Evangelization on the importance of having a culture of continuous learning: first a bit of theory on learning, practices around the culture of learning, then examples of concrete initiatives to support that
One of the key tenets of agility is that we are always learning. But how does that fit in if we're always working too? How do we bake in continuous learning without breaking the bank?
Too often learning is treated as a nice to have or even a luxury.
And when we do get to attend training, it usually happens in isolation, making it difficult to apply. The words 'I've learnt that you're doing it wrong' seldom go down well with our teams!
This session looks at a practice based approach to incorporating expert-led knowledge and team expertise in continuous learning into your normal routine.
Coaching and mentoring can inspire and empower people, build commitment, increase productivity, grow talent, and promote success. They are essential elements of modern managerial practice. However, many organizations still have not established related schemes. By not doing so, they also fail to capitalize on the experience and knowledge that seasoned personnel can pass on.
One of the key tenets of agility is that we are always learning. But how does that fit in if we're always working too? How do we bake in continuous learning without breaking the bank?
Too often learning is treated as a nice to have or even a luxury.
And when we do get to attend training, it usually happens in isolation, making it difficult to apply. The words 'I've learnt that you're doing it wrong' seldom go down well with our teams!
This session looks at a practice based approach to incorporating expert-led knowledge and team expertise in continuous learning into your normal routine.
Coaching and mentoring can inspire and empower people, build commitment, increase productivity, grow talent, and promote success. They are essential elements of modern managerial practice. However, many organizations still have not established related schemes. By not doing so, they also fail to capitalize on the experience and knowledge that seasoned personnel can pass on.
In a turbulent environment, managers and leaders need to constantly adjust, cooperate and anticipate future changes. This presentation, given as part of PÖL Digital free meetup sessions, is an introduction to leadership agility as well as the Agile Profile®. Agile Profile is a management tool and a methodology to measure the level of agility of an organization, and identify how management behaviors and culture can be changed to better meet the demande of the environment.
Fostering Continuous Learning - Tips and Tricks
Why is continuous learning important? What fosters a learning culture? What specific things can I do in my organization to encourage continuously learning at the personal and group levels?
These questions and more will guide us through this session where we will discuss specific ways to create continuous learning in your organization.
Project Retrospectives are an important part of any software development process. The Principles Behind the Agile Manifesto state that, "At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly." How can this be done? By taking the time to reflect and learn and proactively determine what should be done differently in the next iteration, release, or project. Linda's presentation will introduce techniques for project retrospectives, whether they are agile or not. The techniques help teams discover what they’re doing well so that successful practices can continue and identify what should be done differently to improve performance. Retrospectives are not finger pointing or blaming sessions, but rather a highly effective process in which teams reflect on the past to become more productive in the future. Linda will share her experiences with leading retrospectives of several kinds for dozens of projects—successful and unsuccessful, small and large, in academia and industry. Her lessons learned can be applied to any project to enable teams and organizations to become learning organizations.
As a leader, you spend a lot of your time making sure that your team is working well together. Here are the secrets that every manager should know to make your team successful.
Subscribe to our free 11-day email course on HOW TO BE A BETTER LEADER:
http://officevi.be/29Sx4bK
Read more on employee engagement on Officevibe blog:
https://www.officevibe.com/blog
Hello,
This presentation is a little step to share some information on "Teamwork" with you.
If this help you a little, I will be happy. Feel free to share your opinion.
Thank you.
*All the information and images are collected from internet.
CHANGETHIS True Team Building: More Than a Recreational RetreatBernard Moon
Presentation by Kevin Eikenberry. Discusses the CARB Model (Commitment, Alignment, Relationships, Behaviors). Created February 2006.
"ChangeThis is a vehicle, not a publisher. We make it easy for big ideas to spread. It is supported by the love and tender care of 800-CEO-READ."
Building Better Teams - Overcoming the 5 DysfunctionsJoel Wenger
Trust, Conflict, Commitment, Accountability, Results; these are the hallmarks of effective teams, as described by Patrick Lencioni in his book "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team". This presentation contains an overview of each one, as well as my take on the tools and actions leaders can take to address each one.
" United we lead and Divided we fall...". This presentation teaches you the basic essence of Team Building, why it is Important and how can we make a strong and effective Team.
