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How Agile Meetings Impact Arousal Levels and Team Productivity

Apiumhub

In Agile environments, maintaining focus is crucial to achieving optimal performance, especially in complex tasks like software development. The challenge in professional environments, especially for Agile teams , is maintaining this balance so the team can perform at its best without experiencing burnout or exhaustion.

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Beyond Metrics – Why Human Capital is Key in Founding and Leadership Team Assessments

N2Growth Blog

Evaluating founding and leadership teams of portfolio companies and acquisition targets has become crucial for investment and operating partners. As businesses grow and adapt to shifting market demands, the strength of the leadership team often dictates a company’s ability to scale and succeed.

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

When possible, refer all matters to committees for “further study and consideration” Attempt to make committees as large as possible — never less than five. Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision. What are some things you can do?

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Ways to ward off a doomed stakeholder management strategy

CIO

Leonard Poor stakeholder management can also lead to a lack of buy-in, miscommunication, and, ultimately, the failure of crucial initiatives. I’ve seen projects falter when IT leaders fail to recognize non-traditional stakeholders like marketing teams using unsanctioned tools,” says Leonard. “In

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Are you ready for MLOps? 🫵

Xebia

Gartner reported that on average only 54% of AI models move from pilot to production: Many AI models developed never even reach production. So then let me re-iterate: why, still, are teams having troubles launching Machine Learning models into production? Big part of the reason lies in collaboration between teams. What a waste!

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For successful AI projects, celebrate your graveyard and be prepared to fail fast

TechCrunch

AI teams invest a lot of rigor in defining new project guidelines. In the absence of clear guidelines, teams let infeasible projects drag on for months. They put up a dog and pony show during project review meetings for fear of becoming the messengers of bad news. Developing the AI solution is only half the battle.

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A strategic approach to legacy platform modernization: Minimizing risk while maximizing value

CIO

The meaning of legacy system modernization can be a bit challenging to pin down because IT leaders often use the term to refer to two fundamentally different processes. On the contrary, poor planning and design decisions could result in a scenario where modernization spawns more cost, security and/or IT management problems than it solves.

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