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10 digital transformation roadblocks — and 5 tips for overcoming them

CIO

Lack of vision A common reason digital transformation fails is due to a lack of vision, which along with planning is the foundation for digital success. Poor execution Even the best plans can fail if execution is poor. This may require hiring outside experts and/or investing in training and development for existing staff.

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

CIO

Data due diligence Generative AI especially has particular implications for data security, Mann says. Feed in your entire Slack or Teams history and you may end up with responses like, “I’ll work on that tomorrow,” which would be perfectly appropriate from human employees but aren’t what you expect from a gen AI system.

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AoAD2 Practice: Test-Driven Development

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. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Why TDD Works.

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Fundamentals of Data Engineering

Xebia

The following is a review of the book Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis and Matt Housley, published by O’Reilly in June of 2022, and some takeaway lessons. The data engineer is also expected to create agile data architectures that evolve as new trends emerge. The audience is very broad when described that way.

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Scrum by Example – Same Old Song in Sprint Retrospective

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

The World’s Smallest Online Bookstore team has just come out of their Sprint Review. For those who’re keeping score, the team committed to a Sprint Goal: Have basic reader review system in place so book buyers can see a variety of opinions about a book. By Sprint Review time they’d completed five of the seven.

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Letting change and uncertainty advance your software architecture

CircleCI

The market is changing, our business is evolving, our customer base is growing, and our team is scaling. How do we design our systems in a manner that can adapt and change to things that don’t even exist when we start building it? After that scaling phase, you’ll have a larger organization and far more teams.

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Four growth strategies for individual contributors

CircleCI

Some find a natural niche as leaders and work into management positions where they end up leading teams and designing career paths for others. Conversely, some thrive and become leaders by developing their own paths as an individual contributor (IC). It could be a piece of code, a system design, or even a business concept like margin.

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