Sat.Dec 08, 2018 - Fri.Dec 14, 2018

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Use Mob Programming to maximize your learning

Xebia

In every Scrum.org Professional Scrum Development class, we touch upon both technical and collaboration practices to help improve the development teams explore new options. In a recent class, we had two teams that, after two sprints, hadn’t been able to deliver any “Done” increment to show at the Sprint Review. They were plagued by all […].

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Selling the Investment to Pay Down Technical Debt: The Code Christmas Tree

Agile Alliance

The story of a team trying to solve their technical debt problem by making that problem visible.

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Designing for Interaction Modes

A List Apart

We humans have developed ways of coping with digital interfaces. We have tactics. We accept shortcomings. We make do. But why is it still so hard (on most of the internet) to avoid uphill struggles? Often, for example, a quality reading experience is only fully available via a hack, using Safari’s reader view or a browser plug-in. I use Instapaper to send articles to my Kindle—a device that’s devoted to reading mode—because reading is not just about getting the job done.

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6 steps to create a recruiting budget (Template Included)

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

As the new year approaches, most of the organizations, before closing their finances, are looking at managers across teams to collaborate and share the most optimized recruiting budget for the coming year. Here is a 6-step guide to creating the most detailed recruiting budget sheet for your organization. Also attached is a sample sheet for your reference.

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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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Is Gmail’s Confidential Mode a safe bet?

The Parallax

When email goes boom, it’s usually because somebody’s account got hacked, and his dirty laundry has exploded all over the Internet. But Google now offers a feature in Gmail that can help prevent the private contents of your messages from leaking out. It’s called Confidential Mode, and you can think of it as self-destructing email. Confidential Mode, which is available in Web browsers, as well as Gmail apps on iOS and Android, offers several privacy-forward features.

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OKR Guide: Understanding OKRs and How It Benefits Your Business

Luis Goncalves

OKR Guide – Understanding OKRs. Due to the complex nature of organisations, employees often face challenges among the rapid changes they deal with every day. It is often that employees feel demotivated, discouraged and have a lack of purpose just because the company goals are too high-level and abstract. That´s where Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) steps in to help companies with goal setting and implement a solid strategy.

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The Smartest Way to Ensure Your Leadership Message Sticks

Let's Grow Leaders

Taking your management team out of the field for a leadership offsite or kick-off meeting can be an incredible way to provide clarity around your leadership message, to get everyone focused on what matters most, and to encourage the sharing of best practices. […]. The post The Smartest Way to Ensure Your Leadership Message Sticks appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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[2018 Dev vs. Ops Survey] Why is DevOps Culture Creating Chaos in Enterprises?

OverOps

There has long been a divide between development and operations teams. But recently, there has been a movement to break down these metaphorical walls and build bridges of shared accountability between the two functions. With the emergence of roles like DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), we are seeing the introduction of a more collaborative approach to delivering reliable software. 2018 Dev vs.

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Selling the Investment to Pay Down Technical Debt – The Code Christmas Tree

Agile Alliance

Sharing our experience in making code complexity and unit coverage visible in the hallway adjoining our team room and the conversations that happened around it. Not only did it help to focus the team on the high debt areas of the application, but its red (bad) and green (good) coloring combined with its high-foot-traffic location … Continued.

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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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4 Data Security Mistakes Most Businesses Make

The Crazy Programmer

Being competitive in the 21 st century requires a business to stay on the cutting edge of technology. For years, companies all over the world have used customer data to make important decisions about the direction they should take. The main thing you need to be concerned with when collecting and storing data is keeping it out of the hands of cyber-criminals.

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Scaling Scrum to the limit

Xebia

You’re likely to have been asked the question: “we need to go faster, how many more people do we need?” Most people naturally understand that just adding a random number of people isn’t likely to make us any faster in the short run. So how do you scale Scrum to the limit? And what are […]. The post Scaling Scrum to the limit appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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How to Work with an Indecisive Boss

Let's Grow Leaders

One of the biggest “do you have a private minute” questions we get asked by managers is “how do I get anything done with my indecisive boss?” Okay, the conversation is actually less polite. It’s usually more along the lines of: “Aghhhhh, […]. The post How to Work with an Indecisive Boss appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Sprint Backlog

Agile Alliance

A sprint backlog is the subset of product backlog that a team targets to deliver during a sprint to accomplish the sprint goal and progress toward an outcome.

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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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Innovative Tools You Should Consider for Your Business

The Crazy Programmer

We’re living in a golden age of innovation. Every day, more and more products are introduced to the market that can help streamline and improve your business’ workflow. The internet is loaded with resources that can help you and your team communicate better, share information with each other, and improve your visibility with prospective clients. However, the sheer size of the internet can make it difficult to weed out good products from the bad.

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UI Prototyping Tools

NeverFriday

In this post I wanted to look at some UI (User Interface) prototyping tools. These are tools that are extremely important for individual web developers and for large teams of developers. For a solo developer, the prototype user interface shows what an app (whether it’s a desktop or web or mobile app) should look like. For a large team, it defines a vision that everyone can align around.