Breakfast Buzz session June 2019: Building high performing teams.
In today's high-pace and diverse workplace, cohesive and effective teamwork provides organizations the ultimate competitive advantage. We all know that effective teamwork makes for a more fun and effective work environment, but how do we get there?
Bolstered by high levels of caffeine and purpose, his interactive session builds on Patrick Lencioni's The Five Behaviors of Cohesive Teams. We will present and discuss a simple roadmap and practical advice on how to improve organizational results by building truly cohesive and effective team in your business:
Learn how to build trust with individuals and teams
Learn benefits of healthy conflict
Learn how to help people fully commit to team goals and decisions
Learn how team members can hold each other accountable
Learn how to get the team to focus on important organizational results and make good decisions
In a turbulent environment, managers and leaders need to constantly adjust, cooperate and anticipate future changes. This presentation, given as part of PÖL Digital free meetup sessions, is an introduction to leadership agility as well as the Agile Profile®. Agile Profile is a management tool and a methodology to measure the level of agility of an organization, and identify how management behaviors and culture can be changed to better meet the demande of the environment.
Fostering Continuous Learning - Tips and Tricks
Why is continuous learning important? What fosters a learning culture? What specific things can I do in my organization to encourage continuously learning at the personal and group levels?
These questions and more will guide us through this session where we will discuss specific ways to create continuous learning in your organization.
Project Retrospectives are an important part of any software development process. The Principles Behind the Agile Manifesto state that, "At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly." How can this be done? By taking the time to reflect and learn and proactively determine what should be done differently in the next iteration, release, or project. Linda's presentation will introduce techniques for project retrospectives, whether they are agile or not. The techniques help teams discover what they’re doing well so that successful practices can continue and identify what should be done differently to improve performance. Retrospectives are not finger pointing or blaming sessions, but rather a highly effective process in which teams reflect on the past to become more productive in the future. Linda will share her experiences with leading retrospectives of several kinds for dozens of projects—successful and unsuccessful, small and large, in academia and industry. Her lessons learned can be applied to any project to enable teams and organizations to become learning organizations.
As a leader, you spend a lot of your time making sure that your team is working well together. Here are the secrets that every manager should know to make your team successful.
Subscribe to our free 11-day email course on HOW TO BE A BETTER LEADER:
http://officevi.be/29Sx4bK
Read more on employee engagement on Officevibe blog:
https://www.officevibe.com/blog
Hello,
This presentation is a little step to share some information on "Teamwork" with you.
If this help you a little, I will be happy. Feel free to share your opinion.
Thank you.
*All the information and images are collected from internet.
CHANGETHIS True Team Building: More Than a Recreational RetreatBernard Moon
Presentation by Kevin Eikenberry. Discusses the CARB Model (Commitment, Alignment, Relationships, Behaviors). Created February 2006.
"ChangeThis is a vehicle, not a publisher. We make it easy for big ideas to spread. It is supported by the love and tender care of 800-CEO-READ."
Building Better Teams - Overcoming the 5 DysfunctionsJoel Wenger
Trust, Conflict, Commitment, Accountability, Results; these are the hallmarks of effective teams, as described by Patrick Lencioni in his book "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team". This presentation contains an overview of each one, as well as my take on the tools and actions leaders can take to address each one.
" United we lead and Divided we fall...". This presentation teaches you the basic essence of Team Building, why it is Important and how can we make a strong and effective Team.
Breakfast Buzz session June 2019: Building high performing teams.
In today's high-pace and diverse workplace, cohesive and effective teamwork provides organizations the ultimate competitive advantage. We all know that effective teamwork makes for a more fun and effective work environment, but how do we get there?
Bolstered by high levels of caffeine and purpose, his interactive session builds on Patrick Lencioni's The Five Behaviors of Cohesive Teams. We will present and discuss a simple roadmap and practical advice on how to improve organizational results by building truly cohesive and effective team in your business:
Learn how to build trust with individuals and teams
Learn benefits of healthy conflict
Learn how to help people fully commit to team goals and decisions
Learn how team members can hold each other accountable
Learn how to get the team to focus on important organizational results and make good decisions
This is an extract of the first Engineering Meeting at Dashlane organized by Frederic Rivain, VP Engineering. As a support to the blog post related to On-Boarding on Dashlane blog.
