Martin Fowler
MARCH 1, 2018
Ham completes his article on showing how to use test pyramid in practice by looking at acceptance tests and exploratory testing. He also finishes with a few words on pipelines and the need to avoid duplication in testing between the layers of the pyramid.
O'Reilly Media - Data
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
A comparison of the accuracy and performance of Spark-NLP vs. spaCy, and some use case recommendations. This is the third and final installment in this blog series comparing two leading open source natural language processing software libraries: John Snow Labs’ NLP for Apache Spark and Explosion AI’s spaCy. In the previous two parts, we walked through the code for training tokenization and part-of-speech models, running them on a benchmark data set, and evaluating the results.
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Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
You’re working hard to build a Winning Well culture. You’ve identified your MIT leadership competencies and are working to cultivate and encourage the right behaviors. How you staff your key leadership roles matters more now than ever. How will you identify the […]. The post How to Interview For Winning Leadership Competencies appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Women on Business
MARCH 1, 2018
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Martin Fowler
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
The whole point of the test pyramid is to remind us that broad scope tests should be rare, since they are usually expensive and slow. Rareness isn't the same as absence, so now Ham takes a look at role of UI tests and end-to-end testing in general.
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Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 1, 2018
Have you ever seen this dynamic? A manager has known “a kid” on their team forever. LOVES her. WANTS the best for her. AND is ironically holding her back. If you ask “the kid,” (who also loves and respects said manager), it’s […]. The post How Do I Stop My Boss From Treating Me Like a Kid? appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 24, 2018
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Ron Jeffries
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
To meet the deadline, all the software has to work on that day.
Toptal
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
Grocery delivery startup Instacart has recently been valued at $4.2 billion. In this article, Finance Expert Patrick Gaffney works backwards and uses some basic assumptions to determine if the valuation is reasonable. With companies opting to stay private for longer, analyzing private companies in this way can help us better understand industries typically shrouded in secrecy and provide clarity on the efficacy of certain business models.
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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?
Scott Berkun
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
On Tuesdays, I write about the top voted question on Ask Berkun (see the lovely archive ). This week’s question came via email from Pavel Pavia [43 votes]: Are engineers more creative than designers? Both answers (“Yes they are!” and “No they are not!”) are naive. It’s foolish to compare massive groups of people against each other especially around a sloppy word like creativity.
N2Growth Blog
FEBRUARY 24, 2018
To succeed in today’s rough and tumble business world you need a solid vision for how you can “digitalize” your business. Indeed, it is not enough to have a vivid and compelling business strategy. We must be able to discern what role we are expecting digital technology to play within the business. It is only with this understanding that we can establish the necessary linkages required to inform digital technology direction-setting.
Akana
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
The technical implications of complying to the PSD2 standard and how APIs can help. The post PSD2 & Open Banking: The technical implications appeared first on API Management Blog - Akana.
Toptal
MARCH 1, 2018
Traditionally confined to the realms of insurance and pensions, actuaries are now branching out into the wider business world. The long-termist and statistical approach of actuarial science makes it an invaluable tool for recurring income businesses. This article looks at how, showing examples of usage within customer lifetime value and human resources.
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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.
Terry Starbucker
FEBRUARY 25, 2018
Over the course of a long leadership journey you occasionally get to experience one of those extraordinary days that you remember, and draw on as a valuable lesson, for the rest of your business life. This is the story of one of those days. Back in 2009 when I was SVP of Operations with Bresnan Communications, I was in Butte, Montana for a morning staff meeting with the front office staff and field technicians.
Women on Business
MARCH 2, 2018
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Abstracta - Software Development
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
Putting to bed your fears about outsourcing software testing and QA once and for all Have you turned your back on the idea of outsourcing your software testing and QA (what we prefer to call quality engineering)? Maybe it was brought up once during a meeting. The post [Infographic] 6 Software Testing Outsourcing Myths Debunked appeared first on Abstracta Software Testing Services.
Toptal
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Innovative energy companies are deploying blockchain to streamline operations and improve customer experience. Building on our first article, we explore case studies in energy and highlight similar themes and lessons for exploring real-world blockchain applications.
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CTOvision
MARCH 2, 2018
One hundred percent of board of directors and other executive leaders I interact with know of the blockchain. Not all are fans of cryptocurrency, but all seem to be deeply interested in exploring the business impact of the distributed ledger that makes cryptocurrencies work. There are quite a few interesting use cases out there. Some […].
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
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CollabNet VersionOne
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
CollabNet reached out to its global audience at the end of last year and conducted an industry survey to learn more about DevOps priorities and the concerns of executive leaders, project managers, engineers and other software development and testing professionals. We asked more than 200 respondents, primarily from Fortune 2000 organizations, a few questions to better understand how we could serve their needs.
Toptal
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
For a large codebase, managing database schema can become tedious, especially if you maintain multiple testing environments or customers that update the product at different paces. Sometimes, documenting the latest schema or database changes isn't enough. In this article, Toptal Database Engineer Ivan Pavlov introduces us to concepts that help manage database states.
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CTOvision
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
If you'd like to speak at the Artificial Intelligence Conference in 2018 there are two calls for speakers that are currently open: San Francisco, September 4–7 deadline is March 13 London, October 8–11 deadline is April 17 The AI Conference blends the latest and most promising breakthroughs, exceptional technical content, and a relentless focus on […].
Loom Systems
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Pink Elephant's ITSM Leadership. Pink Elephant has taken upon itself to help organizations understand and priorities ITSM structures. Pink Elephant award was established by Pink Elephant in 1999, and recognizes individual and corporate commitment to IT excellence and ITSM best practices. ITOps and AI: Maximum Speed. To be eligible for the 'Innovation of the year' award, the innovative product or service must have been launched in 2017 either as an original product/service, or a major new release
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
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Professor Beekums
FEBRUARY 25, 2018
I recently heard of a situation where a team needs to hire someone since they’re understaffed. The reaction from one of the developers was simply: “I don’t want to maintain their code.” I understand this mentality. The worst code is always other people’s code. For most developers, this is simply fact. What is also fact is that very little software of significance gets built by the lone wolf.
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CTOvision
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
Can you believe it is already the 5th anniversary of the K-12 STEM Symposium? This event, coordinated by WashingtonExec's JD Kathuria, has been a fantastic connector of great employers who are interested in creating a future of abundance for all and STEM students K-12. This year promises to be even more incredible than past years, […].
Toptal
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
As several successful big brand products have demonstrated, designers can leverage game design concepts by adopting a game designer’s mindset to design better, more engaging products.
Dzone - DevOps
MARCH 1, 2018
This is Part 2 of the blog series on building microservices with Netflix OSS and Apache Kafka. The first part on installing Apache Kafka in a Docker container is published. Before this, I have also published a blog on Docker, so if anyone wants to take a look at Docker, they can read it here.
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