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The Agile Mindset: A Path to Personal Fulfillment and Growth

In 2016, Professor Julian Birkinshaw, a distinguished expert in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the London Business School, acknowledged that we had entered the Agile age. The Agile management revolution, which took off in software development in 2001, has now become a force of transformation spreading across organizations worldwide. What began as a methodology centered on software development has developed into a broader mindset, reshaping the future of work. The agile mindset is a robust thought process comprising adaptability, collaboration, learning and flexibility to achieve higher results. With an agile mindset, individuals can navigate the challenges of life with purpose and resilience,…

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What To Expect From CES 2023

From brighter TVs and weirder wearables to laptops of all shapes and sizes, here are the biggest trends we’re looking out for at CES. CES is almost here. You can already see it if you look around: announcements about new display tech, news posts filled with spec details, and lots of strange gadgets suddenly popping up out of nowhere. The Consumer Electronics Show is the starting point for the year in tech — a week of nonstop announcements that sets the stage for the year’s emerging trends and technologies. You can expect to see the biggest TVs of the year,…

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3 Open Source Tools For People With Learning Difficulties

The ability to customize applications is one of the great strengths of open source. Disabilities significantly impact people’s lives. As someone with dyspraxia and dyslexia, I can tell you that is true. One thing that mitigates my difficulties is the technology I use, such as a screen-reader and task manager. I’ve set up an ecosystem of sorts that helps me manage a variety of difficulties that I believe could be useful to you whether or not you have dyspraxia or dyslexia. If you love good software and want to improve how you work, then maybe my workflow will be helpful to you, too.…

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Knitting Helps You Understand Programming Patterns

Knitting as Programming or how I learned programmers owe it all to fiber As part of my bootcamp, I was asked to present for 10 minutes on any topic. I’ve been crocheting since 2013 and knitting since 2018, and I had noticed some similarities between the way I approached a project in either fiber arts or programming. What I did not expect to find was a rich history of fiber arts and programming influencing each other. The Beginning of the Relationship Between Fiber and Programming Fiber arts, like knitting, are crafts using yarn, string, thread, etc. This encompasses thousands of…

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Open Source Tools For Running A Small Business In 2022

These articles show the power of open source in business as tools, platforms, or integration points. This year, Opensource.com ran several great articles focusing on open source in business. These articles show the power of open source in business as tools, platforms, or integration points. Let’s review some of the top open source business stories from 2021: My favorite open source project management tools If you’ve managed projects in an office environment, the odds are you’ve probably used Microsoft Project to track tasks and assignments. However, the open source community has created many options for tracking projects. For your project…

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10 Common Behavioral Mistakes Novice Programmers Make

The mistakes of novice programmers, those who are just learning or just starting to work, are very similar to each other. Many of them can be called not mistakes, but behavioral features, stages all beginners go through. We as Java course creators are interested in this topic, so we interviewed opinion leaders and collected the most common, in their view, examples of such behavioral errors in order to … shorten their duration for future software developers. If you start noticing such behavioral mistakes early and try to fix them, your path to mastery will be shorter and your work will…

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You’ll Be Breaking Up With Bad Customers — And 9 Other Predictions For 2022 and Beyond

Synthetic data, NFTs, composable business and agile development — and customer breakups — are among the top strategic predictions for 2022 and beyond. It’s time to break up with your bad customers. Organizations often try to keep customers at any cost — even when they aren’t a perfect fit. But trying to cater your product for the wrong audience is costly, emotionally and financially. Mounting frustrations will prompt organizations to acknowledge that it’s OK to say goodbye, making this move one of the top Gartner predictions for this year. “Gartner’s top strategic predictions continue to offer a provocative look at…

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29 Must-Know Cybersecurity Statistics For 2020

The damage related to cybercrime is projected to hit $6 trillion annually by 2021, according to Cybersecurity Ventures. To give you a better view of the current state of overall security, we’ve collected 29 vital statistics about data breaches, hacking, industry-specific statistics, as well as spending and costs. The Big Five Worldwide spending on cybersecurity is going to reach $133.7 billion in 2022. (Gartner) 68% of business leaders feel their cybersecurity risks are increasing. Data breaches exposed 4.1 billion records in the first half of 2019. (RiskBased) 71% of breaches were financially motivated and 25% were motivated by espionage. (Verizon) 52% of breaches…

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17 Ways Technology Could Change The World By 2025

We asked our 2020 intake of Technology Pioneers for their views on how technology will change the world in the next five years. From quantum computers and 5G in action to managing cancer chronically, here are their predictions for our near-term future. 1. AI-optimized manufacturing Paper and pencil tracking, luck, significant global travel and opaque supply chains are part of today’s status quo, resulting in large amounts of wasted energy, materials and time. Accelerated in part by the long-term shutdown of international and regional travel by COVID-19, companies that design and build products will rapidly adopt cloud-based technologies to aggregate, intelligently…

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The Big Impact Of Big Data On Businesses Today

The business impact companies are making with big data analytics is driving investment in digital transformation across the board. Faced with multiple waves of disruption in a COVID-19 world, almost 92% of companies are reporting plans to spend the same or more on data/AI projects, according to a recent survey from NewVantage Partners. Small wonder. Data mature companies are citing business-critical benefits from using big data, including: Informed decision-making Cost reduction Better understanding of customers New product development Data monetization Offensive drivers such as new competitive advantages, innovation, and transformation override defensive ones as change is becoming the only market constant nowadays. Let’s explore…

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