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MARCH 26, 2024

The workforce is no longer bound to the traditional workplace, requiring you to transform your organization’s ways of working. Here’s how the right Managed Services provider can help ensure successful IT transformation and allow your workforce to perform at their best. Securing endpoints for remote workers The majority of remote workers tend to use their own personal devices to do their work, either on their own initiative or through a Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) policy.

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Xebia

MARCH 26, 2024

In the fast-paced world of design and development, the importance of a robust and cohesive design system cannot be overstated. However, it is often overlooked and built-in fragmented spare time, leading to a Frankenstein Design System that introduces more complexities than solutions. Defining the Design System The first step in our journey was to redefine the concept of a design system.

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Agile Alliance

MARCH 25, 2024

A project manager's transformation into a Scrum master, detailing the challenges, mindset shifts, and growth experienced during the transition to embrace Agile methodologies. The post My successful transition from project manager to Scrum master first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Martin Fowler

MARCH 26, 2024

Mainframe systems continue to run much of the world's computing workload, but it's often difficult to add new features to support growing business needs. Furthermore the architectural challenges that make them slow to enhance also make them hard to replace. To reduce the risk involved, we use an incremental approach to legacy displacement, gradually replacing legacy capabilities with implementations in modern technology.

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Palo Alto Networks

MARCH 27, 2024

{{interview_audio_title}} 00:00 00:00 Volume Slider 10s 10s 10s 10s Seek Slider “AI’s Impact in Cybersecurity” is a blog series based on interviews with a variety of experts at Palo Alto Networks and Unit 42, with roles in AI research, product management, consulting, engineering and more. Our objective is to present different viewpoints and predictions on how artificial intelligence is impacting the current threat landscape, how Palo Alto Networks protects itself and its customers, as well as im

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Tandem

MARCH 26, 2024

The title above is my personal axiom for helping me stay focused on what’s important. Whether the task is work-centric or hobby-related, I repeat this to myself when I’m getting a little too in the weeds — losing sight of what I’m trying to accomplish due to some detail that’s grabbed my attention. You might’ve heard this expressed as, “Perfect is the enemy of Good Enough,” but my favorite version comes from the 1997 movie Wag the Dog.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2024

While CDOs and data leaders are excited about generative AI, they have much work to do to get ready for it. A recent survey of 334 CDOs and data leaders — and a series of interviews with these executives — reveals that companies have not yet created new data strategies or begun to manage their data in the ways necessary to make generative AI work for them.

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CIO

MARCH 27, 2024

“It’s been known since the 1990s that a large-scale quantum computer will be able to break many of the crypto systems we rely on for security,” says Dustin Moody, leader of Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) in Maryland. In 1994, American mathematician Peter Shor developed quantum algorithms to factor integers and solve the discrete logarithm problem.

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Agile Alliance

MARCH 25, 2024

Agile Alliance is pleased to announce our Call for Nominations for Agile Alliance Board of Directors term of 2025-2027. The post Agile Alliance Call for Nominations for the Board of Directors first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Martin Fowler

MARCH 27, 2024

Alessio Ferri and Tom Coggrave start detailing the seams they explored with two areas of external interfaces. Batch input of files are copied to new implementations while comparing the output of the processing pipelines. API access points can be covered with a proxy and traffic gradually directed to the new implementation.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 29, 2024

Episode 250: In this episode, you’ll hear David catching up with Dan Michelson, the author of “Holy Shift: Moving Your Company Forward to the Future of Work.” They tackle how critical trust is among leaders and the pivotal mindset shift needed to adeptly maneuver through the evolving work environment. Dan highlights the key elements like fostering community, opening doors for growth, cementing solid connections, and enriching employee experiences.

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CIO

MARCH 29, 2024

To succeed in the mortgage industry, efficiency and accuracy are paramount. So too is keeping your options open. That’s why Rocket Mortgage has been a vigorous implementor of machine learning and AI technologies — and why CIO Brian Woodring emphasizes a “human in the loop” AI strategy that will not be pinned down to any one generative AI model. The Detroit-headquartered retail mortgage lender has been deploying machine learning and AI for more than a decade and is among the few pioneers that hav

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Agile Alliance

MARCH 25, 2024

The Agile Sustainability Initiative's Digital Cleanup Gathering on March 15, 2024, focused on reducing digital clutter, featuring expert insights and practical tips to encourage digital hygiene and sustainability. The post Reflections on the Digital Cleanup Gathering 2024 first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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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Martin Fowler

MARCH 27, 2024

John Kordyback, a treasured colleague and friend, died last week, aged 64.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2024

Strategic concepts come in and out of fashion as the needs and dynamics of the marketplace change. Research and analysis of today’s landscape identifies six key strategic concepts that set outperforming companies apart: Borrow someone’s road, partner with a third party, reveal your strategy, be good, let the competition go, and adopt small scale attacks.

