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Scrumban Should NOT Just Be a Hybrid of Scrum and Kanban

Agile Alliance

Is Scrumban just adding a Kanban board with a few other ornamental changes, or are there deeper issues that need to be addressed? What advantages do you expect to achieve by infusing your current practices with Lean Kanban? Hybrids are problematic at best. Without principles guiding your actions, they create indecision about in which direction … Continued.

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ChargerHelp raises $2.75M to keep EV chargers working

TechCrunch

The coming wave of electric vehicles will require more than thousands of charging stations. In addition to being installed, they also need to work — and today, that isn’t happening. If a station doesn’t send out an error or a driver doesn’t report it, network providers might never know there’s even a problem. Kameale C. Terry, who co-founded ChargerHelp!

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Winning Well: Be the Leader You Want Your Boss to Be (Videos)

Let's Grow Leaders

Winning Well – the art of blending the bottom line with the human spirit Winning Well gives leaders practical tools to achieve breakthrough results that last. After training over 10,000 leaders in fourteen countries in our Winning Well practical leadership tools and […]. The post Winning Well: Be the Leader You Want Your Boss to Be (Videos) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Bunch adds $1M to its seed round to flesh out its leadership learning app

TechCrunch

This morning Bunch announced that it has closed a total of $4.4 million in seed capital, including a new $1 million infusion this week. The company’s product, a mobile app , focuses on teaching leadership skills to the younger generations more accustomed to learning in smaller chunks, often on the go. Don’t roll your eyes, all ye who attended business school.

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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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Stimulus, response, check: The core of test automation

TechBeacon

In a 1970s commercial, a boy asked a wise owl, "How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?" The owl, who was obviously a tester, decided to see how many licks it would take; in a humorous twist, he concluded that the answer was three. But on the third "lick," he crunched down on the pop and ate the candy.

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Best Practices for Digital Experience Management

DevOps.com

The COVID-19 pandemic put digital services in the spotlight. The winners in 2020 and beyond will be those organizations which provide awesome user experiences for online products, services and apps. There is scant room for error, as digital leaders before the pandemic have upped their game even more. For example, streaming service provider Netflix’s 2020 […].

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LIVEKINDLY screams its way to the top of new plant brands with the close of a $335 million round

TechCrunch

LIVEKINDLY Collective , the shouty parent company behind a family of plant-based food brands, has snagged cash from the global impact investing arm of $103 billion investment firm TPG to close its latest round of funding at $335 million. The company’s fundraising shows that investors still have high hopes for plant-based food brands and that despite the money that’s flowed to companies like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods — and the resurgence of older brands in the category li

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Solvo Automatically Crafts Cloud Security Policies

DevOps.com

Solvo today announced general availability of a namesake tool that automatically creates a least-privilege policy and applies it to application workloads deployed in the cloud. Previously available only as a private beta, Solvo will also continually analyze a workload after it’s been deployed to enable IT teams to adjust security policies as additional updates to […].

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Knock is the latest proptech said to be eyeing the public markets

TechCrunch

Another proptech is considering raising capital through the public arena. Knock confirmed Monday that it is considering going public, although CEO Sean Black did not specify whether the company would do so via a traditional IPO, SPAC merger or direct listing. “We are considering all of our options,” Black told TechCrunch. “We pioneered the real estate transaction revolution over five years ago and our priority is to build a war chest to dramatically widen the already cavernous

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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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Monitoring Your Event Streams: Integrating Confluent with Prometheus and Grafana

Confluent

Self-managing a highly scalable distributed system with Apache Kafka® at its core is not an easy feat. That’s why operators prefer tooling such as Confluent Control Center for administering and […].

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Leadership’s Increment: Balancing The Strategic And Tactical

scruminc

Leadership’s Increment: Balancing The Strategic And Tactical. by Matthew Jacobs | March 29, 2021 | Blog. It is not enough for leadership to support a transformation – they have to actively participate. That is a lesson we at Scrum Inc. teach, and one based on years of partnering on successful transformations large and small. . Active participation often means leadership should be “scrumming” themselves.

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Digitizing the IRS Culture, April 1, 2021, 11:00 AM (EST)

Dots and Bridges

The public and private sectors share a symbiotic relationship; one that requires continuous dialogue in order to effect mission enablement, workforce development, and technology optimization. However, well-intentioned efforts to collaborate tend to focus on a buy-sell paradigm versus a seeker-solver opportunity. The Dots and Bridges Thought Leadership Consortium understands, appreciates, and values participatory, transparent, and cooperative discussion.

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How to Communicate Vision To Make It Influential

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Learn how leaders should effectively communicate and share a vision to make it impactful. Today’s post is by Oleg Konovalov, author of THE VISION CODE: How To Create And Execute A Compelling Vision For Your Business (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Communication makes vision visible and attractive to others. It can inspire the visionary’s passion in others or drive people away.

