Mon.Jan 22, 2018

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Hidden inside Dark Caracal’s espionage apps: Old tech

The Parallax

An aggressive malware campaign called Dark Caracal allegedly stole “hundreds of gigabytes of data” from thousands of military personnel, lawyers, activists, finance and medical professionals, and journalists across more than 21 countries, including the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Russia, and South Korea, according to a report published Thursday.

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Four Advantages of Leveraging a Cross-Functional Team

Career Advancement

“Entrepreneurs as ‘soloists’ will be replaced by orchestras playing a stronger, more credible tune.” ~Steve Case~. Tamara felt her department was too isolated from the rest of the organization. As she stepped into a higher-level managerial position, she talked with her mentor about how to change this situation. Her mentor advised her to develop a cross-functional team of people who worked together in close communication.

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How to find your WHY

Lead on Purpose

A key focus of this blog—from its beginning—has been purpose. Leading on purpose, working with purpose; doing things intentionally, doing things for the right reason. Though topics have led in various directions, the core focus has been purpose.

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Starting Out - What works, how fast, and why?

Ron Jeffries

There's a lot of noise going on on the Twitter just now, about starting with Scrum, with kanban, or with nothing. Here are some thoughts.

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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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Holland Casino: Working Smarter Using a Governance-based Approach

Sailpoint

Holland Casino is a government-owned gaming and entertainment provider in the Netherlands that has over 4,600 employees and contractors. They operate over 14 casinos, and needed an end-to-end identity governance solution to automatically and securely deliver access to their workforce. Holland Casino’s identity journey began in 2010 when an identity coordinator was tasked with developing a process for tracking employees and their access to systems.

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Holland Casino: Working Smarter Using a Governance-based Approach

Sailpoint

Holland Casino is a government-owned gaming and entertainment provider in the Netherlands that has over 4,600 employees and contractors. They operate over 14 casinos, and needed an end-to-end identity governance solution to automatically and securely deliver access to their workforce. Holland Casino’s identity journey began in 2010 when an identity coordinator was tasked with developing a process for tracking employees and their access to systems.

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Dealing with Payroll for Small Business Owners

Strategy Driven

Payroll is one of those essential tasks that small businesses must undertake, but it can be a confusing and time-consuming process. The basic principle is straightforward enough – calculate the gross monthly earnings of your employees, then subtract deductions to arrive at a net figure. Inevitably it isn’t as simple as it sounds, and you need to be aware of every detail and produce 100% accurate net figures.

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Official Intelligence

LeanEssays

Every morning I pick up a small black remote, push a button and quietly say, “Alexa, turn on Mary’s Desk.” In the distance, I hear “Ok” and my desk lights come on. I never imagined that I would use voice control. I don’t like shouting at devices and don’t like announcing what I’m doing to those around me. My experience with voice in cars and smartphones has been mediocre.

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5 Practical Ways to Increase Staff Productivity

Strategy Driven

Every business owner’s dream is to have a team of staff that are highly productive, as this contributes to their success as a business. The reality, however, is that people don’t tend to run on one hundred percent productivity one hundred percent of the time. Luckily, you can still reach a level of productivity that meets your standard if you put a few measures in place.

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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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The Push and Pull of Software Delivery: The Case for Kanban

CollabNet VersionOne

It’s no secret that software is king in every industry today, and it’s more challenging now than ever for organizations to keep up with customer demands. Whether it’s mobile apps, the GPS system in a car or having the ability to buy products with the click of a button, customers are demanding more, quicker and better. And, what is the key to success for any business?

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Being Conscious About Our Unconscious Biases

QAspire

I attended a very interesting workshop a few weeks ago on the topic of “Unconscious Bias” facilitated by Smita Tharoor. I was interested in this topic because I explored the intersection of critical thinking and leadership a few years ago. This was a good opportunity to get back to the topic and add to my understanding. What is Unconscious Bias. The term ‘cognitive bias’ was coined by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman in 1972 which quite simply means “our tendency to filter information, process f