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Don't get locked up into avoiding lock-in

Martin Fowler

A lot of software architects expend time and energy trying to come up with ways to avoid lock-in. Sadly many of these discussions miss important elements of how lock-in works - it's certainly not a simple binary switch. Gregor Hohpe , who's probably spend more time in such meetings that he'd like to admit, has written what I think will be an essential article on the topic.

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3 mindset shifts for agile transformations

Marcusoft

I have been involved in many agile so-called transformations over my, let’s face it, long career. And the more I get to do that the less I care about the word agile. Because agile is just a way to behave - it’s not an outcome. The outcomes are what we are after, the effects, the values. I’ve found it much more fruitful to discuss what those values are and means, than to argue whether Scrum holds up for scaling or not.

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Building Agile Teams and Handling the First Iterations

Gorilla Logic

In software development, we often find ourselves struggling with estimations and ever-changing scenarios. This causes delays in delivery or an increase in the overall cost. Fortunately, there are many best practices we can implement to help mitigate these problems. In this post, I will outline ways I have learned to avoid delays in early iterations of development when building Agile teams.

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Organizational Open Space for Unleashing Innovation

Agile Alliance

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Article: The Death of Agile and Beyond

InfoQ Culture Methods

Agility as way of being for teams and organizations is crossing a critical juncture. In a very unique state of affairs, Agile is being adopted by organizations in various domains whilst many Agilists are expressing concerns that Agile has field. This article looks at the current state of agility, the challenges it faces and proposes some ideas around how Agilists can change the situation.

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10 Reasons Your Top Talent Will Leave You

N2Growth Blog

Have you ever noticed leaders spend a lot of time talking about people only to make the same mistakes over and over again? Without question, your top talent will leave you if you fail to lead and take care of them. Few things in business are as costly and disruptive as unexpected departures. With all the emphasis on leadership development, I always find it interesting so many companies continue to struggle with being able to retain their best people.

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Escaping the Tragedy of WIP

Agile Alliance

It is quite easy to say that we are drowning in work, and most business leaders accept the fact that they're trying to do too many things, too quickly, and not getting the impact they want. At the same time, they are confronted with coaches and advisers stating the obvious that they need to do less and focus more. Unfortunately, this is not useful, merely correct.

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Speaking Up: How to Foster a Courageous Culture (A Whitepaper)

Let's Grow Leaders

Is your team speaking up to share ideas, best practices, and advocate for your customers? “Why am I the only one who finds these issues? What’s wrong with my managers? Why can’t they see this stuff and fix it?” “We’ve got so […]. The post Speaking Up: How to Foster a Courageous Culture (A Whitepaper) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How to Plant the Seeds of Change Management

Change Starts Here

In a recent conversation, a project manager said she struggled to get others in her organization, especially leaders and other project managers, to use change management tools to analyze the people side of their projects. “How do I plant the seeds of change management?” she wondered.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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Potential Malicious Use Of IT By NASA Astronaut While On Orbit: Thought provoking but probably not hacking

CTOvision

Have you been numbed by constant reports of breaches? They get old for sure, especially since so many have at their core common issues that could have been avoided by application of best practices. Now here is an interesting/new story: A NASA astronaut is accused of hacking her estranged spouse’s bank account from space I […].

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Is our Past a Prologue for a Post-Bureaucratic Agile Management Revolution?

Agile Alliance

As the agile movement closes in on two decades, we have much to celebrate: team based agile is the software development norm across the world, adoption of scaled agile methods is growing as well, and business agility is now a thing. In this Age of Agile where we seek to apply agile principles and practices to entire enterprises, can our past be prologue for an amazing future Agile Management revolution?

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Where to Start When Your Team Won’t Collaborate

Let's Grow Leaders

You’ve got a clear goal, you’ve made sure everyone knows what matters most, but your team still won’t collaborate. It’s a frustration many leaders face. If this happens to you, it may be because you’ve only got halfway to the clarity […]. The post Where to Start When Your Team Won’t Collaborate appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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10 Reasons Your Top Talent Will Leave You

N2Growth Blog

Have you ever noticed leaders spend a lot of time talking about people only to make the same mistakes over and over again? Without question, your top talent will leave you if you fail to lead and take care of them. Few things in business are as costly and disruptive as unexpected departures. With all the emphasis on leadership development, I always find it interesting so many companies continue to struggle with being able to retain their best people.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Out of Date: Cloud Anti-Trends of 2019

DevOps.com

Let’s talk about 2019 cloud tech anti-trends. A lot of those anti-trends are nothing but cloud myths, which are still widely spread and talked about. In this article, we’ll take a look at some anti-trends and try to understand where’s the myth part in them. Private Cloud Is Not Popular Anymore According to the IDC […]. The post Out of Date: Cloud Anti-Trends of 2019 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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So…You Want To Submit To Be A Speaker

Agile Alliance

If you’re like me, you’ve submitted lots of abstracts to conferences (including this one) and been disappointed to be on the list of those not selected. Your idea was solid. Colleagues supported you through the submission process. And it wasn’t enough to be on the short list of speakers. I submitted for years before getting some quality mentoring on my submissions.

