This document discusses making Scrum work in regulated industries. It addresses challenges with compliance requirements and how they can be a hurdle to Agile practices. The document presents quotes from government officials about their experiences using Scrum. It then outlines an agenda to discuss market trends, how teams want to work versus requirements, and potential organizational patterns to address compliance in an Agile way. Case studies are presented and an exercise is described for attendees to build their own organizational pattern.
How to earn 15% interest (and understand stablecoins)Sean O'Connor
Do you want to understand the world of DeFi and stablecoins? In this deck we'll take you through a high-level understanding of stablecoins and how to generate interest from them.
This one-day conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) will provide practical knowledge about how the FCPA affects businesses and tips on minimizing FCPA violations. The conference features panels of legal and compliance experts from various industries discussing topics like managing FCPA compliance programs, using data analytics to detect corruption risks, and addressing corruption risks through financial controls. The event is targeted towards corporate counsel, compliance professionals, auditors, and others. Registration includes a discount for members of certain professional associations.
The document discusses making agile work in regulated industries. It notes that compliance requirements can bring heavyweight documentation and complex approval processes that are challenging for agile. However, some government organizations like the FBI have found success adopting agile practices. The document also provides examples of developer preferences and organizational patterns that can help balance compliance needs with agile values.
Making Scrum Stick Inside Heavy Regulated Industries (2012) Laszlo Szalvay
Laszlo Szalvay is a VP at CollabNet who oversees their global Scrum business. He has extensive experience helping organizations adopt and scale agile practices. Prior to CollabNet, he co-founded Danube, a leader in Scrum tools and training, which was later acquired by CollabNet. He is a recognized expert in implementing distributed agile environments and addressing cultural challenges.
This is my current work and thinking on how to do Scrum within heavily regulated industries like healthcare, government, and finance. For more information join my community at http://scrumandcompliance.com/
How can marketers respond to the rapidly changing marketplace today? Agile or Scrum methodology could be one of the answers. This deck describes agile and the way that the team at HubSpot uses it to make marketing fast, focused, prioritized and predictable.
Marketing the Agile Way - Applying Scrum Outside of DevelomentKirsten Knipp
Using agile development methodologies in marketing is becoming more prevalent. This presentation defines scrum and describes how it's used in practice at HubSpot to gain greater transparency, manage prioritization better and achieve more predictability in our marketing efforts.
Agile Lean Europe 2018 - Zurich, 22-24 August 2018. What is an Agile Organization and how transform your company in an Agile Organization with Scrum@Scale.
How to earn 15% interest (and understand stablecoins)Sean O'Connor
Do you want to understand the world of DeFi and stablecoins? In this deck we'll take you through a high-level understanding of stablecoins and how to generate interest from them.
This one-day conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) will provide practical knowledge about how the FCPA affects businesses and tips on minimizing FCPA violations. The conference features panels of legal and compliance experts from various industries discussing topics like managing FCPA compliance programs, using data analytics to detect corruption risks, and addressing corruption risks through financial controls. The event is targeted towards corporate counsel, compliance professionals, auditors, and others. Registration includes a discount for members of certain professional associations.
The document discusses making agile work in regulated industries. It notes that compliance requirements can bring heavyweight documentation and complex approval processes that are challenging for agile. However, some government organizations like the FBI have found success adopting agile practices. The document also provides examples of developer preferences and organizational patterns that can help balance compliance needs with agile values.
Making Scrum Stick Inside Heavy Regulated Industries (2012) Laszlo Szalvay
Laszlo Szalvay is a VP at CollabNet who oversees their global Scrum business. He has extensive experience helping organizations adopt and scale agile practices. Prior to CollabNet, he co-founded Danube, a leader in Scrum tools and training, which was later acquired by CollabNet. He is a recognized expert in implementing distributed agile environments and addressing cultural challenges.
This is my current work and thinking on how to do Scrum within heavily regulated industries like healthcare, government, and finance. For more information join my community at http://scrumandcompliance.com/
How can marketers respond to the rapidly changing marketplace today? Agile or Scrum methodology could be one of the answers. This deck describes agile and the way that the team at HubSpot uses it to make marketing fast, focused, prioritized and predictable.
Marketing the Agile Way - Applying Scrum Outside of DevelomentKirsten Knipp
Using agile development methodologies in marketing is becoming more prevalent. This presentation defines scrum and describes how it's used in practice at HubSpot to gain greater transparency, manage prioritization better and achieve more predictability in our marketing efforts.
Agile Lean Europe 2018 - Zurich, 22-24 August 2018. What is an Agile Organization and how transform your company in an Agile Organization with Scrum@Scale.
The document discusses open source governance and moving open source projects to foundations. It provides examples of open source projects, like Vert.x, that faced governance issues when associated with a single company. It outlines options for governance models like staying independent, forking, or moving to a foundation. Foundations discussed include Software for Public Interest, Software Freedom Conservancy, Outercurve, Apache Software Foundation, and Eclipse Foundation. The document compares services foundations offer around governance, IP management, infrastructure, and community support. It emphasizes that good governance through a vendor-neutral foundation can provide predictability and encourage open collaboration for open source projects.
