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Why You Should View Every New Workplace Challenge as a Confidence Booster New challenges can certainly be rich learning opportunities, whether or not the effort is a success as anticipated. It's time to view every new challenge as an opportunity to boost confidence. You certainly won't lose—you only stand to gain with this approach. |
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Contemplating What Constitutes an Organizational CrisisIt can be hard to envision what would constitute a crisis for your organization until you’re facing one. But defining what events could be disastrous for your company is the first step toward planning for them—and having an emergency plan could be the difference that helps you respond in time. | 
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Container-Based Deployments and the Future of IT OperationsContainer-based deployments have become the preferred approach for managing the build and release of complex applications. Many of the tasks handled by IT operations today may not be necessary in the world of containers. Will Ops continue in its current role, or will it need to evolve with the new challenges? | 
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3 Steps to Nurture IoT Development and Testing As more devices connect to the Internet and engage in machine-to-machine communication, QA management must cultivate an understanding of the IoT and how to create software for these connected items. Sanjay Zalavadia describes three steps to nurture IoT development and testing. |
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How Test Automation Can Help Your Business Test automation is much more than just the specific tools, frameworks, or programming languages that allow it to improve the overall quality of your software. You need to go a level above the technical terminology to understand the value of test automation. |
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The Art of Giving Feedback Your Team Will Act OnGiving good feedback is hard. A common pattern we follow—especially when we have to give negative feedback—is starting with something positive, addressing the problem, and ending with something else positive. But it turns out this "feedback sandwich" method isn't the most effective. Here are some better ways. | 
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The Wisdom of a Lateral Move in Your CareerMany employees don’t view a lateral move as a step in the right direction. A career ladder, after all, is depicted as going upward, not sideways. Yet the skills learned in the new position can broaden your capabilities and expand the number of opportunities to advance. Think about the potential benefits. |
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Shake Up Your Software Processes: The Intermediate Disturbance HypothesisOrganizations that refuse to change will get left behind. But at the other end of the spectrum, too much change is also harmful. Revamping everything you do at once creates stress and can lead to your efforts failing. The right balance is shaking things up just often enough to experiment with new ideas. | 
Matt Heusser |