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Remote Teams Got You Stressed? Here’s How to Communicate Your Way Out of Conflict

CEO Insider

Despite the many CEOs throwing tantrums over return to office mandates, and the numerous headlines about large companies like JP Morgan Chase demanding full-time office work, the data doesn’t lie. And the data shows that we’ve seen a growth in remote work in recent weeks, according to the latest edition of LinkedIn’s Workforce Confidence Index, […] The post Remote Teams Got You Stressed?

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The next generation of developer productivity

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

To follow up on our previous survey about low-code and no-code tools, we decided to run another short survey about tools specifically for software developers—including, but not limited to, GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT. We’re interested in how “developer enablement” tools of all sorts are changing the workplace. Our survey 1 showed that while these tools increased productivity, they aren’t without their costs.

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The Skills Successful DevOps Pros Need in 2023

DevOps.com

There’s a huge range of knowledge, skills and abilities that DevOps professionals will need to master if they want to thrive in 2023.

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Top 5 Key Considerations for Selecting Your Perfect Technology Platform

Perficient

In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, staying ahead of the curve is crucial, but so is selecting the right platform. If you find yourself overwhelmed by the multitude of options and the complexities involved in the selection process, you’re not alone. To help you make an informed decision and find the ultimate technology platform for your organization, here are the top five factors you need to consider: Prioritize Your Requirements: To ensure seamless alignment with your orga

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The Product Symphony: Orchestrating Success with Storymapping

Speaker: Jamie Bernard - Senior Product Director at Launch by NTT Data

In today’s dynamic business landscape, successful product management hinges on a keen understanding of customer needs and market dynamics. Storymapping emerges as an invaluable pre-investment tool, enabling smarter decision-making, more accurate resource allocation, and enhanced scope control. It serves as a catalyst to better align your entire organization, setting the stage for impactful, customer-centric product management.

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L4S Technology: A New Congestion-Control Solution for Latency 

CableLabs

In a digital world where every second counts, technologies that enable smooth, efficient transmission of data are paramount to ensuring the quality of our online experiences. Reliable connectivity is a must, and the need for it grows exponentially more essential every day, particularly as more applications harness the power of 10G. The 10G platform is a game-changing, multigigabit network made possible by DOCSIS technologies.

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Data contracts and schema enforcement with dbt

Xebia

As data projects and teams grow in complexity and volume, maintaining data integrity becomes increasingly challenging. Making sure changes made in one project don’t affect dependent ones – or even worse, business-critical applications – become even more important. This is where data contracts come into play, providing the tools for ensuring data quality and consistency.

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Unleashing AI in SRE: A New Dawn for Incident Management

DevOps.com

In my recent blog, Revolutionizing the Nine Pillars of SRE with AI-Engineered Tools, I indicated that AI could assist with incident management by automating the detection and triage of incidents and helping to quickly identify the root cause.

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Actions to sustain cost control for scaleups

Martin Fowler

When scaling up, getting costs under control is vital to stabilizing financial health. But as a weight-loss expert might say, the key to long-term health is to do things that promote a sustainable lifestyle. Sofia Tania and Stefania Stefansdottir now move on to begin to describe these initiatives : federated accountability, visibility, and nudges towards better financial discipline.

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An Agile focus on value

Agile Alliance

If you implement Scrum ceremonies, you are technically doing Scrum, but are you embracing an Agile philosophy? Is your team engaged in productive work valued by the stakeholders? What do we mean by productive? We will define productivity in terms of value. Value has a broader definition than just commercial value. It also makes the … Continued The post An Agile focus on value first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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All-Hands Meeting: How to Ensure Yours is Amazing and Worth the Investment

Let's Grow Leaders

Why All-Hands Meetings are so Important (Particularly Now) Now that “You’re muted'” is the catchphrase of the decade, having a great all-hands meeting or remarkable company offsite is a great way to foster human-centered collaboration. Getting your team together for a strategic team event, especially in person, isn’t just about getting everyone on the same page.