Agile 2013: Pat Reed and I discussing Scrum and Compliance Laszlo Szalvay
To become a mainstream methodology, Agile had to overcome many potential obstacles. The first was geography…One of today’s most daunting obstacles is compliance, often bringing heavyweight documentation, required procedures that are very waterfall-ish, complex approval work flows, and complicated approval processes begins Compliance Is A Hurdle, Not A Barrier, To Agile a Forrester Research paper published in July 2011.
This presentation will walk attendees through the problem of why organizations trying to manage a software development life cycle or PMO in a heavily regulated industry are fraught with challenges (e.g. externally mandated documentation levels, limiting the requirements and scope of the Product Owner, morale of employees). The presenters will discuss the fact that many of the external compliance standards (FASB, MAS, FSOC) are vague, and worse yet not written with the software development team in mind. In fact one of the risks is the interpretation of policy or external compliance standard remains on the business or with an executive (through personal / fiduciary guarantees). For example, authors of US Federal legislation (e.g. Dodd Frank Act) do not specifically consider software development when writing laws and are often ignorant to the downstream effects of said legislation for a development team based in Russia or India. When asked for clarifications the FSOC does not know enough about software development to provide clear and concise answers and the amount of documentation in the said legislation can be (a) in the thousands of pages and (b) within living documents.
This document provides an overview of open source software including definitions, pros and cons, business models, and considerations for switching between open source and closed source models. It discusses key topics such as the open source community, customers' decision factors, popular licenses, market trends of open source projects and investments. Business models covered include services, SaaS, commercial plugins, dual licensing, and freemium. The document concludes with recommendations for open source companies regarding community engagement, transparency, and balancing commercial interests.
This document discusses a case study of implementing a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) for an organization called Catalyst. A CMDB plays an important role in supporting many ITIL processes, but Catalyst was facing challenges with manual processes, diverse tools and data models across different locations. Successfully implementing a CMDB that can centrally collect harmonized data based on an agreed core data model is important. However, collecting, maintaining and ensuring quality of the data in the CMDB requires effort and resources.
College of Doctoral StudiesDBA-835 Integrated Case Study.docxtarifarmarie
College of Doctoral Studies
DBA-835 Integrated Case Study
In this course, you will interact with Part III of a multi-year, integrated case study experience. This part of the case study focuses on economic issues and related ethical decisions.
The Case
Purple Cloud was founded 15 years ago and has grown from a start-up security company to a small, but well-respected competitor in the rapidly growing security sector. The founder, A. Nathan Tecnoti, is a visionary leader who forecasted the need to develop robust software products that protected both individuals and companies. As the Internet grew, so did Tecnoti’s business. He innovated rapidly, but Tecnoti could not keep up with the ever-changing technologies and was often outmaneuvered by larger companies who had larger and more proficient technical staffs and marketing budgets. Tecnoti began seeking a way to accelerate product development so he could increase market share and take advantage of new market opportunities. It is for this reason that Tecnoti developed an acquisition strategy to rapidly acquire companies that offered promising security technologies.
Invoking that strategy, Purple Cloud acquired ABCTech during a positive economic outlook. Video press coverage of this event can be viewed at https://lc.gcumedia.com/mgt805/business-acquisition-press-release-video/v1.1/. The ABCTech product acquired by Purple Cloud was completely different than any other software security application offered in the market. The product offered an elegant solution implemented with a single update to the user's computer operating system thereby bypassing the need to distribute daily updates to address new security threats. The simplicity of the solution circumvented both the necessity to acquire capital to build or acquire extensive infrastructure and the requisite addition of high-priced support staff. Nonetheless, the company now has approximately 200 employees, about 40% of which are full-time.
Purple Cloud has survived the economic downturn of a few years ago and, in fact, experienced a resurgence on the cybersecurity front since many people feared the vulnerability of personal information located online. Despite transforming this $40 million company into a $100 million organization with a current stock price of 71, the executives still feel it is necessary to safeguard their long-term investment as they look toward a more sustainable future. The uncertainty surrounding how Purple Cloud will approach sustainability has led Chris Christianson, one of the co-founders of ABCTech, to have his company shares bought out stating that he is uncomfortable with the current forecasting. When asked about his departure, Christianson said,
It has been a long time coming. I was new to running a business, and as long as I was able to see where the company was going and growing, I was willing to stay. Recently, it just was not fun for me anymore. So, I am stepping down to allow the Purple Cloud leadership to replace.
Social Approaches to Funding and Lending, Crowd FundingJay van Zyl
Social Approaches to Funding, Crowd Funding:
1. PFM and financial management tools
2. Open innovation models
3. P2P and other models to funding and lending
This landscape gives a perspective on the overlapping approaches to funding companies and projects in the social world.
