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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

You can of course make a series of obviously bad decisions, but you'd get fired quickly. Make sure production environment differs from developer environments in as many ways as possible. Leverage any production issue as a reason to “pull the brakes” Introduce very complex processes for code change and common workflows.

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10 ways to kill your IT culture

CIO

Without a strong IT culture, inspiring IT teams to extend beyond their “run the business” responsibilities into areas requiring collaboration between business colleagues, data scientists, and partners is challenging. Additionally, 84% of leaders believed their organizations had strong teamwork compared to 60% of team members.

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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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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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6 ways to prepare for a difficult conversation with a direct report

CIO

Fundamentally, it boils down to whether the individual is meeting performance expectations and contributing positively to the team and broader culture,” she explains. These skills can’t be developed overnight; instead they need to be studied and practiced frequently. Still, the team and objectives must always come first.

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Weights & Biases raises $135M Series C to keep building MLOps software

TechCrunch

According to Weights & Biases co-founder Lukas Biewald , the software world has a set of tools built for developers to write and deploy code well. And today, he explained, many ML teams are working with ad-hoc tooling or simply without software assistance. monitoring ( Atlassian , Datadog , etc.), and the like.

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Astro emerges from stealth to connect Latin American developers with US tech companies

TechCrunch

Astro , a startup helping companies to build and manage developer teams with talent from Latin America, today exited from stealth with $13 million in Series A funding contributed by Greycroft with participation by Obvious Ventures and other unnamed investors. million by 2030. based tech companies.