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How to Capture Best Practices in New Hire Orientation

Let's Grow Leaders

When it comes to new hire orientation, most companies focus on clarity. “This is how we roll, welcome to the team,” with an emphasis on values, vision, and “how we do things around here” policies. And if they’re really on it, maybe they’ll […]. The post How to Capture Best Practices in New Hire Orientation appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Why CIOs need to build cloud culture to drive digital transformation

TechBeacon

If you're a technology leader at a global enterprise, chances are you're thinking about digital transformation in 2019, or you are already transforming. It's no secret that there are many components to this process, from which cloud giant you go with to how you keep your data secure throughout the transition.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Weighing the Cost of Improper DevSecOps

DevOps.com

Simply put, data breaches are terrible news for companies. And, the costs associated with such attacks continue to escalate. A recent IBM-sponsored report found an average price of 3.92 million per breach. Not adapting security automation and vulnerability scanning into development pipelines could have a drastic effect not only on cost but workload efficiency and […].

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Presentation Karaoke

Agile Alliance

Come see what is likely to be the funniest session at all of Agile2019! Presentation Karaoke is very simple - as a presenter, you get a slide deck, and the audience gives you a topic (advanced) or pick your own topic (beginner). Your job is to come up with a presentation as you go, seeing the slides for the first time! As an attendee, you just have to sit back, learn a little and of course laugh!

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Build with Confidence: A Guide to JUnit Tests

Toptal

In an age of continuous delivery, Java developers have to be confident that their changes don't break existing code, hence automated testing. There's more than one valid approach to it, but how can you keep them straight?

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The 3 People That Stand In Your Way Of Business Success (And How To Move Them Aside)

Terry Starbucker

For every person that can help you on your way to personal and business success, there are many more that can do just the opposite – serve as big barriers that make the task that much more challenging. There are three people in particular that you need to be wary of, because you WILL encounter them along the way. In fact, you’ll see one EVERY DAY.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Radical Transparency in DevOps and ITSM Helps Achieve Excellent Customer Experience

DevOps.com

Here’s what I’ve noticed after spending several years in service management: DevOps is coming up more in the conversations I’m having with service desk leaders. Usually, these conversations start with one of the similar questions: DevOps is going to be the death of ITSM, correct? Alternatively, some consider DevOps as a challenge, and ITSM doesn’t […].

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How to Manage Your Attention in a World of Distraction

Agile Alliance

The research is clear — the state of our attention determines the state of our lives. Yet our attention has never been as overwhelmed or in-demand as it is today. We’ve never been so busy while accomplishing so little, and we’ve grown increasingly uncomfortable with a lack of stimulation and distraction. Modeled after Chris Bailey’s bestselling new book, Hyperfocus, this talk reveals how effectively managing our attention hinges on working with greater intention, taming stimulating distractions

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Analyzing the Effects of Negative Interest Rates Across Five Economies

Toptal

What happens when interest rates drop below zero - are you really paid to borrow money? Japan, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, and the Eurozone have all experienced negative rates and their experiences give pointers towards the effectiveness of such strategies.

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Monitoring Jenkins Using Instana

Dzone - DevOps

What is Jenkins? From the Jenkins website : "Jenkins is a self-contained, open-source automation server which can be used to automate all sorts of tasks related to building, testing, and delivering or deploying software." Jenkins is a popular automated Continuous Integration (CI) tool that helps facilitate Continuous Deployment (CD) although it does not perform the deployment action natively ( see Kubernetes ).

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Aspects of Machine Learning on the Edge

DevOps.com

Machine learning (ML) is hard. Making it work within the confined environment of an embedded device can easily become a quagmire unless we consider, and frequently revisit, the design and deployment aspects crucially affected by ML requirements. A bit of upfront planning makes the difference between project success and failure. For this article, our focus […].

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Agile Leadership in a Diverse Cultural Environment

Agile Alliance

Cultural diversity is an increasingly important reality for Agile teams. The way individual team members approach agile values and principles can vary based on their cultural background. Respecting the impact of various cultural backgrounds on how team members think, and act is essential for building a high performing agile team. On the other hand, lack of cultural awareness may lead – at the least - to failure of achieving the team potential.

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2019 Accelerate State of DevOps: How elites drive high performance

TechBeacon

DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA), a group that helps organizations achieve high DevOps and organizational performance with data-driven insights, and Google Cloud have launched the 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps Report.

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