The first thing that strikes about education is knowledge gain. Education gives us knowledge of the world around us. People debate over the subject of whether education is the only thing that gives knowledge. Some say, education is the process of gaining information about the surrounding world while knowledge is something very different.
Continuous Learning and the Succession Planning Process - Webinar 10.09.13BizLibrary
For the webinar recording and follow-up information http://www.bizlibrary.com/bizblog/posts/2013/october/continuous-learning-and-the-succession-planning-process-webinar-10913.aspx
Webinar: Empowering Continuous Learning with the Tin Can API (xAPI) Rustici Software
Employees are demanding more continuous and varied approaches to learning, but many L&D organizations struggle to keep up. One big reason: a lot of that informal learning happens on the open web, inside mobile apps, and in real life – not in an LMS. This means that L&D teams aren’t getting the whole picture. And without it, they’ll have an increasingly difficult time connecting learning to business results.
Learn how CUES is using Tin Can API (xAPI) to plug L&D back into learning, and in the process plug learning back in to business results.
In this webinar, we’ll discuss:
*New types of learning methods and technologies for continuous learning
*The Learning Tech Stack and why a cohesive one is important
*How CUES empowers continuous learning for their members
Presenters that you'll hear from on this webinar:
* Dani Johnson, Research Manager, Bersin by Deloitte, Deloitte Consulting LLP
* Wendy Wang-Audia, Sr. Research Analyst, Bersin by Deloitte, Deloitte Consulting LLP
* Mike Rustici, President, Rustici Software
* Christopher Stephenson, VP/Professional Development and Innovation, CUES
Most traditional projects capture the majority of their lessons learned at the end of the project. The intent behind capturing these lessons is to allow the organization to apply them to future projects with a similar business or technical domain, or to projects that have similar team dynamics.
This approach, frankly, is too little, too late. We need to apply the benefits of learning as we go—on our current project, and as soon as possible.
Agile projects schedule continuous improvement activities into the plan as part of the methodology. The agile approach to lessons learned is deliberate and frequent, and it helps ensure that the team regularly considers adaptation and improvement to the point where it becomes habitual and part of their normal way of working.
We will look at the T&T and K&S that are part of this “Learn” step:
Retrospectives
Knowledge Sharing
Process Tailoring
Principles of Systems Thinking (Complex, Adaptive, Chaos)
Process Analysis
Continuous Improvement Processes
Self Assessment
21st Century Talent Management: The New Ways Companies Hire, Engage, and LeadJosh Bersin
How are world-class companies managing their people in 2014 and beyond? This detailed research-based presentation overviews the new solutions for talent acquisition, leadership development, engagement, building Millenial leadership and employee capability development.
The New Model for Talent Management: Agenda for 2015Josh Bersin
Corporate talent management has matured over the last ten years. In the light of today's new world of work, the globalization of the workforce, and the power of Millennials, it's time to rethink the model. Talent Management today is not just integration of HR - its a new set of 9 imperatives every company must address.
Mentoring programs have become mainstream. About 70% of Fortune 500 companies have one. A Harvard Business Review study of 30 professional firms found that, in a hypercompetitive world, it is easy for mentoring programs to become stale and bureaucratic. Mentoring can have positive impacts in terms of job satisfaction, organisational commitment, and even career progression. In this presentation, I explain how mentoring mentoring influences both career progression and salary. Of course many of these findings depend on the specific type of mentoring and institution, but positive effects are clear. Kindly contact me (WA: +233550157572 ) if need support to design a mentoring initiative in your workplace.
We've all heard it's lonely at the top! The truth is that it is only as lonely as you let it be. This post and accompanying slides describes how leaders who know better make one decision that nets them community, support, accountability, and much more.
We know that one-off learning events or experiences don't work. Learning is not transferred into practice and most learning is not used on the job. Learning and behavioural change is not easy. The growing interest in the 70:20:10 learning model reflects the need for L&D to focus on more than just courses. Designing how the components will work together can sometimes be challenging. Learning campaigns are a powerful approach to overcoming many of these challenges.