Dr. Jay van Zyl
Streaming Processes: Creating a Start-up Within a Big Corporate (Mohammad Sha...Executive Leaders Network
Presented at Executive Leaders Network CMO/DPO/CIO/CISO Event on October 06th.
"How Haleon have established a software-defined lifecycle that decreases the effort required for build and integration. Making new features, bug fixes, experiments, configuration changes always ready for deployment to a production environment."
This document discusses myths and realities around corporate use and compliance with open source software. It summarizes that while some myths suggest companies only use open source for free software and do not comply with licenses or contribute back, the reality is that many companies invest heavily in open source compliance programs and processes. It also notes that many companies actively contribute back to open source communities and foundations.
The fastest moving enterprises share one thing in common: They don’t let today’s technology slow down tomorrow’s innovations. With first-hand insights from Jeff Sutherland, technology innovation expert, this slideshow discusses:
- Overcoming legacy ERP and CRM system roadblocks
- Never building anything twice at your organization
- Creating a feedback culture to spur innovation
**Download report: Gartner 2015 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Platform as a Service (aPaaS)
Download this report to better understand the aPaaS landscape and how the right platform can accelerate your software delivery cadence and capacity.
http://ww2.mendix.com/gartner-magic-quadrant-q1-2015.html
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mendix
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mendix
Sarbanes Oxley & IT Compliance discusses the Sarbanes Oxley Act and its implications for IT departments. The act was passed in 2002 in response to several corporate accounting scandals. It aims to improve financial disclosures and prevent fraud. Compliance is costly for companies and affects departments like finance, IT, and operations. The document recommends establishing cross-functional teams, coordinating IT activities with overall security plans, and seeking technology solutions to reduce compliance costs over time through areas like document management and controls automation.
OpenChain Webinar #56: Generative AI and Your CodeShane Coughlan
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Maximizing the Opportunity While Managing the Risks
This webinar had a poll about areas of interest around AI and law. Click here to access it:
https://forms.office.com/r/MaZFgHuH6v
About This Webinar
Generative AI (GAI) provides powerful opportunities for innovation and productivity across all organizational functions – from composing emails and crafting press releases to retouching and refining images and video, all this in seconds. GAI tools can even be used to write, test and improve computer code! This comes with risks that need to be managed within your organization, in order to realize the competitive advantage these GAI tools can provide.
In this webinar, Anthony Decicco and Wael Nackasha, attorneys at GTC Law Group:
- Provide an introduction to GAI and its use to generate software code, text, and images
- Explain how machines learn, including training data and the resulting models
- Cover how developers are using GAI tools (such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT) to write and augment source code, with a focus on:
-- A ‘demo’ of how the tools work
-- The community reactions and recent litigation
-- The benefits and risks of the tools
-- Ways to mitigate the risks
-- Best practices for policies and procedures
Scrum, XP, and Kanban have been proven to provide step changes in productivity and quality for software teams. However, these methods do not have the native constructs necessary to scale to challenges of building enterprise class software systems. What the industry desperately needs is a solution that moves from a set of simplistic, disparate, development-centric methods, to a scalable, unified approach that addresses the complex constructs and additional stakeholders in the organization- and enables realization of enterprise-class product or service initiatives via aligned and cooperative solution development.
In this talk, Dean Leffingwell describes how to accomplish this with the Scaled Agile Framework, a publicly - accessible knowledge base of proven Lean and Agile practices for enterprise-class software development. He approaches the problem from the perspectives of Lean thinking and principles of product development flow, illustrating how these core principles help deliver business results at scale, while keeping the development system - and the enterprise - lean and responsive to rapidly changing market needs. And since winning is more fun, he’ll also describe some of the personal benefits that come when teams master the art of delivering better enterprise-class software, at an ever faster pace.
Individual Project I-3
1. Title
Technology Innovation Project
2. Introduction
Background of the Corporation
Largo Corporation is a major multinational conglomerate corporation which specializes in a wide array of products and services. These products and services include healthcare, finance, retail, government services, and many more. The annual revenue is about $750 million and it has about 1,000 employees. The parent company is located in Largo, Maryland and its subsidiaries are headquartered throughout the United States.
The mission of the corporation is to bring the best products and services to people and businesses throughout the world so they can then realize their full potential.
The corporate vision guides every aspect of their business to achieve sustainable, quality growth:
Productivity: Be a highly effective, lean and fast-moving organization.
People: Be a great place to work where people are inspired to achieve their maximum potential.
Partners: Nurture a winning network of customers and suppliers, together we create mutual, enduring value.
Responsible: Be a responsible citizen that makes a difference through ethical behavior.
Revenue: Maximize long-term return while being mindful of our overall responsibilities.
The company’s culture is reflected in their corporate values:
Leadership: Courage to shape a better future.
Collaboration: Leverage collective intelligence.
Accountability: Own up to your responsibility.
Passion: Committed to excellence.
Diversity: Provide new perspectives into our business.
