The End of Agile – Part 6 (Alternatives to Agile)

In the first article, I laid out the basic premise for this series: an examination of how Agile has gone from the darling of the application development community to a virtual pariah that nobody wants to be associated with, and an exploration of the very important question of what we should replace it with. We…

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The AI Playbook: Providing Important Reminders to Data Professionals

Eric Siegel’s “The AI Playbook” serves as a crucial guide, offering important insights for data professionals and their internal customers on effectively leveraging AI within business operations. The book, which comes out on February 6th, and its insights are captured in six statements: — Determine the value— Establish a prediction goal— Establish evaluation metrics— Prepare…

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Self-Service Data Access Best Practices

Today’s digital realm increasingly emphasizes the value of self-service data access. Firms are recognizing its potential to empower users and accelerate decision-making processes. However, with this rapid shift towards democratized data access come challenges that organizations need to address. One central conundrum confronts businesses: How can they provide expansive data access while ensuring that information…

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Unique Threat Landscape of Digital Divide

Rural areas worldwide are disconnected in a landscape that nearly requires the internet to work or socially interact. But eventually, the entire planet will have equal, high-speed internet access. Neglecting the digital divide and broadband gap will cause cybersecurity concerns for communities entering the digital era. Regions new to the internet are more vulnerable. Therefore,…

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Raw Data as the Precursor to Everything Data

The world revolves around data. Just about any important decision organizations make depends on the data they have. Data helps organizations mitigate risks, plan marketing campaigns, devise research-backed strategies, and tons more. But a resource this valuable has rather humble, or jumbled, beginnings. What is Raw Data? Raw data is the primary form of data….

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Best Practices for Migrating Applications to the Cloud

It is no secret that cloud migration and transformation helps your business attain desired growth, cost savings, agility, and profitability. With these, your team is able address customer needs faster, monitor app performance, and scale applications according to demand. App migration can be time-consuming, and you cannot afford to mess with the process. And a…

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Collaboration Between Digital & Human Worlds

The role of semantics in connecting logical performance-driven functions with the lexical (linguistic) functions across any interaction between humans and machines through artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have witnessed significant headwinds in recent years. Despite the abundance of historical data or contextual information, AI solution providers have struggled to augment humanistic values into key decision-making processes…

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