Topics to be covered include:
- The process for designing a learning campaign
- Push compared to pull learning campaigns
- How digital learning technologies can be used in a learning campaign
The Agile Retrospective is one of the primary feedback loops for a team to drive it's continuous improvement. In this short deck we look at 5W+H of retros. What are they, why are they needed, who needs to attend (and not), when do they need to be run, where (under what conditions) do they need to be run and tips and tricks on how to run a retro.
Cultivating a Culture of ExperimentationOptimizely
By harnessing insights from experimentation, people across your organization can contribute ideas and decisions that take the customer experience to new levels. To take advantage of this, forward-thinking organizations are getting everyone involved in experimentation. These slides will share how General Assembly is cultivating a culture of experimentation and the impact it’s making company-wide.
These slides are from a webinar delivered by Deri Hughes, Honeycomb PS Founder and Consulting Skills Expert.
Deri goes through the Honeycomb Consulting Skills Accelerator - a tried-and-tested toolkit to drive skill developing in professional services firms.
By deploying this approach firms can add £500k profit per consultant over 5 years - by progressing their teams faster to get more leverage.
There are 9 parts to the toolkit that Deri covers in the webinar:
- Vision
- Strategy
- Capabilities
- Team
- Project Experience
- Coaching
- Training
- Feedback
- Measurement
Get in touch if you want to know more (deri.hughes@honeycombps.co.uk)
Knowledge Management is first and foremost a willingness and desire of people within the organisation to help each other make things better. If this desire is not truly there, all that your process and technology-related investments will lead to, are expensive and embarrassing white elephants.
Innovation and Libraries Building a Collaborative Learning Ecosystem.pptxBrian Pichman
How can libraries explore new opportunities to enhance staff retention, attract new ideas, and create even better library programs? This webinar will work through a variety of leadership techniques as well as introduce software and tools to bridge gaps between teams, enhance communication, and foster collaboration. After attending this webinar, you will leave with a variety of new ideas to really expand what your library can do by using the team you have. The mechanics we work through can also be applied to the public and offer new incentives for visiting the library - whether that's virtually or physically.
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The Reactive Extensions (Rx) is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences and LINQ-style query operators. Here is an overview of Rx with examples at the end.
Why another test framework in dotnet ? In this presentation, I will try to convince you to switch to xUnit. Main concepts & extensibility points are covered here. Happy testing !
A really quick introduction to Microsoft Azure Storage and all of its services. It's one of the core components of Azure and it's really important to understand it if you want to "move to the cloud".
'Scenario Driven Design' allow programmers to make more usable APIs and avoid performance issues. REST principles are often misunderstood and programmers expose their raw data model without any logic. Think about your scenarios first !
Performance doesn’t have the same definition between system administrators, developpers and business teams. What is Performance ? High CPU usage, not scalable web site, low business transaction rate per sec, slow response time, … This presentation is about maths, code performance, load testing, web performance, best practices, … Working on performance optimizaton is a very broad topic. It’s important to really understand main concepts and to have a clean and strong methodology because it could be a very time consumming activity. Happy reading !
Because we are not only shipping code and we are no longer Microsoft developers but .NET developers, it's time to open your mind and to see what is offering the OSS world.
Docker is an amazing tool.
Docker did popularize container and brought a way to manage it.
Ok, seems to be cool, but why do developers care?
- Static application environment: we know exactly what we are running
- Repeatable, runnable artifact: we can deploy everywhere, anytime
- Loosely coupled: we can manage, isolate, and compose at environment level easily
Please have a look to this Betclic presentation and remember that .NET CLR are coming in GNU/linux world!
Flyway is a light database migration tools:
- Migrate the database from a list of sql migration scripts (schemas and data).
- Each script is prefixed by a version number that determine the version of the database.
- The execution trace of the scripts is saved in a "schemas_version" table.
- Automatically find which scripts to execute to upgrate a database to a specific version.
NDepend is a static analysis tool for .NET managed code. This tool supports a large number of code metrics, allows for visualization of dependencies using directed graphs and dependency matrix. The tools also performs code base snapshots comparison, and validation of architectural and quality rules.