Quality: We will want quality as part of our brand.
The corporation consists of the parent company and the following subsidiaries:
Healthcare – Suburban Independent Clinic, Inc. (medical services)
Finance – Largo Capital (financial services)
Retail – Rustic Americana (arts and crafts), Super-Mart (office products)
Government Services – Government Security Consultants (information security)
Automotive – New Breed (electric cars)
Systems Integration –
Solution
s Delivery, Inc. (communications)
Media Design – Largo Media (website and app design)
The organization is headed by CEO Tara Johnson who completed her Master’s degree at UMUC and eager to make worthwhile improvements to the corporation. She rose through the ranks of Largo Corporation starting with systems integration, then retail and her last position before becoming CEO was in finance.
The corporation is in a highly competitive environment so the CEO wants savvy employees at many levels to make wise judgments and take an aggressive approach and deliver results towards improving the bottom line yet maintaining corporate social responsibility.
Corporate Issues
Ms. Johnson is very concerned about the outlook of her company. Revenues recently declined and she felt that the organization needed a transformation for the company to do well over the long term. In thumbing through some readings she was inspired when she uncovered the following:
We live in a business world acceler.
In September, I presented the Lima Consulting Group Digital Transformation Maturity Model to the closed-circuit television to Sanofi employees in the Americas. Here's the material!
CEO / CXO Architecture - The missing piece in your BI&A architectureCorporater
Most CEOs and CXOs are not happy with the BI&A initiatives. There is an apparent gap between what insights/information the top management needs from IT, and what is delivered. In this presentation, you will get critical insights into what a BI&A architecture should contain in order to close this gap.
This presentation will help you understand the specific core building blocks needed to reach business outcomes, and how the BI&A architecture can serve this purpose – all viewed from a CEO/CXO’s perspective.
The Telephone And Telegraph CorporationLori Gilbert
The document discusses the merger between Dixons Retail and Carphone Warehouse to form Dixons Carphone plc in August 2014. The merger combined two of the largest electrical retailers and services companies in the UK market. Both companies had seen falling margins in recent years. After several meetings, the companies agreed to a £3.8 billion "merger of equals" that created an electrical retailer selling a wide range of products from phones to fridges along with support services. The merger has helped the combined company gain more profit than the two companies achieved separately. Dixons Carphone plc now employs over 40,000 people across 9 countries in Europe.
This document discusses how an agile transformation can be self-funding through an incremental, evolutionary approach. It advocates bootstrapping agile practices internally by taking iterative approaches to implementing processes. This allows benefits to be realized early on, which can then be reinvested to further the transformation. It provides an example of a company that transitioned to agile in this way, initially implementing practices like Scrum and XP on their own and seeing improvements that enabled continued training investments over time.
A tale of two cities: Merging Yahoo and Aol’s open source programsAshley Wolf
Every company needs to address how they manage open source. Verizon Media is the merger of Yahoo and AOL, and those two companies ran their open source programs quite differently. The result of bringing them together was surprisingly good, but the process to get there offers many insights into how you can structure your open source program office to address the biggest problems you may face.
Ashley Wolf and Gil Yehuda explain how Verizon Media now addresses license compliance, community management, the publication process, and how to run a program office at scale. You’ll explore real-world examples of things that worked well and things that needed much repair—as well as details on how it was done—and get advice on how to apply these lessons to your businesses.
Neglecting your open source program leads to problems. Ashley and Gil highlight some big ones, like when the wrong people have access to your code, license issues get you in hot water, and employees make well-meaning but incorrect decisions about code publications. Sometimes it takes a revolution to force you to step back and get a better hold on your open source program. But you don’t have to wait for a merger to force the changes. Better to set the processes right starting today; Ashley and Gil show you how.
If you don’t have a formal open source program office, or if you have one that needs a boost with some new ideas about how to maximize your value to the company, join this talk.
Augmented reality is rapidly bringing the physical and digital worlds closer. While this can create value for businesses, it also means new challenges such as who owns augmented spaces that government and businesses need to work together to regulate. https://deloi.tt/2YwQKXe
Organizational Design Scaling in Retail [Agile, Lean]Laszlo Szalvay
Massage Envy Franchising, LLC (MEF, Franchisor) lacks an effective goto market for new multi-unit Massage Envy Franchisees. These are my thoughts on that topic.
Proposed Title Fear and Loathing in Agility: Long Live the Accounting Departm...Laszlo Szalvay
"A dead ScrumMaster is a useless ScrumMaster,” echo the votary of Ken Schwaber (Co-Founder of Scrum) folklore. In this session hosted by Pat Reed (Agile Alliance Board Member) and Laszlo Szalvay (Executive at SolutionsIQ) we will explore how and why the accounting department needs to be your biggest champion as you embark on your next agile transformation. Pat and Laszlo will walk through concrete steps and real world examples of how capitalization works with Scrum and what you need to tell the accountants so they don’t shoot you.
So don’t end up a dead ScrumMaster.