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CIO

MARCH 25, 2024

Judy Balaban has seen firsthand how stepping into the professional spotlight, even on a small stage, pays dividends. Early in her career as a program management specialist at AT&T, Balaban became an active member with the Project Management Institute’s New Jersey chapter, which put her front and center at plenty of events. She considered her commitments to PMI as a way to give back to her professional community.

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Agile Alliance

MARCH 25, 2024

Agile Alliance New Zealand is a volunteer-led society founded in 2016 to foster Agility across industries and support local Agile communities in adapting to evolving practices. The post Agile Alliance New Zealand: Who we are and where we’re going first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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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Tenable

MARCH 29, 2024

Frequently asked questions about CVE-2024-3094, a supply-chain attack responsible for a backdoor in XZ Utils, a widely used library found in multiple Linux distributions. Background The Tenable Security Response Team has put together this blog to answer Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) regarding CVE-2024-3094, a backdoor in XZ Utils, a widely used compression library found in multiple Linux distributions.

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Dataiku

MARCH 25, 2024

Picture this : You’re scrolling through your favorite social media platform, and you come across a stunning image of a picturesque landscape. Intrigued, you type in a question about the location, expecting a response from a fellow user. But instead, a machine seamlessly identifies the scene and its location, provides a detailed description, and even suggests nearby attractions.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2024

A troubling trend within the tech industry is coming into sharp focus: women are significantly more likely to be actively seeking new employment than their male counterparts. A new study from the tech job search platform Dice reveals that 38% of women in tech are currently engaged in a job search, compared to 30% of men. The primary drivers of this dissatisfaction are a persistent pay gap and workplace culture issues that often leave women feeling marginalized.

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Agile Alliance

MARCH 25, 2024

Join Agile Alliance ion a journey of growth, learning, and innovation by participating in the virtual launch of the Young Professionals Committee on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. The post Agile Alliance Launches Young Professionals Committee first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2024

Employee disengagement is a persistent problem, and attempts to inject excitement often fall flat. However, gamification — using elements of games to motivate — has serious potential when thoughtfully executed. This article explores the psychology behind gamification, successful examples, and how to leverage probabilistic rewards (like lotteries tied to performance) to increase employee motivation.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 27, 2024

There has never been a better time to be a software developer. There is a language and framework to solve virtually any challenges we encounter. New tools, architectural patterns and methodologies like DevOps and Agile have changed how we work, architect our applications and organize ourselves.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2024

Enterprise CIOs have always been at a disadvantage competing with tech firms for skilled IT pros, but accelerated transformation efforts and an AI gold rush have significantly intensified the talent war, prompting CIOs to increasingly turn to outside firms for help. “Collaboration with external partners allows enterprises to enhance their IT prowess, drive innovation, and bridge skill gaps more effectively amid a swiftly evolving digital landscape,” says Arpita Dwivedi, practice director at Ever

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 26, 2024

This report was produced through a collaboration between Him For Her and Crunchbase. Contributors include Gené Teare of Crunchbase and Laura Gluhanich of Him For Her. Lauren Rivera, professor at Kellogg School of Management, co-authored the original 2019 benchmark study upon which subsequent annual research has been based. Executive summary Our fifth annual study, which characterizes the boards of the most heavily funded private companies in the U.S., reveals significant improvement in board div

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2024

The interactive, conversational, analytical, and generative features of GenAI offer support for creativity, problem-solving, and processing and digestion of large bodies of information. Therefore, these features can act as cognitive resources for knowledge workers. Moreover, the capabilities of GenAI can mitigate various hindrances to effective performance that knowledge workers may encounter in their jobs, including time pressure, gaps in knowledge and skills, and negative feelings (such as bor

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MARCH 26, 2024

TL;DR LLMs and other GenAI models can reproduce significant chunks of training data. Specific prompts seem to “unlock” training data. We have many current and future copyright challenges: training may not infringe copyright, but legal doesn’t mean legitimate—we consider the analogy of MegaFace where surveillance models have been trained on photos of minors, for example, without informed consent.

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CIO

MARCH 25, 2024

CFOs want certainty when it comes to spend. And they want to know exactly how much return on investment (ROI) can be expected when IT leaders make technology-related changes. Meanwhile, CIOs want certainty when it comes to funding. Continuous and dependable funding facilitates IT leaders’ ability to deliver leading-edge technology solutions while not increasing technical debt.

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