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Leveraging Serverless and Generative AI for Image Captioning on GCP

Xebia

Leveraging Serverless and Generative AI for Image Captioning on GCP In today’s age of abundant data, especially visual data, it’s imperative to understand and categorize images efficiently. Whether it’s for enhancing search functionality, assisting differently-abled individuals, or simply summarizing vast galleries, the automation of image captioning is becoming increasingly relevant.

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Bottlenecks of Scaleups Webinar: Sep 7 2023

Martin Fowler

Join Tim Cochran and Rickey Zachery on Thursday, September 7th 1-2pm EST for a webinar on Bottlenecks of Scaleups: Technology mistakes every growing startup makes. They researched Thoughtwork's portfolio to analyze why companies struggle to scale, spanning across Technology, People, and Product. Covering areas such as experimentation culture, overcomplicated architectures, onboarding, developer productivity, product and engineering collaboration, and cost efficiency.

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Reflections on Agile2023: Gratitude and hope

Agile Alliance

Wow! Thank you to all our members, speakers, sponsors, and guests who made Agile2023 another extraordinary Agile conference! The post Reflections on Agile2023: Gratitude and hope first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Value-Driven AI: Applying Lessons Learned from Predictive AI to Generative

Speaker: Data Robot

Enterprise AI maturity has evolved dramatically over the past 5 years. Most enterprises have now experienced their first successes with predictive AI, but the pace and scale of impact have too often been underwhelming. Now generative AI has emerged and captivated the minds and imaginations of leaders and innovators everywhere. Join our DataRobot experts to reflect on lessons learned from helping hundreds of enterprises grow their AI maturity over the past 5 years.

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Hackathons vs Conference: Which One Works The Best for Blockchain Industry?

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

One of the most widely used programming languages in the world, C++ is about 4 decades old. In comparison, Blockchain tech only arrived at the scene sometime in 2008, and is still considered comparatively ‘new’. Developers and companies alike are still learning how to adopt Blockchain. One of the ways to disseminate information about the tech is via industry conferences which help Blockchain developers network with and learn from their peers.

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Reducing costs per contact

Xebia

Lessons Learned From Over 100 Implementations As we have learned in the previous three blogs of this series, from over 100 Freshworks implementations, there are four universal goals: Improved operational control Lower customer contact costs Better customer experience Enhanced employee experience In the previous two blogs, we discussed how to achieve lower customer contact costs.

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Final parts of the cost bottleneck of scaleups

Martin Fowler

Sofia Tania and Stefania Stefansdottir complete their examination of how to overcome the bottleneck that costs impose on a scaleup. In this final installment, they look at how to review and govern the technology portfolio, optimize rates, and provide a general view of cost efficiency initiatives during the life-cycle of a scaleup.

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How to Improve Collaboration to Make Your Good Team Even Stronger

Let's Grow Leaders

Transform Your Teamwork into True Collaboration “Hi, Karin, my team gets along just fine, but I wouldn’t call it TRUE COLLABORATION. What advice do you have to get them to collaborate more? #AskingForaFriend How Can I Improve Collaboration on My Team? True collaboration leads to innovation, improved problem-solving, and efficiency. To harness the power of true collaboration.

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ERP Migration: Why Data Quality Comes First

We are living through a fundamental transformation in the way we work, and the way that organizations function. Automation and machine learning are augmenting human intelligence, tasks, jobs, and changing the systems that organizations need in order not just to compete, but to function effectively and securely in the modern world. These momentous changes raise huge organizational, digital and data challenges – at a time when business leaders are already wrestling with unprecedented risks, disrup

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10 tips for leaders on how to get the most out of working with a recruiter

CEO Insider

In the eyes of many, the recruitment industry is held in fairly low regard, akin to being “white shoe salespeople” or “body shoppers”. In many instances, I would say that this reputation is deserved. Unlike almost any other professional service, the recruitment industry requires no qualifications, no accreditation, there is no barrier to entry – […] The post 10 tips for leaders on how to get the most out of working with a recruiter appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Soft Integration of Generative AI via Browser Extensions