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This presentation will walk attendees through the problem of why organizations trying to manage a software development life cycle or PMO in a heavily regulated industry are fraught with challenges (e.g. externally mandated documentation levels, limiting the requirements and scope of the Product Owner, morale of employees). The presenters will discuss the fact that many of the external compliance standards (FASB, MAS, FSOC) are vague, and worse yet not written with the software development team in mind. In fact one of the risks is the interpretation of policy or external compliance standard remains on the business or with an executive (through personal / fiduciary guarantees). For example, authors of US Federal legislation (e.g. Dodd Frank Act) do not specifically consider software development when writing laws and are often ignorant to the downstream effects of said legislation for a development team based in Russia or India. When asked for clarifications the FSOC does not know enough about software development to provide clear and concise answers and the amount of documentation in the said legislation can be (a) in the thousands of pages and (b) within living documents.
This document provides an overview of open source software including definitions, pros and cons, business models, and considerations for switching between open source and closed source models. It discusses key topics such as the open source community, customers' decision factors, popular licenses, market trends of open source projects and investments. Business models covered include services, SaaS, commercial plugins, dual licensing, and freemium. The document concludes with recommendations for open source companies regarding community engagement, transparency, and balancing commercial interests.
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College of Doctoral StudiesDBA-835 Integrated Case Study.docxtarifarmarie
College of Doctoral Studies
DBA-835 Integrated Case Study
In this course, you will interact with Part III of a multi-year, integrated case study experience. This part of the case study focuses on economic issues and related ethical decisions.
The Case
Purple Cloud was founded 15 years ago and has grown from a start-up security company to a small, but well-respected competitor in the rapidly growing security sector. The founder, A. Nathan Tecnoti, is a visionary leader who forecasted the need to develop robust software products that protected both individuals and companies. As the Internet grew, so did Tecnoti’s business. He innovated rapidly, but Tecnoti could not keep up with the ever-changing technologies and was often outmaneuvered by larger companies who had larger and more proficient technical staffs and marketing budgets. Tecnoti began seeking a way to accelerate product development so he could increase market share and take advantage of new market opportunities. It is for this reason that Tecnoti developed an acquisition strategy to rapidly acquire companies that offered promising security technologies.
Invoking that strategy, Purple Cloud acquired ABCTech during a positive economic outlook. Video press coverage of this event can be viewed at https://lc.gcumedia.com/mgt805/business-acquisition-press-release-video/v1.1/. The ABCTech product acquired by Purple Cloud was completely different than any other software security application offered in the market. The product offered an elegant solution implemented with a single update to the user's computer operating system thereby bypassing the need to distribute daily updates to address new security threats. The simplicity of the solution circumvented both the necessity to acquire capital to build or acquire extensive infrastructure and the requisite addition of high-priced support staff. Nonetheless, the company now has approximately 200 employees, about 40% of which are full-time.
Purple Cloud has survived the economic downturn of a few years ago and, in fact, experienced a resurgence on the cybersecurity front since many people feared the vulnerability of personal information located online. Despite transforming this $40 million company into a $100 million organization with a current stock price of 71, the executives still feel it is necessary to safeguard their long-term investment as they look toward a more sustainable future. The uncertainty surrounding how Purple Cloud will approach sustainability has led Chris Christianson, one of the co-founders of ABCTech, to have his company shares bought out stating that he is uncomfortable with the current forecasting. When asked about his departure, Christianson said,
It has been a long time coming. I was new to running a business, and as long as I was able to see where the company was going and growing, I was willing to stay. Recently, it just was not fun for me anymore. So, I am stepping down to allow the Purple Cloud leadership to replace.
Social Approaches to Funding and Lending, Crowd FundingJay van Zyl
Social Approaches to Funding, Crowd Funding:
1. PFM and financial management tools
2. Open innovation models
3. P2P and other models to funding and lending
This landscape gives a perspective on the overlapping approaches to funding companies and projects in the social world.
Dr. Jay van Zyl
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Presented at Executive Leaders Network CMO/DPO/CIO/CISO Event on October 06th.
"How Haleon have established a software-defined lifecycle that decreases the effort required for build and integration. Making new features, bug fixes, experiments, configuration changes always ready for deployment to a production environment."
This document discusses myths and realities around corporate use and compliance with open source software. It summarizes that while some myths suggest companies only use open source for free software and do not comply with licenses or contribute back, the reality is that many companies invest heavily in open source compliance programs and processes. It also notes that many companies actively contribute back to open source communities and foundations.
