Mon.Apr 29, 2019

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5 Steps of Building Communities of Practice

Evolution4all

Building Communities of Practice. Ideas are what makes the business world go round. Companies spend a lot of time, money, and effort to generate ideas and spread them. In more than two and a half decades, this knowledge sharing framework is becoming a SoP for all companies – the community of practice. It radically enhanced the exchange of knowledge and more importantly, it can be used by any company, from manufacturers to banks, government agencies, small businesses and multinational companies i

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How to Help Managers Communicate Change

Change Starts Here

One of the primary avenues for influencing change is to communicate, communicate, communicate. Unfortunately, communication can’t all come from a centralized, official source to ensure it stays aligned and accurate. You need managers throughout the organization to communicate change to demonstrate its importance and to make it more relevant for their teams.

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Why You Should Have Communities of Practice in Business

Evolution4all

Communities of Practice in Business. Picture this, Employee 1 is having a problem operating a machine. During a break, he joined his teammates. While drinking coffee, Employee 1 casually brought up about the issue he’s been having about the machine he uses. Everybody seems to experience the same problem and they’re all frustrated because they’re spending way too much time fixing the machine rather than doing the real work they ought to do.

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What To Do When “What Were They Thinking?”

Let's Grow Leaders

When you wonder what they were thinking – dig deeper Has this happened to you? You walk by your team and see something different. Not, oh-that’s-cool-different, but “what were they thinking?” different. What do you do? When I was twelve years old, I found […]. The post What To Do When “What Were They Thinking?” appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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Communities of Practice Tools that Your Team Will Love

Evolution4all

Communities of Practice Tools. If you want to exponentially grow the CoPs in your company, you have to make it sure that you have systems and structures in place that would naturally assimilate to the operation of CoPs. Building and maintaining a community of practice and keeping the members actively engaged in conversations and projects is not an easy task, even for the most highly trained thought leaders.

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Community of Practice and Innovation

Evolution4all

Community of Practice and Innovation. Communities of practice have paved the way for the development of a more structured way of learning for many multinational corporations. The term community of practice was first introduced by Wenger and Lave in 1991 to describe learning and sharing of knowledge through building relationships with professionals who follow similar practices and have common interests.

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SREs: The Happiest – and Highest Paid – in the Industry

DevOps.com

According to the 2019 StackOverflow survey completed by 90,000 developers around the world, whether you are already a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) or thinking about becoming one, looks like you are onto something. SREs, also called DevOps specialists, are a pretty unique type of talent; one that has knowledge in both software development and system […].

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On The Future of Tesla and Full Self Driving Cars

CTOvision

Read why Steve Cheney says advances in 3D image processing and image sensors, which are progressing at Moore’s Law-like pace, will make lidar redundant for self-driving cars in 3 years on his blog : Last week when Tesla launched its dedicated autonomy ASIC, a lot of the focus was on this new hardware which allowed […].

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Welcome to a Better Cloud – Introducing Dell Technologies Cloud

Dell EMC

Cloud usage in the enterprise continues to grow rapidly, and with good reason—cloud operating models increase agility, accelerate innovation and help create a competitive edge in today’s world. As the number of cloud solutions has grown, organizations have found it easier to increasingly deploy workloads across multiple clouds. In fact, 93% of organizations are deploying workloads across two or more clouds.[1] Although usage across multiple clouds provides flexibility, it also creates operationa

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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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Help wanted: design literacy for everyone project

Scott Berkun

My next book is about teaching basic design literacy to everyone. The pitch: Everything we use, from social media, to our homes, to our highways, was designed by someone. But how did they decide on what was good for the rest of us? What did they get right and where have they let us down? And what can we learn from the way these experts think that can help us in how we make decisions in our own lives?

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Defying Gravity: Global Partner Summit 2019

Dell EMC

Each year, Global Partner Summit (GPS) is THE event for partners … A time during which we can celebrate our shared successes and look forward to opportunities ahead. This year did not disappoint – in fact, it may be the most energized gathering yet! The GPS general session opened with Marc Martel, the singing voice of Freddie Mercury in the movie Bohemian Rhapsody, and a booming chorus of “We will rock you.

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Your Reference To OODA Special Reports

CTOvision

OODA Loop provides actionable intelligence, analysis, and insight on global security, technology, and business issues. Our free newsletter keeps our readers up to date on a daily basis, and our special reports and advisories provide insights for those that need deeper insights into key markets and topics of executive interest. OODALoop offers additional insights and […].

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Why automating your security testing is mission-critical

TechBeacon

Automated security testing has become fundamental to supporting the speed-to-market requirements of modern application development environments.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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Cisco rolls out Wi-Fi 6 networking stack, bets the standard will enable as much as 5G

CTOvision

Cisco is betting that businesses will make bets on Wi-Fi 6 infrastructure ahead of 5G as both wireless technologies will enable new use cases. While the 5G business transformation story has garnered more headlines, Wi-Fi 6, known as 802.11ax, will also have a big impact, said Greg Dorai, vice president of product management and strategy for […].

