Fri.Apr 24, 2020

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What Happens to Managers in Scrum? – Episode 1 of ScrumCast

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What Happens to Managers in Scrum? . by Tom Bullock , Dave Slaten , Avi Schneier | April 23, 2020 | Blog. This post is part of our new ScrumCast series of conversations with thought leaders who have successfully helped transform organizations and empower teams and individuals. Each episode will explore organizational Agility and Scrum patterns, tactics, and techniques that drive real-world success.

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6 Things To Do To Kick-Off Your Agile Transformation

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by McCaul Baggett | April 24, 2020 | Blog. Agile transformations are complicated. Success has huge benefits, but success is not guaranteed. Boosts in productivity, innovation, and higher quality products or services your customers will love can make the challenge of transforming an organization well worth the effort. As with any undertaking, making the right preparations before you begin will dramatically improve the outcome. .

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Getting Started with Microsoft Teams

TechSoup

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, many nonprofits are working overtime to serve their communities, while also reinventing their operating systems in order to adhere to social distancing guidance. If your nonprofit has had to very quickly adjust to working from home, then this time is likely to be stressful and scary for you, too.

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10 Ways to Manage Energy and Avoid Leadership Burnout

Let's Grow Leaders

Feeling tired, burned out, or listless? You might just need a good night’s sleep – or you may need to make some changes to how you manage your energy as a leader. In this episode, you’ll get ten ways to manage […]. The post 10 Ways to Manage Energy and Avoid Leadership Burnout appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Feeling tired, burned out, or listless?

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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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3 Ways DevOps Can Increase the Value of Organizational Data

DevOps.com

There’s a reason the term “data mining” came into existence. Enterprises sit on a vast resource of information—millions of digital gems that, if fully extracted, can not only answer many of their toughest questions, but also help them meet their most ambitious organizational goals. DevOps professionals have a unique opportunity to impact this mining process. […].

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GigaSpaces Embraces Kubernetes Alternative for DataOps

DevOps.com

GigaSpaces has added a DataOps framework to its in-memory computing platform that provides an alternative to Kubernetes by employing Nomad software from HashiCorp as a scheduler. Yoav Einav, vice president of product for GigaSpaces, said many enterprise IT organizations aren’t in a position to adopt Kubernetes, yet they still need a means to embrace best […].

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Fix these problems or they'll drive up your cloud service costs

TechBeacon

The last decade saw a transformational move to public cloud infrastructures for most large enterprises, and today many companies run their critical business processes and applications on a mix of cloud infrastructures and supporting services.

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6 Common Pitfalls to Avoid While Building Out Your AI Tools

DevOps.com

Enterprise-level companies, with thousands of employees across the globe, can have their AI framework replicated by B2B companies of nearly any size. In fact, even without access to a ton of proprietary data and immense computational power, you can build out effective AI tools. To begin with, you can introduce publicly available datasets from movie […].

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Bias and Noise in ML: 2 Sides of the Same Coin

Dataiku

This post was written by our friends at Insight Data Science. Insight specializes in leveling up the skills of top-tier scientists, engineers, and data professionals, and connects them with companies hiring for roles in data science, engineering, and machine learning to build and scale their tech teams. Their unique approach and rigorous admissions process exposes teams to more highly-qualified talent, saving their partner companies on both the time and cost of hiring.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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IBM Boosts Security and Productivity with Red Hat OpenShift 4.3 on IBM Cloud

DevOps.com

As more businesses journey to the cloud, they need ways to easily deploy and manage their critical workloads securely across public clouds, private clouds, and on-premises environments. This is particularly crucial when faced with the ongoing demands to support remote workforces. The IBM public cloud has been rebuilt on a foundation of open source innovation, […].

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Scrum Framework – Artifacts that Matter

SCRUMstudy

What are artifacts? Well if we roughly translate the Latin roots of the word, it translates to “Work of Art”. Artifacts can be understood as something that we create. It could be something like a tool that can be used to solve a problem. In the context of Scrum, we work with three fundamental artifacts necessary to deliver a Scrum project effectively.

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Put The ‘Q’ Within Your DevOps

Trigent

The 2016 Tricentis Software Fail Watch report estimated worldwide software failure costs to be USD 1.1 Trillion. A 2018 study by the Consortium for IT Software Quality maintained that for the US alone, the cost of defective software was USD 2.84 Trillion. These relative costs of fixing errors post a software release is unarguably higher than if they were uncovered during the design phase.

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What You Need to Know About the Cyberspace Solarium Commission Report Recommendations

Tenable

Last month, the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission provided recommendations to help prepare for major cyberattacks on our critical infrastructure and economic system. Here are our thoughts. In March, the Cyberspace Solarium Commission released its final report , outlining substantive recommendations for a cyber strategy designed to help prepare the U.S. for major cyberattacks on our national critical infrastructure and economic system.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Docker and CI/CD tutorial: a deep dive into containers

CircleCI

This is a follow-up to a previous post that I wrote after CircleCI 2.0 was released. This release implemented build support using Docker executors. After the release, we realized that one of the biggest barriers that CircleCI users encountered was a lack of experience with Docker. This was confirmed through my conversations with numerous developers, in the community and at events, about their use of container technologies in their continuous integration pipelines.

