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Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar industry

TechCrunch

Allison Xu is an investor at Bain Capital Ventures, where she focuses on investments in the fintech and property tech sectors. As one of the least-digitized sectors of our economy, construction is ripe for technology disruption. A construction tech boom. Technology startups are emerging to help solve these problems.

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Building Future-Ready Tech Teams

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The ever-increasing skills gap is the bane of IT leaders who aim to build future-ready tech teams. Flexible, scalable, and innovative teams are the future of tech. The sooner companies throw traditional practices out of the window the better. Hough, Founder of Airblock Technologies . – Brian H. Soft skills.

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4 ways upskilling and reskilling can fill hard-to-hire positions

CIO

Looking for existing staff with transferable skills, hidden skills, technical learnability, and hidden knowledge can bring these potential employees into focus. Within IT, this could mean finding workers to do programing, testing, cybersecurity, operations, project management, or other similar tasks.

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10 digital transformation roadblocks — and 5 tips for overcoming them

CIO

In today’s fast-paced business world, companies are striving to harness the power of digital technologies to reinvent their operations, enhance customer experiences, drive innovation, and thereby create value for stakeholders. But the hard truth is that many digital initiatives fail to deliver results.

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Agile vs Scrum: Differences & Similarities?—?The Complete Review [2020]

Codegiant

The Complete Review [2020] From the desk of a brilliant weirdo #1 : If you are using Scrum it’s safe to say that you are also using Agile. When it comes to Agile project management, managers here don’t tell the team what they should be working on. After that, improvements are made for future projects.

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How To Find and Hire an Offshore Software Development Team in 2023

Mobilunity

Competition for tech talents seems to be the next global challenge after Covid. A founder or a project manager hires an agile offshore development team and gets functional control over it. Forbes also names technical implementation among the top 3 success factors for a tech startup.

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Fundamentals of Data Engineering

Xebia

The following is a review of the book Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis and Matt Housley, published by O’Reilly in June of 2022, and some takeaway lessons. The authors state that the target audience is technical people and, second, business people who work with technical people. Nevertheless, I strongly agree.