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Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
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What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
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• Communication Mining Overview
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• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
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Presented by Vladimir Iglovikov:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/iglovikov/
- https://x.com/viglovikov
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This case study covers various aspects, including:
People: The contributors and community that have supported Albumentations.
Metrics: The success indicators such as downloads, daily active users, GitHub stars, and financial contributions.
Challenges: The hurdles in monetizing open-source projects and measuring user engagement.
Development Practices: Best practices for creating, maintaining, and scaling open-source libraries, including code hygiene, CI/CD, and fast iteration.
Community Building: Strategies for making adoption easy, iterating quickly, and fostering a vibrant, engaged community.
Marketing: Both online and offline marketing tactics, focusing on real, impactful interactions and collaborations.
Mental Health: Maintaining balance and not feeling pressured by user demands.
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Vladimir Iglovikov brings his extensive experience as a Kaggle Grandmaster, ex-Staff ML Engineer at Lyft, sharing valuable lessons and practical advice for anyone looking to enhance the adoption of their open-source projects.
Explore more about Albumentations and join the community at:
GitHub: https://github.com/albumentations-team/albumentations
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/100504475
Twitter: https://x.com/albumentations
24. IS Research in SMEs: Literature
• SME-IT Literature overview
5
IT Managerial, IT Artifact Impact
Methodological, and Satis-
Technological Capabilities System Information 6
faction 121
Use 37 1
12 Quality Quality Organiza- Individual
5 1 tional Impact Impact
3 32
8
2
IT
Managerial, Methodologic
al, and Technological
14
Practices
Source: Benbasat & Zmud, 2003; Gable et al, 2008
Devos, J. Van Landeghem H. & Deschoolmeester D., (2009), IT and SMEs: Literature
Overview.
46. IS Research in SMEs
Cover-Up Deaf, Dumb
high
Organization and Blind
Organization
Mum Effect
bad news is Healthy Ostrich
transmitted less
frequently than low Organization Organization
good news
low high
Deaf Effect
reluctance to hear bad news
Blowing the whistle on troubled software projects (Keil, 2001)
56. Conclusions
• Why do IT projects fail in SMEs?
• Information asymmetry
• Low IT managerial, technological and methodological capabilities
in SMEs
• How do IT projects fail in SMEs?
• Opportunistic behavior
• Deterioration of trust
• Lack of control
• How do SMEs manage there IT?
• Absence of a formal intentional IT management
• Why is there not enough IT Governance in SMEs?
• IT Governance is not an SME concept
• Lack of IT managerial, technological and methodological practices
60. Theory of Lemon Markets
• Nobel Prize Winner G. Akerlof, 1970
(Akerlof, G.A. (1970). „The Market for 'Lemons': Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism‟.
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 84(3), 488-500.)
• a market with unbalanced information can lead to
complete disappearance or to offerings with poor quality
where bad products (lemons) wipe out the good ones
• Popular economic grant theory
• Used car market (lemons)
• E-business, E-auctions, IT security, Grid computing, IT outsourcing
• Devos J., Van Landeghem H. and Deschoolmeester D., (2010), An IS Theory:
The Lemon Market, in Information Systems Theory: Explaining and Predicting
Our Digital Society, Y.K. Dwivedi, M. Wade & S.L. Schneberger, to be published
in 2011
66. Theory of Lemon Markets
• A market place: buyers and sellers (internally/externally;
individuals/firms): von Neumann-Morgenstein maximizers of
Expected Utility
• Information Asymmetry between transacting partners
• Overall quality of goods and services offered is
reflected to the entire group of sellers rather than on
individual sellers
• Lack of seller differentiation
• There is incentive to market low quality (igniting
condition)
• High-quality sellers flee the market because their
quality and reputation cannot be rewarded
• Complete Market Deterioration
67. Theory of Lemon Markets
independent
Information
Asymmetry
+ - +
Adverse
Trust Moral Hazard
Selection
- +
- - Opportunistic
Reputation
Behavior
-
Perceived
Quality
86. Problems and solutions
Top 10 of IS failure risks
1. Lack of top management commitment to the project
2. Failure to gain user commitment
3. Misunderstanding the requirements
4. Lack of adequate user involvement
5. Lack of required knowledge/skills in the project personnel
6. Lack of frozen requirements
7. Changing scope/objective
8. Introduction of new technology
9. Failure to manage end user expectations
10. Insufficient/appropriate staffing
Source: Schmidt, Lyytinen, Keil & Cule; Identifying Software Project Risks, 2001
87. Problems and solutions
A Framework for IT Governance in SMEs
• Building theory from case studies (Eisenhardt, 2007)
▫ Observations from previous literature
▫ Commons sense
▫ Experience
• Multiple case studies (#5)
▫ Theoretically chosen, not randomly !
• Software Project Risks (Schmidt et al, 2001)
▫ Potentially important constructs
• Pattern mapping
Result the OISF Framework