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Building a Cohesive Design System: A Project Narrative

Xebia

In the fast-paced world of design and development, the importance of a robust and cohesive design system cannot be overstated. However, it is often overlooked and built-in fragmented spare time, leading to a Frankenstein Design System that introduces more complexities than solutions. Defining the Design System The first step in our journey was to redefine the concept of a design system.

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Dell cuts jobs amid growing economic uncertainties

CIO

Reflecting a wider industry trend, Dell has revealed workforce reductions, attributing this decision to the ongoing macroeconomic environment that continues to affect demand across the sector. In its latest filing, the company said it continued executing cost management measures, “including limiting external hiring, employee reorganizations, and other actions” to align its investments with strategic priorities and customer needs.

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Uncovering the seams in Mainframes for Incremental Modernisation

Martin Fowler

Mainframe systems continue to run much of the world's computing workload, but it's often difficult to add new features to support growing business needs. Furthermore the architectural challenges that make them slow to enhance also make them hard to replace. To reduce the risk involved, we use an incremental approach to legacy displacement, gradually replacing legacy capabilities with implementations in modern technology.

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My successful transition from project manager to Scrum master

Agile Alliance

A project manager's transformation into a Scrum master, detailing the challenges, mindset shifts, and growth experienced during the transition to embrace Agile methodologies. The post My successful transition from project manager to Scrum master first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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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What happens when you mess up data modeling?

Xebia

There has been an uptick in discussions surrounding the modern data stack, data mesh and self-service promising to solve many of your company’s data problems. However, in Xebia Data’s Analytics Engineering team’s day-to-day work for clients, we still see small and large companies struggling to address most of the core concepts. It’s great that data analytics is now more accessible than ever for anyone to get involved in due to all of these new tools, but this has a lot of

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Uncovering Seams in a Mainframe's external interfaces

Martin Fowler

Alessio Ferri and Tom Coggrave start detailing the seams they explored with two areas of external interfaces. Batch input of files are copied to new implementations while comparing the output of the processing pipelines. API access points can be covered with a proxy and traffic gradually directed to the new implementation.

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Agile Alliance Call for Nominations for the Board of Directors

Agile Alliance

Agile Alliance is pleased to announce our Call for Nominations for Agile Alliance Board of Directors term of 2025-2027. The post Agile Alliance Call for Nominations for the Board of Directors first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Is Your Company’s Data Ready for Generative AI?

Harvard Business Review

While CDOs and data leaders are excited about generative AI, they have much work to do to get ready for it. A recent survey of 334 CDOs and data leaders — and a series of interviews with these executives — reveals that companies have not yet created new data strategies or begun to manage their data in the ways necessary to make generative AI work for them.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

Enterprise CIOs have always been at a disadvantage competing with tech firms for skilled IT pros, but accelerated transformation efforts and an AI gold rush have significantly intensified the talent war, prompting CIOs to increasingly turn to outside firms for help. “Collaboration with external partners allows enterprises to enhance their IT prowess, drive innovation, and bridge skill gaps more effectively amid a swiftly evolving digital landscape,” says Arpita Dwivedi, practice director at Ever

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Farewell, John Kordyback

Martin Fowler

John Kordyback, a treasured colleague and friend, died last week, aged 64.

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Reflections on the Digital Cleanup Gathering 2024

Agile Alliance

The Agile Sustainability Initiative's Digital Cleanup Gathering on March 15, 2024, focused on reducing digital clutter, featuring expert insights and practical tips to encourage digital hygiene and sustainability. The post Reflections on the Digital Cleanup Gathering 2024 first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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When Attending Industry Events, Avoid These Legal Risks

Harvard Business Review

There are plenty of good reasons to attend industry conferences, trade fairs, and other events, but they also present opportunities for the accidental disclosure of sensitive company information or other actions that run afoul of fair-competition regulations. Through their work executive coaching leaders in emerging and traditional technology ecosystems and working with organizations on ethics and compliance challenges, the authors have uncovered several strategies to equip your team to attend i

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Women in tech increasingly dissatisfied, job search rates surge

CIO

A troubling trend within the tech industry is coming into sharp focus: women are significantly more likely to be actively seeking new employment than their male counterparts. A new study from the tech job search platform Dice reveals that 38% of women in tech are currently engaged in a job search, compared to 30% of men. The primary drivers of this dissatisfaction are a persistent pay gap and workplace culture issues that often leave women feeling marginalized.

