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The future of Agile in the next 20 years

Agile Alliance

Twenty years have already passed since the Agile Manifesto and we need to start discussing where Agile is going to have an impact in the next 20 years. The post The future of Agile in the next 20 years first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Lucky is bringing brands, retailers together with its take on product merchandising

TechCrunch

Shifting consumer buying behaviors means brands can’t only rely on selling via one channel anymore. For e-commerce and traditional retailers looking at new ways to connect and engage with consumers, Lucky believes its approach enables them to work together to not only achieve that goal, but give consumers a better shopping experience. The one-year-old company was founded by Sneh Parmar, who has a background in consumer purchasing behavior, and Nafis Azad, whose background is in software UX and p

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The 6 Enablers of Business Agility

Agile Alliance

Many organisations are built to survive and thrive in a 20th century business climate. A climate marked by relative stability and low levels of competition, where efficiently delivering known products and services for years was the recipe for success. The post The 6 Enablers of Business Agility first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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ProtonMail buys email alias startup SimpleLogin

TechCrunch

Proton , the Geneva, Switzerland-based startup behind the eponymous E2E encrypted webmail service ProtonMail , has acquired French startup SimpleLogin , which offers a freemium, open-source service for creating email aliases to let people shield their actual email address when they sign up for digital services. Paris-based SimpleLogin was founded back in 2019 and works as a browser extension, web app and mobile app — also offering users a dashboard where they can disable aliases (such as i

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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The Art of Unlearning: A Conscious Choice for Successful Agile Transformation

Agile Alliance

It’s been 20 years of the Agile Manifesto. It’s still impactful and relevant; however, many agile transformations aren’t getting the expected outcomes. The post The Art of Unlearning: A Conscious Choice for Successful Agile Transformation first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Top 5 Data and Security Topics on AWS

Xebia

Introduction. More organisations are starting to recognize the value of data. But to get started requires storage, tools and skills. With these requirements, and especially when concerning (personal) data, security related questions start popping up. AWS offers solutions to all these problems. In this blog post we want to touch on our top 5 security related topics when it comes to managing a data lake or running a data warehouse on AWS.

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Does your startup have enough runway? 5 factors to consider

TechCrunch

Marjorie Radlo-Zandi. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Marjorie Radlo-Zandi is an entrepreneur, board member, mentor to startups and angel investor who shows early-stage businesses how to build and successfully scale their businesses. More posts by this contributor. Be an entrepreneur who leads with transparency. How to calculate your startup’s TAM, SAM and SOM.

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DevSecOps in Azure

DevOps.com

DevSecOps is everywhere, and chances are your organization is shifting toward this convergence of development, security and operations. In an on-premises environment, you build your own DevSecOps process by mixing and matching existing and new tools. However, in the cloud, much of the environment is determined by your cloud provider. Microsoft’s Azure cloud is known […].

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Landline wants to fully check you in for your flight — far from the airport

TechCrunch

Running an airline is a tough industry, with many companies either folding shop or merging with rivals to survive. Being an airline passenger isn’t a walk in the park, for a litany of reasons that anyone who has ever been in an airport can easily enumerate. Landline , a four-year-old, Fort Collins, Colorado-based transportation startup, thinks it has struck on a way to create a better experience for both airlines and their passengers.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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The 7 Myths of MLOps

Dataiku

MLOps is a term that is gaining a lot of traction, but definitions of the concept remain blurry and many misleading myths are circulating. In “The 7 Myths of MLOps,” a recent Dataiku Product Days session, we have aimed to set the record straight with some reality checks and myth-busting. This blog recaps the useful information revealed in the session.

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What Glossier got wrong

TechCrunch

Evan J. Zimmerman. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Evan J. Zimmerman is the founder and CEO of Drift , a genomics software company, and chairman of Jovono , a venture capital firm. More posts by this contributor. Twitter’s acquisition strategy: Eat the public conversation. CFIUS Cometh: What this obscure agency does and why it matters to your fund or startup.

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Agile Development at 20: Can it Thrive in the Hybrid Work Era?

DevOps.com

The Agile Manifesto turns 20 this year, and while many of the core tenets are still applicable, the world has changed considerably in the last two decades. What would the Agile Manifesto look like if it was written today and took into consideration our new reality of hybrid working environments? Changes are most definitely needed, […]. The post Agile Development at 20: Can it Thrive in the Hybrid Work Era?

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A newcomer to AI data labeling, Encord looks to ride a rising tidal wave

TechCrunch

Before you can even think about building an algorithm to read an X-ray or interpret a blood smear, the machine has to know what’s what in an image. All of the promise of AI in healthcare — an area that has attracted $11.3 billion in private investment in 2021, can’t be realized without carefully labeled data sets that tell machines what exactly they’re looking for.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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The Return To Senselessness With Richard Dreyfuss

Steve Farber

Will society ever be able to reach its full potential? Passionate actor turned passionate civics activist Richard Dreyfuss joins us today to share excerpts from his upcoming book, The Return to Senselessness. His book. Read more. The post The Return To Senselessness With Richard Dreyfuss first appeared on Steve Farber.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Psychedelic biotech, Gogoro’s SPAC, H-1Bs for Ukrainians

TechCrunch

You may not have heard of Amadeus, but if you’ve taken a trip, you’ve probably interacted with its tech stack. Launched in 1987, the company provides hundreds of transportation and hospitality providers with inventory management and booking services. “In short, it covers just about every aspect of travel IT imaginable,” writes enterprise reporter Ron Miller.

