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Diversity and inclusion: 7 best practices for changing your culture

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According to a recent study in the Harvard Business Review (HBR), organizations of all sizes have made unprecedented investments around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the past few years. Knowing your goals and how you are performing against those goals gives you a workable plan for improving what needs attention.

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What is SAFe? A framework for scaling business agility

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Apply systems thinking into all facets of development. Base milestones on objective estimation and evaluation of working systems to ensure there is an economic benefit. Lean portfolio management: By applying Lean and systems thinking, SAFe organizations ensure their entire portfolio is aligned and funded to deliver strategic value.

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5 steps for making tech ethics work for your company

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While those approaches will certainly be necessary to ensure AI systems are designed and built to be safe, they should be augmented by careful, principled, and practical technology development by enterprises seeking to make good on the promise of the technology.

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Writing Useful Performance Reviews: Evaluating the data and writing the review

Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

This article is the second in a four-part series on writing performance reviews. In this article, I talk about filling out the review form. The final post covers delivering the review. Before you begin to write your review, make sure you have the role and level definition for the person’s current role and level.

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Writing Useful Performance Reviews: Making a raise recommendation

Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

This article is part three of my series on writing valuable performance reviews. The final part gives you tips on delivering the review. Determining compensation is a crucial part of performance management. Salary is a direct measure of employee performance. The first part is about preparing for the evaluation.

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Digital transformation’s fundamental change management mistake

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Underpinning these initiatives is a slew of technology capabilities and strategies aimed at accelerating delivery cycles, such as establishing product management disciplines, building cloud architectures, developing devops capabilities, and fostering agile cultures.

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

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“We like to make the distinction that it’s about fixing systems, not fixing women,” says Ashcraft. NCWIT’s Workforce Alliance is for professionals and organizations who want to learn more about retaining employees, inclusive leadership, and creating systemic organizational change.