Xebia

TLDR Browser extensions offer a valuable tool to integrate Generative AI into existing processes since they enable rapid prototyping without modifying existing backends. We demonstrate such a soft integration by presenting a Chrome extension that creates multiple-choice questions based on the content of the current webpage. The state of LLM use cases While the usefulness of language models for specialised natural language procession (NLP) tasks has been apparent for a few years already, the emer

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TDD with GitHub Copilot

Martin Fowler

At Thoughtworks, we are strong practitioners of Test Driven Development (TDD). Naturally this leads to the question of how generative AI can help with this technique. Paul Sobocinski writes a brief memo explaining how some of our teams have used TDD with GitHub Copilot. As ever, co-pilot can't be relied on to fly the plane, but can suggest some useful ideas for the red and green steps.

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Leading Yourself with Clarity and Accountability with Marc Lesser

Let's Grow Leaders

Clarity and accountability are key to healthy relationships and effective workplaces. This can look like prioritizing long-term benefits by facing conflicts rather than avoiding them, working with and through difficult emotions with clarity, care, and connection, understanding the stories we live by and evaluating whether they’re serving us, or learning to listen and lead in ways that align with our mission and values.

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The Ultimate Guide to Software Delivery & Engineering Metrics

As DevOps Value Stream Management (VSM) goes mainstream, large and small organizations increasingly recognize the need to apply data analytics to manage the end-to-end software delivery process more effectively – to deliver quality software faster and more predictably. Plandek is a global leader in end-to-end software delivery metrics and analytics, and we work with clients of all sizes and levels of Agile DevOps maturity.

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4 reasons this year’s Google Cloud Next ’23 is a must-attend event

Lacework

Google Cloud Next ’23 is a global conference that brings together developers, decision makers, and other professionals to discuss the latest innovations and advancements in cloud technologies. This year, the conference is being held in person in San Francisco at the Moscone Center from August 29 to 31.

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Customer contact prevention as a competitive advantage

Xebia

Lessons Learned From Over 100 Implementations At Xebia, we have done over 100 Freshdesk, Freshchat and Freshservice implementations since 2014. All these implementations have had their own reasons for companies, such as customer contact prevention. But in the end we have seen that four of these reasons came back almost every time. More grip on the operations Lower costs of customer contact Improved customer experience Improved employee experience The first blog focused on improving operational

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Strategic directions: minimizing risk and being data driven

Martin Fowler

Time for two more strategic directions from Sarah Taraporewalla. These look at the questions that need to be investigated when reducing cost, minimizing operation risk, and enabling data-driven decision making.

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Leadership Communication: How Do I Get Everyone On the Same Page?

Let's Grow Leaders

Practical Ways to Ensure Your Leadership Communication Has a Better and Broader Impact This question came in from a senior leader working to ensure their communication has a broad organization-wide impact: “Hi Karin, We have a lot of moving parts around here. I’m quite sure my senior team is with me. They get it. They understand what we’re doing and why we’re doing it.

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3 Sizzling Ways to Warm up Cold Calls

Even in today’s data-driven sales world, cold calling remains a fact of life for many go-to-market professionals. Fortunately, today’s sales leaders have a crucial advantage over their predecessors: market intelligence and outreach platforms that can warm up virtually any introduction.

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What Is Provisioning? A Simple Guide For 2023

CloudZero

Your IT infrastructure, resources, and components play a crucial role in your system performance, security, and overall health. Provisioning is often one of the very first steps toward setting up the right environment for your workload requirements - both locally and in the cloud.

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Stubbing AWS Service calls in Golang

Xebia

I recently switched to Golang for my language of choice. (In my previous blog you can read why.) But I am also a big fan of test driven development. With Python you have a stubber that helps you mock the AWS API. So how do you do this in Golang? In this blog I will share my experience so far. Use dependency injection My first experiment was with dependency injection.

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Strategic directions to build a strong foundation

Martin Fowler

Any business that wants to grow needs to be built on strong and stable foundations. While these strategic directions are often familiar to technical folks it's important that the improvements to engineering align with the themes that resonate with the rest of the organization. Sarah Taraporewalla illustrates how this appears with two strategic directions that consider improvements in efficiency and quality.