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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

In 2004 the Corporate Executive Board’s research showed an 87% decrease in the likelihood of departure for highly engaged employees. In such an underperforming state, without leadership that can drive real change, organizations are trapped in a vicious cycle. Disengaged teams stem from disengaged leaders. It’s business as usual.

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A Microsoft Bigot’s Guide To Windows 10

Modus Create

I am a bigot when it comes to operating systems, editors, languages, and so on. With decades of experience as a developer and network engineer, I have seen my own personal progression of preferred workstation operating systems from DOS to Windows 3, to Windows 95, to Amiga, to OS/2, to Windows 7, and finally to Linux and macOS.

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The Good and the Bad of Selenium Test Automation Tool

Altexsoft

With a list of several programming languages, all main operating systems and browsers supported, Selenium is currently used in production in such companies as Netflix, Google, HubSpot, Fitbit, and more. Jason Huggins’ 2004 creation was a JavaScript framework aimed at freeing its creator from repetitive manual testing.

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AoAD2 Practice: Simple Design

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. One of the things I’ve been trying to do is look for simpler [rules] underpinning good or bad design.

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Five World-Changing Software Innovations

LeanEssays

CEO Jeff Bezos believed that the only way to scale to the level he had in mind was to create small autonomous teams. Thus by 2003, Amazon had restructured its digital organization into small (two-pizza) teams, each with end-to-end responsibility for a service.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

He describes “some surprising theories about software engineering”: I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. However, the open source world figured out a better way to develop software.

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The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Most monopolies or duopolies develop over time, and have been considered dangerous to competitive markets ; now they are sought after from the start and are the holy grail for investors. How might that market have developed differently? Now we aim to scale up our team to support the entire state in this ambitious program.