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People

The Real Reason Why People Should Worry About Remote Work

As the world recovers post-COVID (and a chain of other natural hazards and human madness) and we try to bring back a semblance of the ‘usual’ way of doing things, there has been much debate whether we should go back to the office or continue with remote work instead. In this ongoing debate, the real unspeakable truth remains unsaid. Remote Work is Simply Work. Distributed work. In office work. Field work. Customer interfacing work. Clinic work. XYZ work. If work, as it was before, was so great … For the majority of folks … Then … 1. Job First Before Credibility, At…

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Ocwen Becomes A Cloud-First Company By Adopting Chrome OS

Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Parveen Chander Aery, CIO, and Rishi Gupta, Head of Global IT Infrastructure, of Ocwen, a provider of residential and commercial mortgage loan services. The U.S.-based company adopted Chrome OS devices to help global contact center teams work productively together. We’re used to deployments of new technology taking a lot of time and worry. In the past, there wasn’t a fast and easy way to roll out thousands of devices, apps and operating systems to a company of several thousand people. But in March 2020, when we had to help 3,500+ employees shift safely to remote…

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Making Extreme Programming Work For Remote Teams

I am a software engineer and have been working on extreme programming (XP) teams since 2015. Currently, I work within VMware Tanzu Labs, which has a long history of practicing XP and teaching it to clients. The COVID-19 pandemic is massively affecting how teams practice XP by forcing practitioners to operate in a remote-first world, usually from home. And many teams won’t return to full-time in-person work when the pandemic ends. While this creates new challenges, teams can still do effective XP by adapting their processes to better accommodate remote teams. What is extreme programming? If you’re not familiar with XP,…

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In An Era Of Remote Work And Data Security Awareness, ABN AMRO Chooses CloudReady And Chrome OS

Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Markus Hap, CTO for APAC, and Joost van Doorn, Deputy CTO for APAC and Head of Technology Office, both for ABN AMRO, the Dutch financial services company. ABN AMRO’s Asia-Pacific region team, based in Singapore, is using Chrome OS and CloudReady to work securely in the cloud, reduce total cost of ownership, and add flexibility for employees. Financial services organizations have to be exceptionally careful when bringing in new technology, especially when it helps our employees work in the cloud. There’s the safety of our customer data to consider, as well as safeguarding our…

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10 Tips For Maintaining A DevOps Mindset For Distributed Teams

You can do DevOps while working from home; it’s all about the right approach. I am one of the agents of chaos who passionately argued the importance of removing barriers and recognizing that people are the core of a healthy DevOps mindset. Fast-forward to the COVID-19 pandemic, in which collocated teams were forced to disperse overnight into self-isolating distributed entities, relying on technology to bring us all back together in a virtual world. As I write this, it is day 56 of self-isolation, and I am working remotely from home. Everyone is reflecting and mulling over tons of questions, such as:…

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DevOps

Create a DevOps Culture With Open Source Principles

Now that more workforces are remote, DevOps teams can maximize their collaboration and productivity by following open source principles. As this article goes online, DevOps teams are rounding the bend of eight months of remote work. Some teams were remote by design. Other teams had remote work forced on them. Now is an excellent time to take a refresher on what it means to be a high performing DevOps team that just works remotely. Remember that people come before tools for a remote DevOps team. Here’s how you keep your people operating and feeling refreshed during these times. Fully…

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Global Organizations Choose VMware Digital Workspace Solutions To Enable A Remote Everything, Future-Ready Workforce

While companies, governments and organizations are slowly returning to the office, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the future of work forever. A remote-everything, work-from-anywhere environment is now the new normal. That’s why VMware, Inc. today introduced new and expanded capabilities to empower customers, help improve business resilience, and prepare for the new distributed, hybrid workforce of the future. These capabilities include a suite of new workplace solutions and new features in VMware Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub built specifically to help customers bring employees back to the office safely. VMware is also introducing enhancements to its flagship virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) platform,…

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Tech

Zoom Is Now Worth More Than The World’s 7 Biggest Airlines

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many people have transitioned to working—and socializing—from home. If these trends become the new normal, certain companies may be in for a big payoff. Popular video conferencing company, Zoom Communications, is a prime example of an organization benefiting from this transition. Today’s graphic, inspired by Lennart Dobravsky at Lufthansa Innovation Hub, is a dramatic look at how much Zoom’s valuation has shot up during this unusual period in history. The Zoom Boom, in Perspective As of May 15, 2020, Zoom’s market capitalization has skyrocketed to $48.8 billion, despite posting revenues of only $623 million over the past year.…

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Better Than Zoom: Try These Free Software Tools For Staying In Touch

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an enormous amount of changes in how people work, play, and communicate. By now, many of us have settled into the routine of using remote communication or videoconferencing tools to keep in touch with our friends and family. In the last few weeks we’ve also seen a number of lists and guides aiming to get people set up with the “right” tools for communicating in hard times, but in almost every case, these articles recommend that people make a difficult compromise: trading their freedom in order to communicate with the people they care about and…

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