A mixed introduction of Lean and Agile concepts targeted at business audience, presenting 3 key lean concepts (MVP, short feedback loop, cost of delay).
asp.net vNext is the next major version on .net on the server. It’s a completely new way to work with awesome possibilities ; It contains a new flexible and cross-platform runtime, new modular HTTP request pipeline, Cloud-ready CLR, an unified programming model that combines MVC, Web API, and Web Pages, a no-compilation dev experience, ability to self-host or host on IIS, …
Best of all : it’s Open source in GitHub (https://github.com/aspnet/Home)
Since the introduction of C#, async/await concepts are still misunderstood by many developers.
Async programming tries to solve three problems (Offloading, Concurrency, Scalability) in a mean abstraction.
This presentation is a good starting point to asynchronous programming in .net. There are many links and references, so do not hesitate to go deeper.
The Model View ViewModel (MVVM) is an architectural pattern originated by Microsoft as a specialization of the Presentation Model (Martin Fowler). Similar to MVC, MVVM is suitable for client applications (Xaml-based, Xamarin, SPA, ...) because it facilitates a clear separation between the UI and the Business Logic. Examples with WPF, MvvmCross, AngularJs. It also contains solutions for common use cases.
Recommendations are everywhere : music, movies, books, social medias, e-commerce web sites… The Web is leaving the era of search and entering one of discovery. This quick introduction will help you to understand this vast topic and why you should use it.
In one of our weekly training, we’ve talked about Git. Here is a quick overview of the main concepts, basic commands and branching strategy, how to work with Git, how to contribute to an OSS project, …
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
2. Developing a Culture of Learning
– The pace of change in our market and on the web in general forces
companies to adapt fast. To be adaptive as an organization, that
organization must intentionally engage in Continuous Learning.
– When you learn as a team, you become more adaptable and achieve
much better results, especially when the pace of change is fast.
Teams that learn quickly are more adaptive than teams that don't.
Adaptive teams are teams that can get better results, by rapid
response to change.
f.rivain@betclicgroup.com
3. Levels of learning
• 3 levels:
1. Individual
2. Team
3. Organization
f.rivain@betclicgroup.com
4. Continuous Learning at Individual Level
• Learning requires time and effort, as well as the decision to
want to learn.
• Make individuals understand the value of continuous learning,
and how it will not only help the organization, but most
importantly, it will be a great benefit to the learner as well.
• Examples: trainings, coaching and mentoring, seminars and
workshops, also through actual application and practice of
skills and knowledge
f.rivain@betclicgroup.com
5. Continuous Learning at Team Level
• Means collective individual learning: if the members
of the team acquire and share new knowledge and
information, then team learning takes place.
• Involves a set of learning processes that support and
aid team performance
• Examples: reflections, feedback, experimentation,
group discussions, and Q&A sessions.
f.rivain@betclicgroup.com
6. Continuous Learning at Organization Level
• Comprises change of interaction patterns,
change of policies and procedures, new
culture and new innovations.
• Example: feedback from the employees
themselves, from clients, and from customers.
Getting comments and ideas.
f.rivain@betclicgroup.com
7. Agile : a learning laboratory
• Agile means that teams must first become skilled at
learning as a group:
– Retrospective
– Auto-organization: estimate, design, self-management
– Safe space: safe to take risk. Experiment / trial-and-error: fail
or succeed.
• Agile teams are in fact small Learning Organizations.
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8. Scaling Agile at enterprise level
• Very complicated task. Hard to achieve.
• Agile teams operate in a safe space for learning.
• Creation of enterprise-wide safe space is a non-trivial
problem to solve.
Tribal Learning: start below the enterprise, above the team,
by Managers, for groups of 20 to 150 people.
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9. Tribal Learning: practices
• Encourage good group behavior on top of
Agile patterns to facilitate meetings and group
work:
• paying explicit attention,
• being punctual,
• honoring Scrum values: Focus, Commitment, Openness,
Courage, and Respect.
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10. Tribal Learning: automatic authorization
• As a manager, you have implicit authorization
to try and change a few things around.
• You are pre-authorized = empowered.
• Leverage your formal, positional authority as
a manager to direct your staff, convene
meetings, and so on. Don't ask permission!
