Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

From Counting to Quality: Help Your Busy Team Work Smarter Last week, we talked about meaningful metrics , focusing on the game, not the score, and identifying and isolating the daily habits most likely to lead to success. But doing those habits without the right focus on outcomes can become a box-checking exercise.

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Newgen Software

JANUARY 2, 2024

Just as machinery and robots replaced human blue- collar workers in manufacturing, robotic process automation (RPA) system has made it possible to replace humans with bots in white-collar tasks. RPA system is very effective when used in a well-defined set of tasks that are executed at scale. Enterprises are replete with such tasks.

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Tandem

JULY 26, 2023

Organizations must continuously adapt and prepare for potential disruptions and system failures. A blame-free culture also encourages open communication and transparency, facilitating faster problem resolution and improving overall system stability.

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Planbox

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s important to note that, while avatars can offer a mask during an innovation event , every idea should be credited back to its real-world genius, melding innovative thinking with due recognition. Rethinking Systems Avatars, each representing different workplace goals, can dive into existing processes, reimagining them creatively.

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Palo Alto Networks

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

How can organizations ensure that, even while handling the consequences of a cybersecurity incident, customers are satisfied, business objectives are met, critical systems are available and sensitive data is protected? This is where cyber resilience comes into play. Stress Test Crown Jewels. Practice Alternative Service Delivery.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

The resulting system could be the biggest improvement to stroke therapy in decades or more. It’s been shown in other contexts that this type of stimulation can produce improved neuroplasticity — the capability of the central nervous system to reprogram itself.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Affirm got a COVID-19 boost as well, with not only e-commerce spend growing — Affirm provides point-of-sale loans to consumers during online shopping — but also because Peloton took off, and lots of folks chose to finance their new exercise bike with the payment service. Next up: Growth metric. Call it a double-boost.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Is your team doing what you asked, but they’re focused on counting the metrics, and how busy they are as opposed to the quality metrics of how well they’re accomplishing those tasks? The reader was reading the section on meaningful metrics, and we talk about focusing on the game, not the score. Yep, check.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

We invest in firewalls, two-factor authentication systems, and lots and lots of training for everyone in the company. I think that we all realize that cyberattacks have increased during the pandemic as a rush by businesses to digitize services and provide their employees with remote access has made their systems more vulnerable.

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Openxcell

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

An enterprise application security is about implementing a complete set of measures to protect a company’s software, systems, and networks from potential cyber threats. Also, the importance of regular updates and patch management protocols cannot be overstated when it comes to ensuring system resilience and mitigating vulnerabilities.

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Sunflower Lab

MARCH 29, 2024

Support Ticketing System for BOBST BOBST , a prominent machinery industry company, recognized the need for an efficient support ticketing system to streamline their machine maintenance services. Solution Sunflower Lab devised a comprehensive solution by integrating a recommendation engine into Bobst’s ticketing system.

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Accenture

APRIL 10, 2019

Many organizations have seen significant improvements in critical metrics such as time to market, quality, and productivity as a result of implementing microservices. To achieve high quality, exercise “technical excellence” when developing software: unit testing, TDD, BDD, etc. Not adjusting testing approaches.

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Capgemini

MARCH 19, 2023

The operational risk The reduced settlement cycle brings a multitude of benefits, but the consensus among experts is that operational risk is the area which will suffer if not given the due attention. Don’t be tempted to treat this is an exercise to add headcount and ignore wider issues. Automating faltering processes rarely works.

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Planbox

MAY 10, 2022

Launching an innovation management system does not have to be guesswork, and it is a lot easier than most organizations imagine it to be. Question 1: How can we build a system if we have not settled on an innovation management process? . Focus on tracking and reporting the right metrics.

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Xebia

AUGUST 9, 2023

With the industry moving towards end-to-end ML teams to enable them to implement MLOPs practices, it is paramount to look past the model and view the entire system around your machine learning model. The classic article on Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems explains how small the model is compared to the system it operates in.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

JANUARY 26, 2024

Some risks may be acceptable to your business, and a threat modeling exercise can help your company identify what your acceptable risk appetite is. Understand the security posture of your AI, ML, and generative AI workloads by performing a Well-Architected Framework review.

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Perficient

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It comes in the form of a guide that will save you at least 2 times of cumulative effort, due to avoiding hidden traps and unobvious issues on your way to a shiny upgraded solution. End-to-end testing – to confirm system works under real-life conditions and scenarios. Watch the metrics for anomalies.

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O'Reilly Media - Data

DECEMBER 12, 2019

2] , [3] , [4] Current model assessment techniques, like cross-validation or receiver operator characteristic (ROC) and lift curves, simply don’t tell us about all the nasty things that can happen when ML models are deployed as part of large, complex, public-facing IT systems. [5]. We’ll review methods for debugging below.