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Docker Hub Unauthorized Access Incident: What You Should Know

Aqua Security

A few days ago, Docker discovered that a database holding the credentials of some 190,000 Docker Hub accounts was exposed to unauthorized access (about 5% of all Docker Hub accounts). We’ve been getting questions from customers on this, so I wanted to set the record straight on what we know and what we recommend doing.

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Intel’s Interconnected Future: Combining Chiplets, EMIB, and Foveros

CTOvision

Read Ian Cutress explain how Intel is planning its future strategy with chiplets, EMIB, and Foveros on Anandtech : While Intel works on getting its main manufacturing process technology on track, it is spending just as much time and effort in researching and developing the rest of the chip ecosystem and how it is all […].

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Mirantis Adds Modeling Tool to Configure Private Cloud

DevOps.com

At the Open Infrastructure Summit conference, Mirantis today unfurled a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application through which IT administrators can employ modeling tools to configure private clouds based on either OpenStack or Kubernetes. Boris Renski, chief marketing officer for Mirantis, said rather than having to manually configure a private cloud for an on-premises IT environment using YAML […].

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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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Apple Insider Leaks Exciting New iPhone XR2 Design

CTOvision

Apple’s best iPhone is the iPhone XR because it balances bang for your buck with compromises most users don’t care about. And now, with the iPhone 11 looking like a dog’s breakfast, new information reveals it is actually the iPhone XR2 which is worth getting excited about. Citing supply chain sources, acclaimed Japanese site Macotakara […].

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‘DevOoops’ Moves: Unforeseen Lock-Outs

DevOps.com

DevOps’ ultimate aim is to create efficiencies in the software delivery process. But it doesn’t always work out that way. Sometimes DevOps initiatives lead to mistakes—something we lovingly call “DevOoops.” CloudBees recently polled some colleagues and came up with five examples of a DevOoops in action. Following is a discussion submitted by Carlos Sanchez, principal […].

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Bond Rating Agency Moody’s Warns on Risks of Private Blockchains

CTOvision

Rating agency Moody’s has warned of several risks of private, centralized blockchains in a report for clients examining the pros and cons of the technology for financial firms. Titled “Blockchain Improves Operational Efficiency for Securitizations, Amid New Risks,” the April 25 report describes the basic features and promises of blockchain technology, explaining how businesses like […].

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Event Storming workshops from the other side

Michal Komorowski

Some time ago I gave the presentation about DDD and Event Storming during Girls Do IT 2019 conference. I also had occasion to run workshops on the same topic during Programistok 2018 and facilitated a few Event Storming sessions in the past ( here is one example). So I can say that I have experience with this very nice modeling and business domain exploration technique proposed by Alberto Brandolini.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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Using Adobe Creative Cloud to Make a Flyer at Your Nonprofit: A Beginner's Guide

TechSoup

At some point, your nonprofit has likely faced a scenario in which you needed to make a simple flyer. Maybe it was for a fundraiser, an event like a beach cleanup or clothing drive, or even just your annual holiday party. Regardless of the occasion, this simple design task is among the most common at any organization. And even if you have great tools like those offered through Adobe Creative Cloud, using them correctly can be difficult, especially if you don't have a graphic designer on staff.

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What’s Free at Linux Academy — May 2019

Linux Academy

We support others in their mission to learn and grow and are adding new ways for our students to learn what they need to succeed. By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Each month, we will kick off our community content with a live study group allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.

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The two most common questions companies ask about AI

DXC

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are rapidly evolving to help companies with both digital transformation and innovation. There has been a lot of hype and discussion about these topics but, in a very short time, the conversation has moved from “AI is cool” to “AI can drive specific business outcomes”. The technology has continually […].

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Weekly Update 5-6-2019

Linux Academy

? Last week was all about Kubernetes, and this week is all about Azure. We are delivering five new courses to help you get ready for three different Azure exams and providing you information over multiple Azure services. We are also excited to announce Linux Academy’s next live study group, Command Line Threat Hunting. Come join this live, interactive study group with your fellow students.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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Corporate Training for Your Company | 3 Step Plan

Career Advancement

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”. – Benjamin Franklin. Patrice knew she needed to get serious about succession planning. As the Chief Human Resources Officer at a multi-billion dollar company, she had hundreds of aspiring leaders not prepared for the next level. As part of this plan, she wanted to hire a corporate trainer to help the aspiring leaders by giving them the tools they needed for the next level.

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Mobile Apps Now Open to Community Edition students

Linux Academy

This is something we’ve been wanting to do for a long time and there were a lot of pieces that had to fall into place first, but we’re finally here. Welcome back to the app, Community Edition students! Starting with today’s release (3.0), Community Edition students will be able to log in and use the our mobile apps (download the iOS or Android apps here)!

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3 Agile Product Myths Debunked  

Planbox

Many reasons exist as to why organizations opt to adopt an agile approach. Some hope for more successful products or to increase job satisfaction of team members while others hope for an increase in productivity and/or a reduced time to market. Others choose to adopt agile to improve quality or heighten collaboration between business people and developers, or perhaps some combination of the above benefits. .

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