The fastest moving enterprises share one thing in common: They don’t let today’s technology slow down tomorrow’s innovations. With first-hand insights from Jeff Sutherland, technology innovation expert, this slideshow discusses:
- Overcoming legacy ERP and CRM system roadblocks
- Never building anything twice at your organization
- Creating a feedback culture to spur innovation
**Download report: Gartner 2015 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Platform as a Service (aPaaS)
Download this report to better understand the aPaaS landscape and how the right platform can accelerate your software delivery cadence and capacity.
http://ww2.mendix.com/gartner-magic-quadrant-q1-2015.html
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mendix
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mendix
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OpenChain Webinar #56: Generative AI and Your CodeShane Coughlan
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Maximizing the Opportunity While Managing the Risks
This webinar had a poll about areas of interest around AI and law. Click here to access it:
https://forms.office.com/r/MaZFgHuH6v
About This Webinar
Generative AI (GAI) provides powerful opportunities for innovation and productivity across all organizational functions – from composing emails and crafting press releases to retouching and refining images and video, all this in seconds. GAI tools can even be used to write, test and improve computer code! This comes with risks that need to be managed within your organization, in order to realize the competitive advantage these GAI tools can provide.
In this webinar, Anthony Decicco and Wael Nackasha, attorneys at GTC Law Group:
- Provide an introduction to GAI and its use to generate software code, text, and images
- Explain how machines learn, including training data and the resulting models
- Cover how developers are using GAI tools (such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT) to write and augment source code, with a focus on:
-- A ‘demo’ of how the tools work
-- The community reactions and recent litigation
-- The benefits and risks of the tools
-- Ways to mitigate the risks
-- Best practices for policies and procedures
Scrum, XP, and Kanban have been proven to provide step changes in productivity and quality for software teams. However, these methods do not have the native constructs necessary to scale to challenges of building enterprise class software systems. What the industry desperately needs is a solution that moves from a set of simplistic, disparate, development-centric methods, to a scalable, unified approach that addresses the complex constructs and additional stakeholders in the organization- and enables realization of enterprise-class product or service initiatives via aligned and cooperative solution development.
In this talk, Dean Leffingwell describes how to accomplish this with the Scaled Agile Framework, a publicly - accessible knowledge base of proven Lean and Agile practices for enterprise-class software development. He approaches the problem from the perspectives of Lean thinking and principles of product development flow, illustrating how these core principles help deliver business results at scale, while keeping the development system - and the enterprise - lean and responsive to rapidly changing market needs. And since winning is more fun, he’ll also describe some of the personal benefits that come when teams master the art of delivering better enterprise-class software, at an ever faster pace.
Individual Project I-3
1. Title
Technology Innovation Project
2. Introduction
Background of the Corporation
Largo Corporation is a major multinational conglomerate corporation which specializes in a wide array of products and services. These products and services include healthcare, finance, retail, government services, and many more. The annual revenue is about $750 million and it has about 1,000 employees. The parent company is located in Largo, Maryland and its subsidiaries are headquartered throughout the United States.
The mission of the corporation is to bring the best products and services to people and businesses throughout the world so they can then realize their full potential.
The corporate vision guides every aspect of their business to achieve sustainable, quality growth:
Productivity: Be a highly effective, lean and fast-moving organization.
People: Be a great place to work where people are inspired to achieve their maximum potential.
Partners: Nurture a winning network of customers and suppliers, together we create mutual, enduring value.
Responsible: Be a responsible citizen that makes a difference through ethical behavior.
Revenue: Maximize long-term return while being mindful of our overall responsibilities.
The company’s culture is reflected in their corporate values:
Leadership: Courage to shape a better future.
Collaboration: Leverage collective intelligence.
Accountability: Own up to your responsibility.
Passion: Committed to excellence.
Diversity: Provide new perspectives into our business.
Quality: We will want quality as part of our brand.
The corporation consists of the parent company and the following subsidiaries:
Healthcare – Suburban Independent Clinic, Inc. (medical services)
Finance – Largo Capital (financial services)
Retail – Rustic Americana (arts and crafts), Super-Mart (office products)
Government Services – Government Security Consultants (information security)
Automotive – New Breed (electric cars)
Systems Integration –
Solution
s Delivery, Inc. (communications)
Media Design – Largo Media (website and app design)
The organization is headed by CEO Tara Johnson who completed her Master’s degree at UMUC and eager to make worthwhile improvements to the corporation. She rose through the ranks of Largo Corporation starting with systems integration, then retail and her last position before becoming CEO was in finance.
The corporation is in a highly competitive environment so the CEO wants savvy employees at many levels to make wise judgments and take an aggressive approach and deliver results towards improving the bottom line yet maintaining corporate social responsibility.
Corporate Issues
Ms. Johnson is very concerned about the outlook of her company. Revenues recently declined and she felt that the organization needed a transformation for the company to do well over the long term. In thumbing through some readings she was inspired when she uncovered the following:
We live in a business world acceler.
In September, I presented the Lima Consulting Group Digital Transformation Maturity Model to the closed-circuit television to Sanofi employees in the Americas. Here's the material!
CEO / CXO Architecture - The missing piece in your BI&A architectureCorporater
Most CEOs and CXOs are not happy with the BI&A initiatives. There is an apparent gap between what insights/information the top management needs from IT, and what is delivered. In this presentation, you will get critical insights into what a BI&A architecture should contain in order to close this gap.
