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NCWIT digitally transforms the DEI journey to help uplift women in IT

CIO

Founded in 2004, NCWIT’s mission has always been to “increase the meaningful and influential participation of women in tech” while respecting intersecting identities, with an overall emphasis on avoiding “treating women as a monolithic group,” says Catherine Ashcraft, a senior research scientist at NCWIT.

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

N2Growth Blog

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). In 2004 the Corporate Executive Board’s research showed an 87% decrease in the likelihood of departure for highly engaged employees. The problem is leadership on autopilot.

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Strangler Pattern: How to Deal With Legacy Code During the Container Revolution

OverOps

Is it the accumulation of code in an outdated system that’s seen changes from tens, or even hundreds, of developers over the years? It’s no wonder, considering it brings a lot of benefits into our workflow and build methods including shorter development times and increased flexibility. It’s both, really. So… What is it anyway?

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Attending Oracle’s CodeOne? Here Are 15 Sessions Everyone Will Be Talking About

OverOps

Is Boilerplate Code Really So Bad? Venkat Subramaniam , President, Agile Developer, Inc. Moscone West – Room 2004. No matter how quickly or slowly code moves through development or how diligent your testing is, some issues will only surface in production when real data is involved. Moscone West – Room 2004.

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Agile Transformation mistakes you must avoid at any cost!

Evolution4all

DOWNLOAD THE ROADMAP In 2004 I got my first job in NOKIA, I think I was lucky to be in the right company at the right time. Agile Transformation Executed Only On the Team Level Most organizations make this mistake. They believe that Agile transformation means simply implementing Agile only on the team level.

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4 Beliefs that Lead to Bad Decisions

Strategy Driven

While the presenting issue – resolving a budget shortfall, agreeing on a new strategy, or choosing which products to develop – is undoubtedly important, it’s often an unstated, underlying issue that stands in the way of a solution. In short, they are poor learners. You just finished reading 4 Beliefs that Lead to Bad Decisions !

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Three Reminders from the Arlington Cemetery Mess

Next Level Blog

The result of the poor leadership and management includes mismarked graves, unmarked graves, split graves and at least four burial urns that somehow ended up in a landfill. The problem was compounded in 2004 when the structure was changed to expand oversight of the cemetery from two organizations to four. Click Here.