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APIs drive digital business

Beyond B2B

Do you remember the old cable TV channel guide? The one using a scroll-down, near monochrome, tabular listing of current available series, sporting events and new-release movies?

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Book Review: Doing Agile Right – So It Doesn’t Die On The Vine

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Book Review: Doing Agile Right - So It Doesn't Die On The Vine. by JJ Sutherland) | April 24th, 2020 | Blog. I called up a friend of mine the other night. He’s in the C-suite of a big bank. Really big. I mainly called him so we could share with each other our sheer amazement at the jaw-dropping, world-changing, lethality, and fear we are all going through right now. .

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3 tech strategies emerge as vital for transit industry transformation

DXC

Last fall, while attending the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) annual conference – and then earlier this year at APTA’s Business Member Board of Governors Meeting – I had the opportunity to interact with some of our leading GMs, CEOs, and CIOs to discuss how they were managing everything from public opinion and funding to […].

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Outsourcing Software Development Checklist to Ensure Success

RapidValue

For ISVs and enterprises across the globe, having a trusted software development partner has become extremely critical in this ever evolving business landscape. It helps you to adopt new technologies quickly and also expedite your product roadmap. However, selecting the right development partner to outsource software development could be very tricky.

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Keeping Perspective Amid Trying Times

CEO Insider

Have you lost a job? Are you fearful of losing a job? Have you been asked to take a pay cut? If so, my heart goes out to you. I can only imagine the uncertainty and stress that you likely feel. But, if you are reading this, I imagine that you want to do more […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article Keeping Perspective Amid Trying Times are those of the author Ryan Gottfredson, PhD. alone and not the CEOWORLD magazine.

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ORGANIC agility: The handbook is now here!

Agile42

For most readers of this blog, there will be nothing new about the words “ORGANIC agility”. Put simply, ORGANIC agility decenters the mechanical approach that sees organizations as machines built of discrete parts but sees them instead as living networks of relationships between people. Their growth, their culture, and their ability to adapt are all related to this sense of potential and responsiveness that can be found in natural, evolving systems.

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Automatic Email — Jenkins Results in HMTL Table

Dzone - DevOps

We often have a requirement to send all consolidated test results of nightly runs (with more than one job configured for test executions) to the team in an easily readable email. This document outlines the process of achieving the same with a groovy script that used markup language to implement HMTL styles and Extended E-mail Notification plugin to automatically send email notifications.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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IBM Research – Confidentiality and Governance of Cloud Services?

DevOps.com

Our team has spent months developing, tuning and perfecting a complex deep neural network to classify important financial, medical or government data. The application has been containerized, packaged, and is finally ready to deploy as a public service on the cloud, but one thing stands in the way. How do you get assurance that your […]. The post IBM Research – Confidentiality and Governance of Cloud Services?

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3 Myths About Security in the Cloud

Palo Alto Networks

“We must not be hampered by yesterday’s myths in concentrating on today’s needs.” . – Harold S. Ganeen, former president of ITT, U.S. business leader and IT pioneer . In every field and in every age, there are myths that develop over time. Some are instructive while others are destructive. There are many myths about security in the cloud. I cannot think of one more pervasive than “public cloud is more secure than an on-premises data center.

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Tuesday Lunch-and-Learn (Livestream)

James Shore

24 Apr 2020. James Shore/Calendar. I’m pleased to announce the launch of my new weekly livestream, Tuesday Lunch & Learn! Every week, this fast-paced and focused livestream investigates one technical skill for software developers. I present a challenge, provide a mental framework for solving it, and then code a solution live on stream. Each session includes source code, so you can follow along, and opportunities for discussion and Q&A.

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Look, Up in the Cloud! It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Planbox DevOps!

Planbox

Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood day folks! Listen up! Today is a day we recognize a different set of heroes that protect us from a different set of viruses, in other words, the kinds of viruses that lie in the deep, dark underbelly of the deep, dark web. That’s right, I’m talking about… MALWARE! GASP! But you need not fear, because Planbox has the best-in-class DevOps SUPERHEROES making sure our cloud software, along with our clients’ data and privacy, remain highly prot

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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How to Set Up Your Own Wi-Fi Hotspot

CableLabs

Working from home doesn’t necessarily mean you have to work inside your home – even under COVID-19 restrictions, you can head out into your back yard and get the job done with sunshine and fresh air benefits. But if your home Wi-Fi network is an annoying mama’s boy that doesn’t want to leave the house and work for you outside, don’t despair. Just pick up your smartphone and set up a mobile hotspot.

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It’s All About the API: Finding Common Ground

Dell EMC

Common ground for storage I discovered the goodness of API’s (Application Programming Interfaces) when I was working on a project with an IT industry colleague named Les. An API is what we used then to extend a wide area network testing platform across many different interfaces and protocols. Fast forward 20 years and API’s are virtually everywhere.

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Four short links: 24 April 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The Suddenly Remote Playbook — I just want to note that if you have to look after kids when you’re supposed to be working, you’re not working from home. Not everyone’s getting a glorious introduction to the delights of working from home. taichi — a programming language designed for high-performance computer graphics. It is deeply embedded in Python, and its just-in-time compiler offloads compute-intensive tasks to multi-core CPUs and massively parallel GPUs.

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