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Change Management Communication: How to Tell Your Team.

As mentioned in the previous post, change is a natural part of business, and leaders must be equipped to navigate it and communicate it effectively to their team. Poor communication can lead to confusion, resistance, and ultimately, a failure to implement change successfully. In this post, we’ll discuss the key elements of effective change communication and provide tips for leaders to communicate change effectively to their team. Plan and Prepare:Before communicating the change to your team,...

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Will AI Replace Software Engineers, or Just Reshape the Market?

Artificial intelligence (AI) has long been a buzzword in the technology industry, and its influence is evident across various sectors. According to Grand View Research, the global AI software industry will develop significantly in the next few years, reaching around 1,811 billion US dollars by 2030. The increased need for AI solutions in industries such as healthcare, finance, education, retail, and manufacturing is driving market expansion. We've written about how AI has impacted the...

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Ways to Expand Your Software Development Team: Pros and Cons.

If you run a business that relies on software development, you may need to expand your team. Common reasons to expand your team include: scaling your business, accelerating project timelines, adapting to changing requirements, or reducing employee burnout… Whatever your reason for expanding your team, you're probably looking for a solution that ensures budget, quality, time, collaboration with your existing team, and more. This article will list popular ways to expand your software...

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How We Learned to Build a Continuous Improvement Culture.

The term "continuous improvement" (CI) has become something of a catchphrase in the software industry. Pretty much every organization says it practices CI, but in reality, very few companies take full advantage of it. What is Continuous Improvement?The concept of continuous improvement (or “kaizen”) was developed in the mid-twentieth century in Japan, where it was largely responsible for the miraculous Japanese industrial and economic post-war boom. Some of the tenets of kaizen are: * If...

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The Importance of Change Management in Business: Why It's Essential for Success.

The corporate world is always evolving. In order to remain competitive, businesses need to be flexible and responsive to changes in the market, in technology, and in customer preferences. Otherwise, they will be vulnerable to disruption by start-ups who are more attuned to the current marketplace. It seems like evolution and change would be easy and straightforward, but they most certainly are not. Inertia is a powerful force within a company, and just as in physics, where larger bodies of...

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AI Disruption Is Coming for the Knowledge Economy: Are You Ready?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we live and work, and it has the potential to revolutionize the entire knowledge economy. The development of AI algorithms and systems has been rapid and impactful, leading to the creation of new and more advanced AI systems, such as OpenAI's ChatGPT. ChatGPT stands as an exceptionally advanced AI language model with the capacity to comprehend and produce text resembling human language. It ranks among the most formidable AI systems...

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How to Become a Data-Driven Business with the Dell Data Maturity Model.

With the development of current data storage and processing technology, it is relatively easy and inexpensive for businesses to start owning a data warehouse or building their own reports/dashboards. But to gain value from that data, one must create a close link between business strategy and technology. This requires an investment in the right tools for each stage of the data lifecycle. So what are the right tools? And how does one implement them properly to achieve maximum impact? To answer...

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The Value of PMs: What Makes a Good Product Manager.

In past articles, we’ve discussed the value of Business Analysts and Quality Assurance, but I’ve noticed that we have not yet discussed my own function of Product Management. Being a naturally humble person, I tend to avoid talking about myself, so I’m not surprised it's taken this long. Nevertheless, I’ll attempt to “toot my own horn” in this article as best as I can. DefinitionSo what is a product manager in a tech organization? There are several definitions out there, but the one I like...

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Keeping Promises.

As an entrepreneur, it’s an amazing feeling when your customers tell you that your business is delivering something unique. I recently had this happen and wanted to share the anecdote. I was recently introduced to a potential new customer looking to build a software product for a new business. The contact who introduced us joined us on a call where I described how we typically engage with customers when defining and building a “minimum viable product (MVP)”. I stated that CodeStringers does a...

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Why You Should Start a Business During a Recession.

You can’t watch the news for more than five minutes these days without hearing predictions of a recession, wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, tightening of credit markets, global supply crisis, et cetera. When consumers get wind of these adverse events, they begin a cycle of economic decline: 1. Consumers get nervous, so they spend less, 2. Businesses make less money than they did before, 3. Businesses slow hiring and/or lay off employees, 4. Which makes consumers nervous, so they spend...

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Why Software Projects Fail to Hit Delivery Dates Lately.

Let's face it, the pandemic (and then the AI revolution) changed everything. Now, many businesses are undergoing a major digital transformation in order to adapt to today’s vastly different environment. Unfortunately, however, the keyword in that sentence is “undergoing.” Many of these projects continue to languish under indefinite delays and cost overruns. This is driving CEOs crazy. They can see so much potential for disruption in our new world, but the initiatives aimed at capturing that...

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Empathetic Leadership: Are Leaders Born or Made?

Research on the relationship between leadership and organizational success has shown that a leader's capacity for empathy and compassion has the strongest influence on organizational profitability and productivity. How does empathy relate to your ability to lead? What can you do to improve your leadership skills? In this post, we will define empathy and empathetic leadership and provide advice on how to enhance this skill. What is empathy?The term empathy was first introduced in 1909 by...

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