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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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2023 Him For Her And Crunchbase Study Of Gender Diversity On Private Company Boards

Crunchbase News

This report was produced through a collaboration between Him For Her and Crunchbase. Contributors include Gené Teare of Crunchbase and Laura Gluhanich of Him For Her. Lauren Rivera, professor at Kellogg School of Management, co-authored the original 2019 benchmark study upon which subsequent annual research has been based. Executive summary Our fifth annual study, which characterizes the boards of the most heavily funded private companies in the U.S., reveals significant improvement in board div

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Agile Alliance Launches Young Professionals Committee

Agile Alliance

Join Agile Alliance ion a journey of growth, learning, and innovation by participating in the virtual launch of the Young Professionals Committee on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. The post Agile Alliance Launches Young Professionals Committee first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Research: How Different Fields Are Using GenAI to Redefine Roles

Harvard Business Review

The interactive, conversational, analytical, and generative features of GenAI offer support for creativity, problem-solving, and processing and digestion of large bodies of information. Therefore, these features can act as cognitive resources for knowledge workers. Moreover, the capabilities of GenAI can mitigate various hindrances to effective performance that knowledge workers may encounter in their jobs, including time pressure, gaps in knowledge and skills, and negative feelings (such as bor

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How to get your CFO to buy into a better model for IT funding

CIO

CFOs want certainty when it comes to spend. And they want to know exactly how much return on investment (ROI) can be expected when IT leaders make technology-related changes. Meanwhile, CIOs want certainty when it comes to funding. Continuous and dependable funding facilitates IT leaders’ ability to deliver leading-edge technology solutions while not increasing technical debt.

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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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AI-Powered Accounting Startup FundGuard Locks Up $100M

Crunchbase News

Artificial intelligence is disrupting most industries, and financial services certainly is no exemption. To that point, New York-based FundGuard , an AI-powered investment accounting platform for asset managers, raised a fresh $100 million led by Key1 Capital and new investors including Euclidean Capital and funds managed by Hamilton Lane. The round also included participation from existing strategic investors, the company says, as well as previous investors such as Blumberg Capital and Team8.

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Agile Alliance New Zealand: Who we are and where we’re going

Agile Alliance

Agile Alliance New Zealand is a volunteer-led society founded in 2016 to foster Agility across industries and support local Agile communities in adapting to evolving practices. The post Agile Alliance New Zealand: Who we are and where we’re going first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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To Accelerate Growth, Analyze Your Company Like an Investor

Harvard Business Review

Private equity (PE) firms have a proven approach to identify areas for revenue growth, value creation, and cost reduction: due diligence. But companies rarely use this same approach in the execution of their own growth strategy. This is a missed opportunity. The same due diligence skills and tools can be found in most large companies, but they are usually siloed in the corporate development team — the folks who handle M&A, who rarely have a chance to apply their expertise to a company’s ongoing

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Government, Energy, and IT sectors identified as primary targets for cyber threat actors in the UAE

CIO

Cybersecurity is established as one of the priorities of companies in the UAE, proof of this is the increase in investment and the participation of the CISO in the management committee. Cybersecurity in UAE’s companies is one of the top priorities; new work models and growing cyber threats have caused companies to dedicate more staff and capital to mitigating these types of risks.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Francis Scott Key Bridge collapses after being hit by cargo ship: gCaptain has best context

Ooda Loop

The Francis Scott Key Bridge in the US city of Baltimore has collapsed after being struck by a container ship. Several vehicles were crossing the bridge when the container ship made contact with one of its supports.

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11 VS Code extensions you didn’t know you needed

InfoWorld

Visual Studio Code is a terrific software development environment, and not only because it has excellent code-editing features and language support. Thanks to its rich culture of extensions , VS Code supports many tasks besides editing. You’ll find VS Code extensions for everything from a speedier way to navigate the editor to effortlessly inserting placeholder text and images.

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How Pixar Fosters a Culture of Vulnerability at Work

Harvard Business Review

In an era where the boundary between work and personal life is increasingly blurred, navigating personal story sharing demands a nuanced approach. For workers, sharing the personal remains essential to their well-being and success, but requires an intentional and strategic approach. The way forward for leaders involves dismantling workplace paradigms that penalize some individuals for sharing with vulnerability.

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Think you can ignore quantum computing? Think again.

CIO

“It’s been known since the 1990s that a large-scale quantum computer will be able to break many of the crypto systems we rely on for security,” says Dustin Moody, leader of Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) in Maryland. In 1994, American mathematician Peter Shor developed quantum algorithms to factor integers and solve the discrete logarithm problem.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

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

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Mastering the Observer pattern in JavaScript

MagmaLabs

Reading Time: 6 minutes Mastering the Observer pattern in JavaScript Introduction The Observer pattern is a design pattern that allows an object (the observer) to be notified of changes to another object (the subject). This pattern is widely used in software development, and it can be implemented in various programming languages, including JavaScript.

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Ethics makes a comeback in cloud-based systems

InfoWorld

Years ago, I found myself sitting in a conference room dealing with a question that I’ve gotten thousands of times in my career: Was the technology I was representing, which I created as the CTO of an enterprise technology company (I’m being purposely vague), the right fit for a specific customer problem that I had just learned about in that conference room?

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Five Chinese nationals among six killed in suicide bomb attack in Pakistan

Ooda Loop

Five Chinese nationals and a Pakistani driver were killed after a suicide attacker rammed his vehicle that was filled with explosives into their convoy near Besham city. The attack on Tuesday occurred in northwest Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province when the convoy was on its way from Islamabad to Dasu.

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