Why is Story Slicing Meaningful?

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In January, I wrote a little bit about how to do a better job slicing up stories. In my experience, there is always a healthy amount of debate around what size a story should be. Should we make this a 3 or a 5, a 5 or an 8? Inevitably we have to revisit the question of what a point even means. Are w…READ MORE

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Being a Technical Advocate / Evangelist

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Back when I started working for technology vendors, the landscape was much different than it is today:

Vendors tended to focus on a specific technology area; hence their portfolio was primarily made up of various sizes and price-points of the same technology (e.g. security, database, storage, n…READ MORE

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Modern Requirements Management Tool – Modern Requirements4TFS

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I can build multiple use cases to depict the importance of Modern Requirements Management Tool – build on and for Microsoft Team Foundation Server. But before talking about Modern Requirements4TFS, let us understand what the biggest threat to the success of a project is. It is the business or user…READ MORE

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CrowdStrike unveils Meltdown exploit in unusual fashion

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SAN FRANCISCO – CrowdStrike displayed a flare for the dramatic at RSA Conference Wednesday during the company’s “Oscars” event, where it unveiled a new Meltdown exploit.

The cybersecurity vendor unveiled the exploit, dubbed “MeltiKatz,” during the company’s 2018 Hacking Exposed Oscars. The con…READ MORE

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Veeam and Pure Storage team up on data protection, production

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Four months after the release of Veeam’s Universal Storage API, Veeam and Pure Storage have teamed up to streamline data protection and storage, and speed recovery.

The integration — initiated through the API — between the Veeam Availability Platform and the Pure Storage FlashArray allows joint…READ MORE

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God Mode Causes Win10 Office URL Insert Fail

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God Mode is a nickname for a special folder in Windows. God Mode is not built into Windows, and requires some modest effort to create. For instructions about this, see my 2008 blog post right here at WED. But once created,  God Mode offers immediate access to 200+ tools otherwise accessible only…READ MORE

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Is AI ethics enough of a niche for the UK’s economic strategy?

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The House of Lords report on AI and UK economy and society came out this week, with the guardedly bullish title: “AI in the UK: ready, willing and able?” The question mark is moot.

I think a strong case can be reasonably made that the government has been using AI as a fig leaf to cover the ec…READ MORE

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Growth mindset lets Microsoft love Linux

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Timed to coincide with the RSA security conference, Microsoft has announced Azure Sphere, a new solution for creating highly-secured, Internet-connected microcontroller devices. But there’s a bit more to it than that. Enabled by the company’s newly found ‘growth mindset’, Microsoft engineers can hap…READ MORE

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Red Hat goes big on interoperability-ness

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Red Hat changes its tagline from time to time, but this year the firm appears to happy being labelled as ‘the world’s leading provider of open source solutions’ — perhaps, with Microsoft and so many others picking up the flame, Red Hat feels it need to state its aim with such simplicity.

Brandin…READ MORE

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SheHacks hackathon at BU promotes female tech advancement

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For 36 hours during the last weekend in January, more than 1,000 attended one of the largest women’s hackathons ever at SheHacks Boston.

SheHacks Boston organizer Natalie Pienkowska said that the event was a way to counter the “ridiculous” amount of inequality that remains in the modern workplace…READ MORE

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The role of IoT and data analytics in equipment wellness

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The rise of the internet of things across industries has been huge over the last few years, and it’s only growing. IDC research finds that worldwide spending on IoT is forecast to reach $772.5 billion in 2018; a 15% increase over IoT spend in 2017. Led by manufacturing, transportation, and logistics…READ MORE

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martech (marketing technology)

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Martech is the area of customer relationship management (CRM) that is concerned with using digital tools to automate tasks and help marketers make data-driven decisions. Continued…

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“Everyone should have a good idea of their CRM capabilities, their automation system and where t…READ MORE

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Positive Reinvention

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It’s a truism that IT essentially reinvents itself every decade or so.

In some ways this can be rightly seen as a cynical way to repackage the same old tosh and sell it again to confused.com IT departments afraid of having an unsupported IT implementation. But it does also spawn benefits, not l…READ MORE

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Why Windrush scandal demonstrates the importance of technology to political decision-making

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The Windrush scandal has revealed many disturbing things about government policy that have nothing to do with IT. But the issues raised amply demonstrate the importance of technology considerations in driving 21st century political decision-making.

Tony Smith, the interim director general of the …READ MORE

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Twilio’s developer-first approach to programmable cellular communications

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Cloud communications software company Twilio has announced Twilio Programmable Wireless.

This is programmable cellular communications software that offers APIs to power web-connected Internet of Things (IoT) products.

To be clear, Twilio is making the cellular connectivity element itself progr…READ MORE

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Huawei’s industry vision offers glimpse into its priorities

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At Huawei’s annual analyst summit in Shenzhen this week, the Chinese technology giant unveiled its predictions about what the future holds from a technology perspective in its Global Industry Vision (GIV) 2025 report.

The crystal-ball-gazing exercise involved the use of its own “unique resear…READ MORE

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Code reviews and Iron Scripter

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Many organisations use code reviews to help ensure a quality outcome. At the recent PowerShell Summit we ran a scripting competition – Iron Scripter. I’ve had a thought on how code reviews and Iron Scripter have something in common. Something that could lead to a better code review.

Iron Scri…READ MORE

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Applying AI: Accenture exec cites customer opportunities

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The task of applying AI, digital thread and augmented reality to here-and-now business challenges is much on the mind of Mike Sutcliff, group chief executive at Accenture Digital. Sutcliff discussed those technologies with SearchITChannel in a recent email interview. Here are some excerpts from that…READ MORE

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Facebook's Private Setting No Shield in Forman Case

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If you’ve been revealing secrets on Facebook and thinking that you’re okay because your messages and postings are private, not public, think again: a recent court case ruled that attorneys could rule to more easily discover private as well as public Facebook material.

The case is Forman vs. H…READ MORE

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When it comes to mobile spectrum, it's time for Three to get over itself

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I was hugely pleased today to see that despite the possibility of another legal roadblock in the Court of Appeal, telecoms regulator Ofcom is going to move ahead and lay the groundwork for the long-delayed auction of two massive slices of radio spectrum, one to support enhanced 4G mobile networks, a…READ MORE

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