we are responsible for are failing as a normal function of how they operate, whether we like it or not, whether we see it or not. The post Security Chaos Engineering – Turning the Tide in the War on Uncertainty in Cyber Security first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Threat Alert: First Python Ransomware Attack Targeting Jupyter Notebooks

Aqua Security

Team Nautilus has uncovered a Python-based ransomware attack that, for the first time, was targeting Jupyter Notebook, a popular tool used by data practitioners. The attackers gained initial access via misconfigured environments, then ran a ransomware script that encrypts every file on a given path on the server and deletes itself after execution to conceal the attack.

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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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The Importance of Having Proper DMARC Records

The Crazy Programmer

The email validation system, known as DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance), is meant to safeguard your company’s email domain from being exploited for phishing, email spoofing , and other cybercrimes. For email authentication, DMARC records use SPF and DKIM. With DMARC, you can do reporting, which is a critical feature.

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Freelancer marketplace Malt acquires consulting marketplace Comatch

TechCrunch

It’s consolidation time in the freelancer marketplace industry. French startup Malt is acquiring Comatch , a competing marketplace focused on consultants and industry experts. Comatch originally started in Germany, which means that Malt is also doubling down on the German market with this acquisition. Terms of the deal are undisclosed but it involves a mix of equity and cash.

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No Estimates at Scale in the US Federal Government

Agile Alliance

When conversations about improving our backlog refinement ceremony started, we had no intention of getting rid of points. We did not set out prove or disprove the #NoEstimates debates waged on social media. “We" were the three teams of E-Verify Modernization (EVE-MOD) product group. E-Verify is web-based system offered by US Citizenship and Immigration Services … Continued.

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Essential Ingredients For a Remote DevOps Team

DevOps.com

Enterprise business processes are run on evolving applications, and the DevOps team needs to be as efficient as the applications they create. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on DevOps productivity—and that impact hasn’t always been positive. Tracking the performance of the DevOps team has become more challenging in a remote and […].

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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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The CEO Tech Agenda in a Digital-First World

IDC

IDC is seeing deliberate action being taken by CEOs to create a vision and strategy for the digital business era and to create new value. Insights from IDC's 2022 Worldwide CEO Survey, a flagship study of 389 top executives from around the globe, will help tech vendors understand the priorities, investments and key success factors of CEOs in 2022.

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Visa launches NFT program as it considers the digital art a new form of e-commerce

TechCrunch

Credit card giant Visa has launched an NFT creator program in an effort to bring small businesses into the digital economy. “We’ve seen rapid growth in the NFT ecosystem over the past year,” Cuy Sheffield , head of crypto at Visa, told TechCrunch. “We think NFTs represent a new form of e-commerce.”. The idea of a small business is evolving from the traditional “brick-and-mortar mom-and-pop shops” to include other independent businesses with creators and entrepreneurs who want to build digital-fo

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Legacy Systems and CI/CD: A simple How-To

Agile Alliance

When people hear “VAX assembly,” they immediately assume an application deployed once every year or two and developed using waterfall and a collection of antiquated technology practices. In this case, those are some very incorrect assumptions. Ticketmaster’s core ticketing engine is an almost 45-year-old platform primarily written in VAX assembly yet developed and deployed in … Continued.

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Ultimate Guide to Citus Con: An Event for Postgres

The Citus Data

One of the good things with a virtual event like Citus Con is that you have a lot of flexibility about where and when to watch the talks. From your home office, or a café, or the beach—or even the car, while you wait to pick up your kids. As long as you have an internet connection, you’re in. But you still need to figure out which talks and livestreams you want to watch when the event goes live on Tuesday, April 12.

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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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GitLab Updates CI/CD Platform to Improve Dev Productivity

DevOps.com

GitLab has made available a 14.9 update to its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that adds epic-linking, integrated security training, rule mode for scanning result policies and a revamped design, among other capabilities. The updated environment makes it easier to discover the state of the application development projects, GitLab said.

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As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuation

TechCrunch

It wasn’t that long ago that Docker looked like it was on the ropes. In 2019, it sold its enterprise business and decided to focus strictly on a developer audience with a set of commercial and open source tools. It was a pretty big bet for a six-year-old company to sell off the part of itself that was most lucrative at the time and completely shift its focus.

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Scrum for Digital Marketing – Control the Chaos and Deliver Value

Agile Alliance

Radical disruption and social media go hand in hand, yet with things moving so quickly, there is a constant need to inspect, learn and change. The post Scrum for Digital Marketing – Control the Chaos and Deliver Value first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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3 Powerful Ideas for AI-Driven Decision-Making Leveraging Your Customer Service Data

CEO Insider

Most business decisions are made using an organization’s structured data, such as sales numbers, revenue, and growth in specific areas. However, this data doesn’t tell you what makes customers tick and how to retain, attract and please customers. The truth is that many organizations own a treasure trove of data in customer service, which could […].

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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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Fixing Spring4Shell Starts With Software Supply Chain Management

DevOps.com

Spring4Shell is the latest call to action for radically improved software supply chain integrity. While Spring4Shell investigations continue, one conclusion is indisputable: We must holistically rethink the way we continuously inventory and manage the complex landscape of interrelated software and its sources. Whether or not Spring4Shell surpasses the breadth of impact of Log4j, there’s still […].

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Docker founder launches Dagger, a new DevOps platform

TechCrunch

It’s been almost exactly four years since Docker founder Solomon Hykes left the company that kickstarted the container revolution. Docker has gone through its share of ups and downs since then, including selling its enterprise business to Mirantis in 2019, but Hykes, who was long the public face of Docker, mostly stayed on the periphery, with the exception of his participation in a few funding rounds.

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6 Must-Haves for Maximizing Virtual Dojo Engagement

Agile Alliance

Immersive Learning Dojos are an agile staple that consistently yield longstanding success in terms of skill building and habit development. A major contributing factor to Dojo success is collocation. Think hyper-collocation: an open space concept filled with whiteboard walls, oversized monitors, pairing stations, and busy collaboration. But when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the worldwide lockdown … Continued.