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Three practices managers can use gamification to drive enterprise change

Xebia

Changing hard controls, such as reward schemes and changing the organization architecture, are not always available for managers as tools to achieve enterprise change. Of course, this is just a tiny bit of gamification options that you have to achieve enterprise change. Do you want to have a chat about gamification?

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Is the power of people skills enough to keep gen AI in check?

CIO

And it plans to add more than 1,080 new soft skills-related offerings this year, including live training courses, video courses, and books. “IT IT is not an individual sport,” says Laura Baldwin, president at O’Reilly Media. That might continue to work for a few rarified geniuses, he adds. But most of us are mere mortals,” he says.

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Mastering Hardware: My Nand2Tetris Journey Begins

Xebia

Enter Nand2Tetris , a course on coursera.org by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken. I first learned about this course a few years ago when a good friend introduced it to me. Finally, In January 2023 I decided to commit to completing the course. I want to make it clear that I found this course incredibly worth it.

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The Spotify Model of Scaling – Spotify Doesn’t Use It, Neither Should You

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Alignment – instead of telling people what to do for both product features and product architecture, focus on getting teams to align to a common product goal. Engineering Culture that focuses on building Quality and Simplicity – build a Continuous Delivery pipeline that allows teams to deliver value independently of one another.

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Making the Internet faster at Netflix

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Sachin: Yeah, that’s super inspiring for our audience and, like you correctly said, you got to seek those opportunities, and of course you need a little bit of luck, but if you’re willing to take those risks, doors do open. It’s firstly rooted in the engineering culture because the first Netflix employees are great people.

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The Rise of the Front-End Developer

LaunchDarkly

Not just because front end engineering has evolved, but I’ve gone from working in a tiny agency, that basically had three people working at it, to a slightly larger agency that had a few more people in it. I think 10,000 or 12,000, working not on engineering, of course, but it’s the biggest company I’ve worked at.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

As the company outgrew its traditional cathedral-style software architecture in the early 2000’s, the leadership team felt that the growing pains could be addressed with better communication between teams. In other words, a bazaar-style hardware architecture was vastly superior to a cathedral-style architecture.)