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Boost Team Flow with this Adjacent Disciplines Exercise

Accenture

Organizations are now looking past team lunches and formal recognition programs to meaningful, forward-looking incentives. One of the most intriguing and effective activities you can do with your teams to support their growth is to explore adjacent disciplines. The bottom line: your team is only as strong as its weakest link.

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Why knowledge management is foundational to AI success

CIO

Per Gartner’s Solution Path for Knowledge Management , “Products like Stack Overflow for Teams can be integrated with Microsoft Teams or Slack to provide a Q&A forum with a persistent knowledge store. The classic computing rule of “garbage in, garbage out” applies to generative AI, too.

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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO

Looking beyond operations, do leaders and managers have collaboration tools, real-time reporting dashboards, and forecasting machine learning models to aid in decision-making? How often do teams schedule tabletop exercises to play out what-if scenarios? Does your organization have the culture to support software development?

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Quality Assurance outsourcing in the World of DevOps-Best Practices for Dispersed (Distributed) Quality Assurance Team

Trigent

With outsourced QA being expedited through teams distributed across geographies and locations, many aspects that were hitherto guaranteed through co-located teams have now come under a lot of pressure. Best practices for ensuring the effectiveness of distributed QA teams. The challenge is to find the right skill mix.

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Outsourcing QA in the world of DevOps – Best Practices for Dispersed (Distributed) QA teams

Trigent

DevOps is the preferred methodology for software development and release, with collaborating teams oriented towards faster delivery cycles augmented by early feedback. Outlined below some of the best practices for ensuring the effectiveness of distributed QA teams for an efficient DevOps process.

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Future Perspective for Change: Why Backcasting Helps Get You Where You Want to Be

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

When a product team starts work on a product, it’s important that they understand the vision. Over the process of a few hours these activities get the Developers and Customers to a common understanding of what problem they’re attempting to solve. At the start of a project or any time you’re beginning a new initiative.

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What, Exactly, Is Agile Management?

The Agile Manager

Engineers have long had a poor relationship with managers. There are the stories long told of engineers unconstrained by management executing high stakes skunkworks projects, or more modestly using guerilla tactics to sneak unauthorized features into products that delight users. This all seems different in Agile.

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