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CTOvision

JULY 21, 2015

The Defense Science Board Report of January 2013 on the resilience of DoD systems to cyber attack. Read on for more about what the DSB reported as the threat to military systems. It is also available at: Resilient Military Systems and the Advanced Cyber Threat. Here are more details: .

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OverOps

MARCH 17, 2020

It also provides “Test Coverage” reports that describe the degree to which the code has been exercised. Static code analysis is great for providing an automated pair of eyes for code review to detect bad coding practices and security issues, but it doesn’t address what happens when code actually executes.

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Apiumhub

JUNE 17, 2020

To support this evolution, fitness functions can help in finding how well a system meets specified architecture goals and constraints in an automated way. All collected fitness functions should describe their intent using an objective metric meaningful to teams and stakeholders. What is Architectural Fitness function?

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Trigent

MARCH 8, 2021

Due care needs to be exercised to know if their recommendations are grounded in delivery experience. The Puppet report further mentions that companies at a high level of DevOps maturity use ticketing systems 16% more than what is used by companies at the lower end of the maturity scale.

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DataRobot

JANUARY 18, 2022

In “ Winning With AI ” in the MIT Sloan Management Review , the authors report that when IT specialists lead AI projects they have half the success rate of projects where business line specialists lead AI projects. Describing an AI System. Describe the business goal and the metric used to measure business success. Conclusion.

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iTexico

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Issues can be exacerbated if they are not identified timely and an expensive exercise would be carried out to fix the damage. As much it is appreciated to follow important testing structures along with quality metrics, it is also endorsed to think out of the box. Review, Revise and Remember. Promote Innovation.

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Trigent

APRIL 7, 2022

By adhering to some basic rules, services and applications can be deployed onto serverless systems. Of course, this is a significantly simplified explanation, and the systems are way more complicated. If things failed, it was NOT due to provisioning and capacity. This completely eliminates dedicated servers or containers.

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Tenable

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Employees are suddenly connecting to core business systems and applications using their own previously untested — and potentially vulnerable — consumer routers and home networks. We have visibility into all of the systems, data and processes required to deliver on a business continuity and disaster recovery plan.

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d2iq

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

As little as 5% of the code of production machine learning systems is the model itself. 2015): Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems. The model itself (purple) accounts for as little as 5% of the code of a machine learning system. This in turn means the recommendations deteriorate over time due to a lack of signals.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 29, 2018

I was reviewing an Agile project plan recently created by someone unskilled in Agile and saw one of these. It had to do with the metrics they recommend to measure the Agile team’s output. A mindset is like other systems, in this case–a thinking system.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The World’s Smallest Online Bookstore team has just come out of their Sprint Review. For those who’re keeping score, the team committed to a Sprint Goal: Have basic reader review system in place so book buyers can see a variety of opinions about a book. By Sprint Review time they’d completed five of the seven.

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Kentik

JULY 24, 2019

While that’s certainly an apt description for the insights we can extract from data, most organizations today are finding that new data repositories and “data lakes” often don’t provide the expected benefits due to the analytics challenge. These systems generally consume more structured, event-based data from other monitoring systems.

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RapidValue

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

So an AI-enabled solution could review the current status of test, recent code changes, code coverage, and other metrics, and decide which tests to run. However the AI-bases system need to be skilled enough to know what sections of the code require stubbing or mocking in order to separate them. Test.ai: Test.ai

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Netflix Tech

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

To prepare ourselves for a big change in the tech stack of our endpoint, we decided to track metrics around the time taken to respond to queries. After some consultation with our backend teams, we determined the most effective way to group these metrics were by UI screen. ecosystem and the rich selection of npm packages available.

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Trigent

MARCH 25, 2022

Gartner believes in the transformative potential of TX, touting it as the means for organizations to outperform competitors by 25% in satisfaction metrics for both CX and EX by 2024. The rationale behind this whole exercise was to improve safety and satisfaction. Several companies are using a similar model due to the pandemic.

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The Citus Data

OCTOBER 1, 2021

This allows for faster crash recovery on systems with many database files. We review new PostgreSQL features. After code review, unit tests and E2E tests, the next step in rolling out a new major PostgreSQL version is deployments. Making Citus & other extensions compatible with PostgreSQL 14.

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James Shore

MAY 28, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. You’ve tested your code and exercised your deployment scripts. Your monitoring system should alert you if a deployment fails. For systems with a lot of production servers, you can also have multiple waves of canary servers. Your feedback is appreciated!

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QAspire

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Family, health, relationships, independence, being able to reinvent the self, learn at the speed of change, being grateful and willing to help/enable others and having humility to receive gracefully from others are all forms of wealth that we often sacrifice for visible metrics of wealth and power. Health is a system you cannot hack.

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Linux Academy

MAY 28, 2019

Splunk (Deep Dive) – As one of the early log aggregation products in the IT industry, Splunk has remained a popular choice among system administrators, engineers, and developers for operational analytics. Our exploration will serve both as a setup exercise as well as a detailed configuration guide. Then this course is for you.

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