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Physical and Digital tools for Scrum Masters and their teams

Xebia

About 40 people gathered at the nlScrum meetup dedicated to physical and digital tools for the agile workspace. Tools that help developers, coaches and trainers to survive in the toughest environments. We broke the evening up into a hybrid between an Open Space and your local Farmers’ market with people displaying their wares and the […].

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5 Ways Artificial Intelligence Can Improve Your Business Right Now

OTS Solutions

5 Ways Artificial Intelligence Can Improve Your Business Right Now. Have you thought about artificial intelligence? The technology has evolved a lot since its early depictions in movies and television shows. Rather than being fiction, AI is now real and has the potential to transform practically every business. For the most part, AI gives you an advantage in the marketplace by helping you reduce your operating costs while improving productivity and quality.

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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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How to Properly Conduct OKR Evaluation to Keep Your Team Aligned

Luis Goncalves

How to Conduct OKR Evaluation to Keep Your Team Aligned. OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) is a recent leadership base that helps organisations set, communicate, and measure their goals. The main goal of OKRs is for every member in the organisation understand the objectives of the company through a set of specific and measurable goals. When the OKRs are set, it´s necessary to evaluate them at least two weeks before the quarter ends.

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[2018 Dev vs. Ops Survey] Why is DevOps Culture Creating Chaos in Enterprises?

OverOps

There has long been a divide between development and operations teams. But recently, there has been a movement to break down these metaphorical walls and build bridges of shared accountability between the two functions. With the emergence of roles like DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), we are seeing the introduction of a more collaborative approach to delivering reliable software. 2018 Dev vs.

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After another massive Google+ data breach, you should probably delete your profile right now

CTOvision

Google+ may be a punchline in the social network world, but there’s something seriously wrong with it. For the second time in as many months, Google has announced that Google+ has been hit with another data leak, and this one is way worse than the last. According to a blog post, some 52.5 million users are […].

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The Principles of Design and Their Importance

Toptal

Good design is possible without understanding the principles of design. But it may take a lot of trial and error to create something that both looks good and creates an optimal user experience.

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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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OKR Approach: A Fantastic Goal Setting Framework

Luis Goncalves

OKR approach as a goal setting framework. Objectives and Key Results , known as OKR, is a recent leadership foundation that helps organisations set, communicate, and measure their goals. The primary function of OKR is to connect an employee´s personal objectives with the team and the company in a hierarchical way. How the OKR works in short? Your team will work together in a defined direction which is shaped by measurable factors.

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Revolutionize Software Delivery with DevOps and AWS

DevOps.com

Technology is constantly evolving—every time we think we’ve got a complete hand-holding experience on some technological aspect, there emerges a better innovation. When the DevOps solution emerged, organizations were more than happy to incorporate its principles. But somewhere down the line, there came DevSecOps. Innovation is an upward curve that doesn’t see a decline but […].

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California imposes new regulations on ‘internet of things’ devices

CTOvision

As people shop for loved ones this holiday season, internet-enabled gadgets are often at the top of the list. These gifts may be an automated vacuum cleaner, a doorbell with a camera or a Furbacca, a toy that combines Furby and Chewbacca and interacts with a smart device. These contraptions—collectively referred to as the “internet […].

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Customers and Partners Help Dell EMC Storage Finish Strong in 2018

Dell EMC

As 2018 comes to an end, we can all look back on it as a very successful year for Dell EMC Storage. It’s been a year jam-packed with new innovations, products, industry accolades and recognitions, and based on recent IDC Worldwide Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker data – now three quarters of share gain in a row. To achieve all of this, we came together throughout the year to execute as a unified company and bring outstanding products to market for our customers in support of their IT Tra

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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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How to Get Consulting Clients – An Interview with Steve Blank

Toptal

Consultants often struggle to find new, solid clients. We asked Steve Blank, the founder of the Lean Startup movement (and someone who has helped hundreds of companies get a better product to market faster and worked with dozens of consultants along the way) how consultants can attract clients. Steve's advice is a bit counter-intuitive. But it's something that Toptal's best consultants have already been doing for years.

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The Value of ‘DevOps Engineer’ as a Title

DevOps.com

Now that DevOps is proliferating in the enterprise (many companies including Disney, Nike and Walmart, for example, are all on the adoption train) the term is starting to creep up more and more in job titles. This is challenging organizations to consider the significance of DevOps Engineer as a role and the value of having […]. The post The Value of ‘DevOps Engineer’ as a Title appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Why are we still at risk from email hacking?

CTOvision

Email remains the main communication tool for businesses. If an email account is hacked it can allow the attacker access to the personal, sensitive, or confidential information in the mail storage; as well as allowing them to read new incoming and outgoing email and to send and receive as the legitimate owner. With advances in medicine […].

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