• Example: change meeting rules if people are
usually late.
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11. Tribal Learning: tribal leadership
• Encourage and influence other groups to try your practices.
• Identify and align with other managers who share values with
you.
• Starting small: 1 or 2 other managers
• People will begin to share values, to participate in continuous
improvement and will eventually be part of the tribe.
• Remember the wildfire metaphor
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12. Learning and Change
• All learning is change, and all
change is belief-change. When you
learn, you modify your beliefs.
• People who are always learning
are constantly changing their
models.
• They have become adept at
responding and adjusting to new
information and knowledge as it
becomes available to them.
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13. The learning cycle
• For instance:
– Agile holds 4 core
values, underlined by
12 principles.
– Those generate
actions and results,
from which we
compile our
experience.
– Our experience
changes our beliefs.
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14. HOW TO CONTRIBUTE TO A CULTURE
OF CONTINUOUS LEARNING
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15. Be Purposeful / Announce your intent
State your purpose early and often. Make it easy
for those who follow you to understand your
vision, your mission and your intent.
This clarity helps everyone around you, and
increases levels of group learning.
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16. Facilitate and Game Your Meetings
Optimize the meeting process, by
guiding the members to share and
achieve a common goal and action
plan
Make meetings fun, enjoyable, and
engaging by gaming them.
Try other types of meetings, such as
Open Space Meetings
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17. Examine Your Norms
Normal is what you willingly tolerate. Examine
your norms, because what you tolerate is a
minimal level of what you insist on.
What you insist on is more likely to happen. Insist
on norms that encourage greatness.
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18. Be Punctual
Punctuality associates with focus,
commitment, and respect; these
in turn associate with individual
and group greatness. The whole
group cannot learn together if the
whole group is not present.
Punctuality as a norm explicitly
devalues lateness and tardiness. It
takes openness and courage to
establish punctually as a norm.
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19. Conduct Frequent Experiments
Frequent experimentation means frequent
learning. Make learning into a game, by
scheduling frequent, cheap experiments. Failing
cheap means learning economically.
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20. Manage Visually / Be Playful
Use visual artifacts to convey messages and
influence thoughts and perception.
Play games to get work done. Use games for
simulation, work, and learning.
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21. Inspect Frequently / Pay Explicit Attention
Use iteration and frequent inspection to make a
game of change. Inspect and retrospect
frequently at all levels.
Pay attention to what is working and what is not.
Zoom in on details and focus on results. Discuss
with the specific intent to be excellent.
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22. Get Coached
Coaching helps the learning process and is a best
practice. A coach will see what you do not and
cannot.
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23. Understanding Delays
• Delays in achieving good
results are common.
• Good steps taken today
usually do not have an
immediate positive effect.
The truth is that you often
get worse before you get
better, because of the
investment period.
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24. Bad Moves Make You Better, Then MUCH Worse
• Example: adding more
people to a late project.
• So use practices that
produce small results with
low delay.
• Experiment cheaply.
• Avoid the tendency to
backslide to old habits,
even if changing is painful.
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25. Values
1. Serve Others
2. Be Purposeful
3. Communicate Honestly with Respect
4. Create Relationships
5. Increase Learning
6. Be Open-Minded
7. Adapt to Change
8. Create Fun
9. Be Focused, Committed, and Courageous
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26. CONCRETE IDEAS FOR A CONTINUOUS
LEARNING IT ORGANIZATION
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27. Mini-training cycle
• 30 min weekly: 20 min presentation + 10 min question.
• Any speaker, any topic.
• Raise team awareness about continuous learning
• Explore new topics with curiosity
• Improve communication skills by being a speaker in a safe
environment
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28. Blogs
• Internal
o Share, Communicate, Serve Others.
o Increase Learning
• External
o Promote Betclic IT team, Motivate, hire,
retain top engineers
o Contribute to team learning and
performance, by reflecting, formalizing
and sharing our practices (with the peer
pressure of making it public)
o Atracting external contributions
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29. Conferences
Be a speaker or participate to
a conference.
• Learn and discover
• Meet other people. Create
relationships.