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Making work work in the COVID impacted workplace

CEO Insider

As the challenges and opportunities of the post-COVID landscape continue to unfold, so does the need to perform. Sustaining engagement and holding on to talent have always been important. But it is emerging as the strategic imperative for the progress and performance organizations need to survive and thrive in our new economic context, in which […].

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Arrival’s Avinash Rugoobur to reveal EV built with Uber at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

TechCrunch

Arrival, a U.K.-based electric vehicle company that went public last year, has set itself a lofty goal. The company aims to produce electric vehicles that cost less than other EVs and competes with pricing on fossil fuel-powered vehicles. A lofty goal requires a bold plan. For Arrival, that means bypassing the traditional large-scale or even “giga-sized” factory used by major automakers and instead turning to a much smaller and decentralized approach.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Radware Embraces APIs to Improve AppSec Across Multiple Clouds

DevOps.com

Radware this week launched an application programming interface (API) approach to securing multiple clouds designed from the ground up to be an extension of a DevSecOps workflow. Eyal Arazi, a senior product marketing manager in Radware’s security group, said that Radware SecurePath makes it possible to invoke any of the company’s cloud security offerings via […].

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The answers to real estate’s climate tech questions may be all around us

TechCrunch

Dave Mullen. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Dave Mullen is an investor at SVB Capital , where he focuses largely on fintech, proptech and insurtech. Dave was previously an investor with Wells Fargo’s principal investment arm and is currently the proptech vertical lead for the EVCA. More posts by this contributor. Fintech founders can learn a lesson about frugality from these industry leaders.

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The Complete SaaS Budgeting Guide For Tracking Cloud Spend

CloudZero

For SaaS companies, the cloud plays a significant role in product creation and delivery. As one of the top drivers of COGS, cloud costs have a major impact on key financial metrics and can dramatically impact revenue and valuation.

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Apply to pitch your startup at TC Sessions: Mobility

TechCrunch

TC Sessions: Mobility is back… in person! TechCrunch Editorial is on the hunt for six early stage startups to feature in a pitch-off on the Main Stage. On May 18-20, the industry’s brightest entrepreneurs will take the stage in front of a live audience and a panel of industry experts, pitching revolutionary technologies. Founders – you have what it takes.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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GitOps Best Practices for DevOps Teams

Dzone - DevOps

GitOps is a relatively new approach to managing production environments with the help of automation, containerization, and orchestration technologies. The idea behind GitOps is to have all the necessary infrastructure components up and running before pushing code to production. With such an automated deployment technique, every change is deployed in a predictable manner.

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Sequoia-backed SwooshTransfer raises millions of dollars to automate cross-border payments

TechCrunch

China’s export-oriented e-commerce has been flourishing over the last few years as the world demands its electronics, fast fashion, sporting gear and other everyday goods. While the country’s digital exporters revel in the boom, they also face challenges. One of their biggest pain points has been payments collection, which normally involves high costs, delays and insufficient transparency.

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Tacking into business headwinds with digital transformation

TechBeacon

Businesses are sailing rapidly toward more automated operations. To better understand why, let's look at how some of today's most forward-thinking companies have met four of the most challenging headwinds.

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Just how much has late-stage venture capital slowed?

TechCrunch

The first quarter of 2022 brought a historically huge sum of investment for global startups, with the three-month period outclassing any quarter in 2018, 2019, and 2020, according to CB Insights data. But despite the fact that Q1 2022 posted historically elevated results, venture capital investment decelerated from Q4 2021 levels. And it may be that late-stage startups are those under the most fundraising pressure, data indicates.

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.

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Reuse and Recycle Computers for Environmental and Social Impact

TechSoup

Most people are familiar with the phrase "reduce, reuse, recycle," even more so around Earth Day each year. Applying it to the life cycle of computers and other IT equipment can be an important way for all organizations to have a positive impact, regardless of whether their primary focus is on sustainability.

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How to choose an outsourced Digital Product development team, and 7 tips for a successful onboarding!

UruIT

Outsourcing your SaaS project has a lot of up-sides. You can keep costs down, engage top talent, and better scale your digital products. This isn’t to say outsourcing doesn’t come with challenges – it does. However, if you partner with the right firm those challenges can be easily overcome. . Today we’re going to look at SaaS project outsourcing: what it is, how you can onboard a remote team, and what benefits are to be had by outsourcing your SaaS project to South America. .

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Migrating Data to Azure Synapse with Confluent’s Fully Managed Connector to Unlock Real-Time Advanced Analytics

Confluent

Azure Synapse users are looking to unlock access to on-premises, open source, and hybrid cloud systems to extend advanced analytics capabilities for their organizations. Building connectivity between all your distributed […].

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