Sun.Aug 05, 2018

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Why a matrix organisational structure will destroy your company

Evolution4all

The organisational structure is extremely important for the success of any business. In this blog post, I will explore how a matrix organisational structure built in the style of a matrix organisation can harm your company. Before I continue, I want to clarify that there are some businesses that can apply this organisational structure with success—Spotify, for example.

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Backfilling Tests

Professor Beekums

Automated testing is a wonderful thing. Think about it. Why spend hours, or even a few minutes, doing something that takes a computer less than a second. I’ve never regretted writing tests, especially after seeing the time to debug and fix bugs in a subsystem go from hours to minutes. Bug report -> investigation -> code fix -> test -> release, can all be done in under 15 minutes when automated tests are around.

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Why Agile Portfolio Management is needed? 8 spectacular reasons…

Evolution4all

I have recently been talking with several organisation leaders about Why Agile Portfolio Management is crucial. It’s crucial to have a strategy in place to tackle this topic. Fifteen years have passed since I started working in different industries, which has given me a unique perspective on the various angles of different organisations. My first job was as a software engineer.

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Frameworks Are Just Tools. Good Ones Are Instances of Lean

Net Objectives

I was asked if Scrum per the Scrum Guide was an instance of Kanban. The answer is no because of the differences in the mindset. Scrum (per SG) has immutable roles, artifacts, events, and rules. These guide you to actions that fit within them. Kanban has principles you look at to see what to do. There are other differences in the mindsets of Scrum and Kanban. .

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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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Hezbollah’s Armed Resistance

The Cipher Brief

A recent European Union report offers an EU specific look at terrorism faced by member states in 2017. A part of that report focused on terrorist financing, particularly on how money-laundering operations for organized crime groups are partly financing Lebanese Hezbollah’s military wing. . Just before Lebanon’s Parliamentary elections in May, The Cipher Brief asked our experts about Hezbollah’s ties to Iran, Syria, and it’s likely path ahead.

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