This presentation will help you understand the specific core building blocks needed to reach business outcomes, and how the BI&A architecture can serve this purpose – all viewed from a CEO/CXO’s perspective.
The Telephone And Telegraph CorporationLori Gilbert
The document discusses the merger between Dixons Retail and Carphone Warehouse to form Dixons Carphone plc in August 2014. The merger combined two of the largest electrical retailers and services companies in the UK market. Both companies had seen falling margins in recent years. After several meetings, the companies agreed to a £3.8 billion "merger of equals" that created an electrical retailer selling a wide range of products from phones to fridges along with support services. The merger has helped the combined company gain more profit than the two companies achieved separately. Dixons Carphone plc now employs over 40,000 people across 9 countries in Europe.
This document discusses how an agile transformation can be self-funding through an incremental, evolutionary approach. It advocates bootstrapping agile practices internally by taking iterative approaches to implementing processes. This allows benefits to be realized early on, which can then be reinvested to further the transformation. It provides an example of a company that transitioned to agile in this way, initially implementing practices like Scrum and XP on their own and seeing improvements that enabled continued training investments over time.
A tale of two cities: Merging Yahoo and Aol’s open source programsAshley Wolf
Every company needs to address how they manage open source. Verizon Media is the merger of Yahoo and AOL, and those two companies ran their open source programs quite differently. The result of bringing them together was surprisingly good, but the process to get there offers many insights into how you can structure your open source program office to address the biggest problems you may face.
Ashley Wolf and Gil Yehuda explain how Verizon Media now addresses license compliance, community management, the publication process, and how to run a program office at scale. You’ll explore real-world examples of things that worked well and things that needed much repair—as well as details on how it was done—and get advice on how to apply these lessons to your businesses.
Neglecting your open source program leads to problems. Ashley and Gil highlight some big ones, like when the wrong people have access to your code, license issues get you in hot water, and employees make well-meaning but incorrect decisions about code publications. Sometimes it takes a revolution to force you to step back and get a better hold on your open source program. But you don’t have to wait for a merger to force the changes. Better to set the processes right starting today; Ashley and Gil show you how.
If you don’t have a formal open source program office, or if you have one that needs a boost with some new ideas about how to maximize your value to the company, join this talk.
Augmented reality is rapidly bringing the physical and digital worlds closer. While this can create value for businesses, it also means new challenges such as who owns augmented spaces that government and businesses need to work together to regulate. https://deloi.tt/2YwQKXe
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Organizational Design Scaling in Retail [Agile, Lean]Laszlo Szalvay
Massage Envy Franchising, LLC (MEF, Franchisor) lacks an effective goto market for new multi-unit Massage Envy Franchisees. These are my thoughts on that topic.
Proposed Title Fear and Loathing in Agility: Long Live the Accounting Departm...Laszlo Szalvay
"A dead ScrumMaster is a useless ScrumMaster,” echo the votary of Ken Schwaber (Co-Founder of Scrum) folklore. In this session hosted by Pat Reed (Agile Alliance Board Member) and Laszlo Szalvay (Executive at SolutionsIQ) we will explore how and why the accounting department needs to be your biggest champion as you embark on your next agile transformation. Pat and Laszlo will walk through concrete steps and real world examples of how capitalization works with Scrum and what you need to tell the accountants so they don’t shoot you.
So don’t end up a dead ScrumMaster.
Creating Environments for Innovation to Flourish discusses key principles for fostering innovation. It outlines a 5 step guide: [1] become a learning organization by solving problems; [2] retain intrinsically motivated employees through slack and bottom-up ownership; [3] implement community architecture using open source principles; [4] have a clear executive vision through techniques like vision sessions; and [5] use user stories to articulate requirements. The document emphasizes that innovation emerges from diverse, self-organizing teams when given autonomy, motivation, and opportunities to learn and improve.
This document outlines an agenda for an executive team presentation focusing on developing features for the second half of 2013. It includes several group exercises:
1. Listing potential new features on sticky notes and organizing them into themes.
2. Individual and group dot voting to rank features by perceived customer benefit.
3. Relative sizing and ROI calculation to estimate effort and organizational prioritize the backlog of features.
The presentation aims to have an interactive and hands-on discussion of real product needs and develop an agreed upon prioritized backlog for upcoming development.
1) The document provides an overview of CollabNet's agile transformation strategy and services. It discusses CollabNet's background and industry recognition. It also outlines common challenges faced by clients before adopting agile and typical results achieved after engaging CollabNet for agile transformations.
2) The document covers CollabNet's approach to agile adoption, which includes identifying pilot projects, establishing communities of practice, formalizing processes, and scaling agile enterprise-wide. It also discusses key phases in the pathway to becoming an agile enterprise.
