The Parallax
MARCH 20, 2018
VANCOUVER—If you’ve been looking for another reason to replace your old Wi-Fi router, here it is: A group of hackers could be using it to hide the origins of its online attacks. Inception Framework’s attack methodology has evolved since it was first detected in 2014 in part by Waylon Grange, senior threat researcher at computer security company Symantec.
Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 20, 2018
When done well, corporate town hall meetings are an inspiring way to get everyone on the same page, to communicate your MIT priorities, to hear what’s on the minds of the people closest to your customer, and to say thank you. We’re […]. The post Town Hall Meetings: 6 Mistakes to Avoid in Your Leadership Message appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
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CTOvision
MARCH 21, 2018
The term “Big Data” has been around quite a while (see a short history of Big Data here), but really came into mainstream discussion in 2007 (which also happens to be the first year CTOvision used the word). The phrase had an important role in helping many of us think through new architectures for how […].
Change Starts Here
MARCH 22, 2018
A change manager was struggling to gain support for change management activities because the project was deemed a “no-brainer.” In other words, the project owners felt that the new system was such an improvement over the current way of doing things that no one could possibly have a problem with it. It was assumed that […].
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scruminc
MARCH 22, 2018
The process efficiency of executing a story on a Scrum team is the most important metric for team performance, because a team can easily double velocity in one sprint by driving process efficiency up over 50%. A team from India asked me what KPIs they should use and I told them just use process efficiency. They drove it to 80% within three days and on the fourth day had completed all work for a two-week sprint.
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Women on Business
MARCH 18, 2018
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Toptal
MARCH 19, 2018
Polished design wireframes are great but don't reveal the work that goes into research and content organization. See how a thorough approach to early project planning leads to successful website redesign.
CTOvision
MARCH 23, 2018
Founded in 2013, Blockchain Capital is one of the earliest and most active investors in the blockchain technology industry and the crypto ecosystem. Blockchain Capital has raised and deployed several venture funds, including the first ever ICO of a venture fund (BCAP) in April of 2017. The firm is based in San Francisco and was […].
Career Advancement
MARCH 19, 2018
“It is easier to motivate people to do something difficult than something easy.” ~Sheri L. Dew~. Lydia Asks: I don’t know how to make some of my people feel more invested in their work. I would have thought success alone would be the best motivation, but apparently not. How can I get people to care more about their work? Joel Answers: Increasing employee engagement is vital to retaining your people and succeeding as a company.
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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.
Women on Business
MARCH 19, 2018
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Toptal
MARCH 21, 2018
Dealing with a real database for integration and end-to-end testing can pose some challenges. One way of working around them is to use an in-memory database that integrates well with the testing framework and provides APIs to manipulate its state from test code. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Mikhail Angelov shows how you can write integration and end-to-end tests easily for your Node.js and MongoDB application without having to write complicated setup/teardown code.
CTOvision
MARCH 19, 2018
Editor's note: This post by Larry Cynkin was first published at his Green Bar site. Larry is a highly respected CTO delivering consulting services to startups and writes with the credibility that comes from real experience. -bg In a previous post I looked at how the adoption of not only cloud-based software platforms but ancillary cloud-based services has really taken off, supported […].
Career Advancement
MARCH 19, 2018
“It is easier to motivate people to do something difficult than something easy.” ~Sheri L. Dew~. Lydia Asks: I don’t know how to make some of my people feel more invested in their work. I would have thought success alone would be the best motivation, but apparently not. How can I get people to care more about their work? Joel Answers: Increasing employee engagement is vital to retaining your people and succeeding as a company.
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As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo
Women on Business
MARCH 22, 2018
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Toptal
MARCH 22, 2018
Professional sports franchises continue to see record sale prices. But what drives a team like the Dallas Cowboys, who haven't won a Super Bowl in over 20 years, to top the list of the most valuable sports franchises in the United States? In this article, Toptal Finance Expert David Turney provides an overview of professional sports economics, unique valuation considerations, and a team valuation example.
CTOvision
MARCH 19, 2018
Over the past decade, the concept of work has transformed. From coworking spaces to remote work retreats, productivity in the workplace is no longer dependent on sitting in an office for eight hours a day, seven days a week. One of the biggest outcomes from this shift has been the rapid development of technology that […].
A List Apart
MARCH 20, 2018
If you’ve spent enough time developing for the web, this piece of feedback has landed in your inbox since time immemorial: “This photo looks blurry. Can we replace it with a better version?”. Every time this feedback reaches me, I’m inclined to question it: “What about the photo looks bad to you, and can you tell me why? ”. That’s a somewhat unfair question to counter with.
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SCRUMstudy
MARCH 19, 2018
Scrum is a highly viable software development methodology, and the teams implementing Scrum seldom experience failure. However, it would be wrong to assume that Scrum is a panacea for all sorts of problems and impediments surfacing during the development process. As a matter of fact, if the team implementing Scrum fails to deliver, Scrum is not to be blamed as a process by itself never goes wrong; instead, the shortcomings and flaws lie in the implementation of that methodology.
Toptal
MARCH 23, 2018
As applications become more complex, having good logs can be very useful, not only when debugging but also to provide insight in application issue/performance.
CTOvision
MARCH 23, 2018
Scaleworks has a unique model for investing in and scaling companies they call Venture Equity. They seek to acquire B2B SaaS product companies and then invest in the people and scale good companies to be great companies via an array of growth activities. What is Venture Equity? Here is how it is described by Ed […].
Women on Business
MARCH 19, 2018
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Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?
Lead on Purpose
MARCH 19, 2018
Business owners and entrepreneurs are often asked this leader vs. manager question regarding their management style. For many, these two words are synonymous; both are important for motivating people to work towards a common goal.
Toptal
MARCH 21, 2018
UI and UX are two design terms that often get used in the wrong context. Designers who call themselves “UI designers,” or design for trends rather than users, could be harming their reputation.
CTOvision
MARCH 23, 2018
Bitcoin’s here to stay - there’s no doubting that at this point. Despite the wild price fluctuations the cryptocurrency underwent in late 2017, and despite the fact that other blockchain-based digital currencies are much less expensive to both buy (and to mine), the primacy of the grandaddy of all cryptocurrencies is intact. Aside from the […].
Enlume
MARCH 23, 2018
Fintech is rapidly expanding with technology advancements almost in real-time. This made us come up with a new version of our last year’s viral infographic, ‘ Fintech startups to watch in 2017 ‘ Countries like India witnessed a quantum increase in digital transactions over the previous years. Many Fintech start-ups have introduced innovative solutions targeting the unbanked segment with digital wallets and have expanded their platform-level use cases.
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Women on Business
MARCH 21, 2018
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Toptal
MARCH 22, 2018
UI and UX are two design terms that often get used in the wrong context. Designers who call themselves “UI designers,” or design for trends rather than users, could be harming their reputation.
CTOvision
MARCH 22, 2018
On March 21, 2018 the New York Times reported that the White House was going to take aggressive action against China for illegal trade practices as well as intellectual property theft. The administration is right to do so. Drive thru middle America and you’ll see closed factories whose products are now manufactured in China. For […].
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