Wed.Apr 04, 2018

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Adopt The “Spirit Of Agile”—Beyond Software Development

Forrester IT

There are two types of Agile people in the world: Capital “A” Agile people equate “agile” with Agile software development methodologies or frameworks. Agile requires specific roles, processes, and deliverables. You have to do Agile, to be Agile.

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The Evolution of Systems Requires an Evolution of Systems Engineers–the latest from O’Reilly

CTOvision

Systems and site reliability engineers, architects, and application developers must create new strategies to meet industry shifts and their constraints. James Turnbull and Ines Sombra look at the changes in two different but overlapping spheres: changes to technology and changes to methodology in this succinct articulation: The evolution of systems requires an evolution of systems […].

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SCCM CB 1802 Enable Third Party Software Update Support

Anoop

Third party patching is one of the top voted SCCM/ConfigMgr User voice item here. This proves that the 3rd party application patching is the most tedious activity for SCCM admins. SCCM CB 1802 production release has an option to create group policies on the client machine to enable the 3rd party software update/patching. This first steps to […].

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Lessons of Science Fiction Computer Interfaces

CTOvision

Nathan Shedroff and Christopher Noessel co-authored the book "Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction." The book hits on a relationship many of us in the IT world have enjoyed for years, the interconnected nature of science fiction and the innovators who are creating products of today. In the book, Shedroff and Noessel […].

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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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What Can CIOs Learn From How Alibaba Handles Their New Hires?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Alibaba is creating a new training program for some of their employees. Image Credit: Andy Mitchell. If there is one task that we have to do a good job at as the person with the CIO job, it’s bringing new people onboard. Sure, we can do a good job of recruiting and we can land the best and the brightest new talent, but if we don’t do a good job of bringing them in and introducing them to the company than how long do you think that they are going to hang around?

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Getting Real About Smart Cities and Open Data

CTOvision

I have not been following the “smart cities” movement with any regularity. When I first heard the term a couple of years ago I was somewhat skeptical given what appeared to me to be over-hyping by self-interested technology vendors. Also, looking at the trend in Google searches for “smart cities” over the past three years […].

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Frictionless Data: Why Ease and Portability Are More Important Than Ever

Dataconomy

In the field of data, ease of access and portability are becoming increasingly important. Businesses need to utilize data to remain competitive; meaning, they must have quick, real-time access to their data. Now more than ever, accessing this data can mean the difference between competition being one step ahead or. The post Frictionless Data: Why Ease and Portability Are More Important Than Ever appeared first on Dataconomy.

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7 enterprise mobile app trends to watch in 2018

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Summary: The demand for enterprise mobile apps is growing. New trends are emerging that offer significant opportunities to businesses who jump on board. What are these trends and what areas should you watch in 2018? In this article, we explore 7 enterprise mobile app trends you can’t ignore this year. photo credit: FirmBee via pixabay cc There’s a growing gap between mobile usage and enterprise mobile app development over the last few years.

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The Monthly “Digitizing Boardroom” Book Tuning: How to Set Good Policies? Apr. 2018

Future of CIO

Modern corporate boards play significant roles in guiding businesses toward the right direction and achieve expected business results. Due to the “VUCA” characteristics -Complexity, Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and Velocity of the Digital Era, the directorship in any organization must have the agility to adapt to changes and build abilities to advise, inspire and motivate a group of people toward accomplishing shared visions and goals.

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Take the Logical Scenario to Beat Digital Change Curves

Future of CIO

Now with the uncertainty around the volatile market situations, extreme competitions, continuous disruptions, and unprecedented business complexity, digital organizations must be responsive to the increasing speed of changes. Digitalization is a journey, not just a one-time business initiate, riding ahead of the change wave takes both strategy and methodology.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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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Brainstorm Leadership Maturity: How to Shape a Bigger, Wider, and Deeper Thinking Box

Future of CIO

People lead in the different levels. The key differentiator between senior leaders and others is neither about the big title nor the age. To dig into the mindset level, it’s about the size and shape of their “thinking box.” The senior leadership of the organization or the society are like the steering wheel to ensure their ships are moving in the right direction towards the uncharted water and blurred territories.

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The New Book “Digital Maturity” Introduction Chapter 8 From “Doing Digital” to “Being Digital”

Future of CIO

Digitalization is not equal to digital technology. At the high maturity level, organizations have to stretch out in every business dimension for driving the full-fledged digital transformation. Doing digital is perhaps about taking a few actions, but being digital is the fundamental shift from the mindset to behavior. There are a couple of evolutionary stages businesses have to experience in order to ride above the learning curve and move up the business maturity from “Doing Digital,” to “Being