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CIO Australia Webinar: Overcoming Barriers to Application Modernisation with SAP

CIO

That said, not all legacy is bad, with the onus on CIOs and other technology leaders to derive value from existing investments where possible. O’Driscoll and her team opted for the tighter deadline in a bid to reduce costs and ultimately deliver value faster. And as your complexity increases, so do dependencies.”.

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Cross-functional Team: Composition, Benefits, and Good Practices

Existek

Have you thought about the concept of a cross-functional team? What differentiates it from setting up traditional teams? How can it improve the software development process? In this article, we’ll discuss the characteristics of a cross-functional team, the benefits of having one, and how to build and manage such a team.

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5 Steps of Building Communities of Practice

Evolution4all

It will help your team share new strategies, open new business opportunities, share best practices and find solutions to challenges the company face. It also allows every member to expand their knowledge base and share their insights and expertise in order to boost productivity. Provide Resources and Support to New Communities.

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Value Stream Mapping Gone Wrong

Coveros

As an Agile Coach, Scrum Master, and instructor, I meet and interact with many people who have used Value Stream Mapping to successfully transform product and service delivery by focusing on value delivery to their customers and eliminating waste in delivering that value. Wikipedia – [link]. Creating a Value Stream Map.

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Where Has All the Business Knowledge Gone?

The Agile Manager

It went unnoticed because their knowledge was captured in code, and the developers knew the code. Then the original developers disappeared, either because they aged out, got better opportunities with other firms (tech people tend to change jobs frequently), or got caught up in the offshoring thing in the early 2000s.

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Advanced RAG patterns on Amazon SageMaker

AWS Machine Learning - AI

This post discusses RAG patterns to improve response accuracy using LangChain and tools such as the parent document retriever in addition to techniques like contextual compression in order to enable developers to improve existing generative AI applications. LangChain is an open source Python library designed to build applications with LLMs.

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Conflict, Part I

The Agile Manager

But the magic left the development team years ago: it had been gutted by several rounds of staff cuts that took the garrulous personalities and innovative thinkers. It took the wind from development's sails: those who were still on the payroll were just happy to have kept their jobs.