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Mending the rift between business stakeholders and development teams

Xebia

In today’s business world, the synergy between stakeholders, product management and development teams are paramount. Customer’s problem At one of our major clients at Xebia customers complained, that the project velocity was inconsistent, while the development team seemed perpetually busy.

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7 Modern Performance Appraisal Methods to Boost Workforce Development

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Rather, it is now viewed as a central source for workforce development, assisting employees in growing and contributing towards organizational goals as contributors themselves. These are characterized by the totality of development of employees and constant feedback, collaboration, as well as the achievement of measurable results.

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5 surefire ways to derail a digital transformation (without knowing it)

CIO

CIOs can’t be involved in every strategic discussion or dive into every initiative’s details, but there are several high-level signs that indicate a digital transformation may be destined to underperform, especially as CIOs add initiatives. But are product managers developing market- and customer-driven roadmaps and prioritized backlogs?

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How to Build a High-Performance Team

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

A high-performance team thrives by fostering trust, encouraging open communication, and setting clear goals for all members to work towards. Effective team performance is further enhanced when you align team members’ roles with their strengths and foster a prosocial purpose.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA Breaks Into Agency, Outlines Weak Spots in Report, as Cloud Security Alliance Updates Cloud Sec Guidance

Tenable

CISA’s red team acted like a nation-state attacker in its assessment of a federal agency’s cybersecurity. 1 - CISA’s red team breaches fed agency, details lessons learned A new, must-read report from the U.S. 1 - CISA’s red team breaches fed agency, details lessons learned A new, must-read report from the U.S.

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OpenAI sets up new safety body in wake of staff departures

CIO

OpenAI is setting up a new governance body to oversee the safety and security of its AI models, as it embarks on the development of a successor to GPT-4. The first task for the OpenAI Board’s new Safety and Security Committee will be to evaluate the processes and safeguards around how the company develops future models.

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10 things to watch out for with open source gen AI

CIO

Enterprises are allowed to use the models commercially, and for developers to create and distribute additional work on top of the base Llama models, but they’re not allowed to use Llama outputs to improve other LLMs unless they are themselves Llama derivatives. Many model developers are talking about using curated data,” she says.