3) Case studies are presented on agile transformations achieved with clients such as Deutsche Post, DHL, Amdocs, Nokia, and Intel that resulted in
The Secret Sauce for Innovation (longform) Laszlo Szalvay
Laszlo Szalvay is a business leader, entrepreneur and industry expert of implementing Scrum and Agile-based practices for global IT organizations. Though his experience, he has identified five practical steps that every organization should adopt and make part of their DNA. At Agile Brazil 2012 Szalvay will outline the process of combining Agile concepts with a new approach to innovation that organizations can use to create surprising breakthroughs in new product creation and development. Using a wide range of real-world examples, interactive exercises and an engaging discussion style, Szalvay will provide every participant with useful insights that can be immediately applied to re-invigorate and nourish product innovation.
Agile 2012 Conference briefing deck for Analyst and Press Laszlo Szalvay
This is the CollabNet briefing deck that was used at the Agile 2012 tradeshow. It features updates from our thought leaders books, our Products (ScrumWorks Pro 7.0 release) and our new messaging around Enterprise Cloud Development (ECD).
Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile Transformation Strategy - China 2012 Laszlo Szalvay
This is a seminar I gave throughout China the week of Oct 29th 2012. It covers the topics of Agile Software Development (Scrum, Lean, XP) and the new framework of Enterprise Cloud Development that CollabNet has been socializing. Please contact me for similar private talks at your company.
This document discusses strategic vision and Scrum. It notes that strategic vision is important for knowing organizational initiatives, defending product direction, fostering collaboration, and delighting users. It provides techniques for creating and fostering vision, including executive vision sessions, story mapping, walking skeletons, and epic budgeting. The document also provides background on CollabNet, a company that provides tools for agile development and source code management.
Making Scrum Work Inside Small Businesses Laszlo Szalvay
This document discusses how entrepreneurs can benefit from using Scrum. It recommends that entrepreneurs incorporate a culture of learning and questioning, use both qualitative and quantitative metrics like cash on hand and number of happy customers and employees, and do Scrum at the organizational level across functions like marketing, sales, and executives. Adopting these agile practices can help entrepreneurs build learning organizations that continuously solve problems and adapt.
The Secret Sauce for Innovation (shortform) Laszlo Szalvay
The document summarizes Laszlo Szalvay's presentation on innovation and agility at Agile Brazil 2012. It discusses how organizations can become more innovative through adopting an agile mindset. The presentation covers 5 steps for organizations: 1) become a learning organization, 2) focus on employee retention, 3) implement community architecture, 4) have a clear executive vision, and 5) use user stories to articulate requirements. The goal is to help organizations innovate through increased agility.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
A Mix Chart displays historical data of numbers in a graphical or tabular form. The Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart specifically shows the results of a sequence of numbers over different periods.
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
What is an RPA CoE? Session 1 – CoE VisionDianaGray10
In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
Topics covered:
• The role of a steering committee
• How do the organization’s priorities determine CoE Structure?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
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Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
I would argue that introducing compliance only complicates this issue.
“Scaling is the last thing you should do” – Bas Vodde, Craig Larman, Martin Fowler, Jeff Sutherland, Ken Schwaber
I would argue that introducing compliance only complicates this issue.
“Scaling is the last thing you should do” – Bas Vodde, Craig Larman, Martin Fowler, Jeff Sutherland, Ken Schwaber
Before we started, Dan asked me, what's the point here. It's good / great to review that - here's why we are here.
The intersection is workflow management. Often multiple regulations at play just with one team or division. When you scale that the problem grows exponentially. [laz to show one team, then then, then 250)
Developers need to do their work. GRC often tells us how to work and it's never optional - it's required that's why its a regulation.
We need to respect both and find a happy medium. I think I've found a way.
We'll talk through some examples
More often than not Dev's are interested in their work product.
Auditors are interested in the documentation around that work product. This type of relationship isnt unique (You and your CPA)
Discuss the History of when I started in 2004 looking for candidates for the AOC project. Only 40 resumes in Dice.com with the term Scrum
Agile isn't going anywhere. It's hot, and it's how your engineers want to work. Finland is always ahead of technical trends – not sure why. But when I visited their largest SI, a company called Tieto, back in 2010 there CIO simply called it the “modern way to work”
Is the Open Source model of working good? Does it produce results?
Wikipedia?
Subversion
Elaborate our services and product offerings
Gmail was invented during 20% time
http://www.mas.gov.sg/index.html (Monetary Authority of Singapore)
Former solution was from a proven vendor in the industry and we knew it had audit proof controls, but by the time CollabNet came in, we realized that (former solution) was much less cost effective. CollabNet was three times more cost-effective. We did an actual ROI study with Forrester, and over a three-year period, CollabNet was one third the cost, including the rollout of all these applications and maintenance costs.
CollabNet was a much less complicated solution, was much more graceful to meet our needs, easier to administer, and easier for developers to train up and to use.
The solution also included collaboration capabilities.
The solution was more flexible.
Instead of a one-size-fits-all solution, we could, for more risk-averse platforms, have a thicker process with more controls; and for platforms that needed to be more agile, we could have a more agile process.