Strategy For Directors: Tying It Together
- Anna Shipman tl;dr: “Strategy is often set by the person with the loudest voice. One of the aims of this course was to teach techniques and models to allow robust discussion, surface ideas and allow everyone to be heard.” Anna discusses steps to do this: (1) Strategic analysis: Make a diagnosis of your current situation, external and internal. (2) Strategic choice: make a decision about what you want to do. (3) Implement.featured in #532
What is Fingerprint Browsing And How Does It Work?
- Evelyn Chea tl;dr: Cookies are great, but they aren’t reliable. That's where browser fingerprinting comes in. Visitor identification captures details like browser type, operating system, and screen resolution using advanced techniques like canvas and WebGL fingerprinting to create a unique digital fingerprint for each visitor. It goes beyond traditional cookies, offering enhanced security, fraud detection, and personalized user experiences.featured in #532
Leadership For Results And Peace Of Mind
- Subbu Allamaraju tl;dr: “After years of testing various ideas and behaviors, I developed a leadership framework that has proven effective in achieving results, enjoying work, and maintaining peace of mind. While there’s no one-size-fits-all leadership recipe, I’m eager to share a few key behaviors that have helped me and could benefit you.”featured in #532
Leadership For Results And Peace Of Mind
- Subbu Allamaraju tl;dr: “After years of testing various ideas and behaviors, I developed a leadership framework that has proven effective in achieving results, enjoying work, and maintaining peace of mind. While there’s no one-size-fits-all leadership recipe, I’m eager to share a few key behaviors that have helped me and could benefit you.”featured in #531
Strategy For Directors: Models
- Anna Shipman tl;dr: Anna presents PESTLE and VUCA frameworks for tackling issues subject to external influences and unpredictability. “The value is in bringing the issues into the open and discussing them, as much as the end result. People are often making unconscious assumptions about the future, or the current situation, and these models help surface them.”featured in #531
Why Build When You Can Deploy Speech AI Instantly
- Kelsey Foster tl;dr: Not sure whether to build or buy an AI speech recognition system? Our comprehensive guide breaks down the key considerations, from accuracy and internal resources to speed of iteration and data security.featured in #531
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Standups: Individual → Teammate
- Kent Beck tl;dr: Kent discusses his reasoning behind standups. “Treating standup meetings as a technical solution to a technical problem — we need to communicate this many bits of information to this many people as efficiently as possible — misses the real point. We’re people. With needs. The better those needs are met, the better we can meet the needs of others.”featured in #530
Drata Secured 86% Faster QA Cycles
tl;dr: QA Wolf is delivering QA at DrataSpeed: (1) Regression testing is 90 minutes faster than before, and includes 4x more test cases. (2) Quickly onboarded and gave Drata’s QA resources space to work on new features, saving more than $500,000/year. (3) Went from overnight deploys to multiple times daily.featured in #530
Numbers To Know For Managing (Software Teams)
tl;dr: “Based on philosophy, experience, and analysis; we hope they’ll be of some use.” The authors cover topics such as: (1) Minimum number of direct reports anyone should ever have. (2) Minimum number of candidates you should interview before making a decision. (3) Number of days before a new hire should have merged a pull request, (4) Number of days before a small support issue becomes a large support issue. And more.featured in #529