• Open your horizon
• Share your knowledge and
experience
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30. Hack Days / Innovation Days
Take some time off to make a break and innovate:
– Take 1 day to build prototypes, demo them, vote for the
best and reward the best team, follow up to put in
production the best ones.
• Be creative
• Work with other developers and with business teams
• Learn and have fun
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31. Monthly Lab Days
Regularly organize days where developers are
allowed to do other stuff (IT intelligence,
training, clean up code, prototype, code for
external projects, write blog articles…)
– Agenda for each person to be explicit.
• Auto-learning
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32. Bug Fixing Day
Organize a one-day contest where all
developers try and fix as many bugs as possible.
Reward the best bug fixers.
• Have fun and be productive together.
• Reduce bug count.
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33. Developer Exchange Program
Switch developers between teams or companies
to share and learn.
• Discover and learn other practices
• Be open-minded
• Create relationships
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34. Pair and Mob Programming
• Pair Programming is 2 developers working together: either for
mentoring, or between peers on a complex topic.
• Mob Programming: is an extension to a whole team to
collectively train the team to a new technology or
architecture.
– http://mobprogramming.org/
– https://techblog.betclicgroup.com/2014/09/03/weve-done-a-3-days-mob-
programming-at-betclic/
– https://techblog.betclicgroup.com/2014/09/23/mob-programming-angularjs-dojo/
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35. Code Dojos & Coding Katas
• Train your programming skills with small
exercises, challenge your abilities and
encourage to find multiple approaches.
– Play with code without fearing any consequences!
Also discover & learn new methods, areas,
algorithms, languages, libraries ...
• https://techblog.betclicgroup.com/2015/04/29/coding-dojo-the-fruit-shop/
• https://github.com/Betclic/CodingDojo-Katas
• http://codingkata.net/
• http://www.cyber-dojo.com/
• http://www.codechef.com/f.rivain@betclicgroup.com
36. Brown-Bag Lunches
• Invite an external expert to come and speak to
the team (and offer him lunch).
• Another opportunity to learn, from the
experts.
• http://www.brownbaglunch.fr/
• https://techblog.betclicgroup.com/2014/10/10/bbl-an-introduction-to-f-by-pierre-irrmann/
• https://techblog.betclicgroup.com/2014/05/12/bbl-code-refactoring-by-david-gageot/
• https://techblog.betclicgroup.com/2014/04/08/bbl-on-xamarin/
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37. Ciné-Goûter / Watching tech videos at tea time
• Watching together and commenting a video
from a conference.
• Drinks and cookies.
• We usually do it during Lab Days.
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38. IT intelligence
Take some time to review state-of-the-art blogs and
articles, based on your interests and learning domains.
– Build your own RSS library of feeds
– Use twitter as input
– Share with others on the blog.
• Auto-learning
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39. External projects
Encourage senior dev to participate in external projects:
– http://www.codeplex.com/
– https://github.com/explore
– http://sourceforge.net/blog/potm/
Open-Source your internal tools.
• Learning with others
• Practice other areas of coding
• « Peer pressure » on code cleanup
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40. Programming and Logic Puzzles
• To tickle the brain and challenge your
logical/mathematical/programming skills
– http://programmingpraxis.com/
– http://projecteuler.net/
– http://www.topcoder.com/tc
– http://www.pythonchallenge.com/
– http://rubyquiz.com/
– http://uva.onlinejudge.org/
– http://www.spoj.pl/
– http://code.google.com/codejam/contests.html
– http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/riddles/intro.shtml
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41. Play & Learn
Make IT fun: set up avatars, trophies,
points…
– Game what you do: coding, meetings,
learning…
– http://www.playmaking.org/
– http://fr.slideshare.net/portiatung/the
-powerofplay36
• People learn better while having
fun
• Create relationships
• Create fun
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42. References
• The Culture Game, Dan Mezick
• http://www.exforsys.com/career-
center/performance-development/importance-of-
continuous-learning.html
• http://adulted.about.com/od/onthejobtraining/p/
whatsinitforyou.htm
• http://managementhelp.org/blogs/training-and-
development/2011/06/06/how-many-steps-to-
continuous-learning-none/
• Tribes & Chapters (Agile at Spotify):
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1018963/Articles/Spotif
yScaling.pdf
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