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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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Razor Labs becomes the first AI company on Tel Aviv stock exchange after completing its Initial Public Offering and raising $36 million

DevOps.com

The company leverages AI to make industrial machines smart, offering manufacturers a more cost-effective method of managing their supply chains Tel Aviv, March 2021 – Razor Labs, the leading developer of AI solutions for industrial manufacturing processes, announces the successful completion of its Initial Public Offering, making it the first Artificial Intelligence (AI) company to […].

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Celebrating Women’s History Month 2021 at Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks

Inclusion is a core value at Palo Alto Networks, and this year, in celebration of Women's History Month 2021, we are hearing from employees around the globe about gender equality in the tech and cybersecurity industries – along with some pretty amazing pictures that inspire and amplify the mission of International Women’s Day 2021 (IWD). Earlier this month, I shared a post on IWD on LinkedIn, “ Three ways I continue to #ChoosetoChallenge (and so does my boss!

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Why the Cloud Should Be Part of Every Backup and Disaster Recovery Plan

Arcserve

Let’s say you’re hit with ransomware. You’re concerned, but you feel comfortable knowing that you’ve been taking local backups. You’re confident you can restore a clean backup taken before the infection and get the affected systems back online. No worries. But you start to panic when you realize you made a mistake. As you set.

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The Cloud Security Evolution: From Point Products to Platforms

Lacework

The evolution in cloud security is well underway, as enterprises shift from point products to platforms as the most effective way of securing their cloud workloads and delivering innovation at record speed. This is truly the digital transformation that has been hyped over the past few years, and for those organizations using AWS, GCP, or [.]. Read More.

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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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AoAD2 Practice: Test-Driven Development

James Shore

Second Edition cover. This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Your feedback is appreciated! To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list.

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The Curious Case of the Artist in the Archives

Mills Scofield

What did you do during the pandemic? That seems to be the question now. For Jessica Esch, her insatiable curiosity combined with her serendipitous discovery of oral histories in the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art led to the creation of a new form of art she calls typelooping. Totally – Jessica Esch: Fill in the Blanks, November 2020 ; Source Quote: Oral history interview with Kay WalkingStick, 2011 Dec 14-15.

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Newly-Discovered Vulnerabilities Could Allow for Bypass of Spectre Mitigations in Linux

Symantec

Bugs could allow a malicious user to access data belonging to other users.

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Leading the Future: Her Point of View

TechSoup

Like all modern-day women leaders, I stand on the shoulders of those who came before me. In honor of Women's History Month, I've decided to uplift present-day women-identifying technologists and activists who are moving the needle at the intersection of social impact and technology and who deserve our continued recognition.

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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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5 Tips to Making Data Prep More Efficient in Dataiku

Dataiku

With more use cases to untap, more data science projects in the queue, and more performance metrics to hit, data science teams (and their broader counterparts throughout the business) are under a lot of pressure to decrease the amount of time it takes for them to do things like data prep and maximize productivity. Here, we provide five easy ways that Dataiku users can do just that, in order to ultimately spend more time on the high-value parts of the project.

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Three keys to maximizing value in the cloud

Beyond B2B

Sometimes, you just cannot resist building a piece of technology yourself; not realizing that it will indeed take more time and resources than simply buying it.

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How to Develop A Growth Mindset: 5 Ways to Harness its Strength

Experience to Lead

USA Archery Training and Education Manager Richard “Guy” Krueger specializes in encouraging athletes and coaches alike to be uncomfortable and grow. He shared his insights, tips and stories of leadership. Guy Krueger’s kids sometimes wake up in the middle of the night screaming in pain. The pain is real, but the cause is common. They have growing pains.

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Data Fabrics Need to Coexist with Data Warehouses and Other Database-Centric Technologies

Data Virtualization

Since the dawn of IT, business was in need of one integrated, consistent view of the data coming in from multiple applications, and for a long time, data warehouses have been the preferred choice to solve this problem. Recently, data. The post Data Fabrics Need to Coexist with Data Warehouses and Other Database-Centric Technologies appeared first on Data Virtualization blog.

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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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CodeSOD: A Warning Label

The Daily WTF

An anti-pattern I've seen too many times is using display text to drive logic. For example, I've see things like: void btnClick ( Object sender, EventArgs evt ) { if (((Button)sender).Text.Contains( "Done" )) { … } }. That is, of course, bad on its face, an awful sign of other WTFs which may be lurking, and an instant "nope" Today's anonymous submitter inherited some code from an outsourcing company, and they "gracefully" avoided this anti-pattern. private boo

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Perspectives on agility and adaptability in engineering teams

Gitprime

Adaptability and agility in software development can’t be separated. To do one, you need the other. Get insights on how top engineering leaders are helping their team become flexible.

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Explore the Worlds of Startups and Science with AI Experience Worldwide Speakers Alexis Ohanian and Bill Nye

DataRobot

AI Experience Worldwide , our free virtual conference, is just a few weeks away. Despite the uncertainty and challenges of the past year, DataRobot is seeing the positive impact that AI and machine learning are having on our world as enterprises accelerate their AI adoption. This year’s conference theme is “The Hunt for Transformational Growth.” We’ll be hosting more than 20 sessions that show you how to build an agile, AI-driven enterprise and improve forecasts with actionable results.