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Latest Read: Doing Agile Right

Doing Agile Right: Transformation Without Chaos by Darrell Rigby, Sarah Elk, and Steve Berez

Doing Agile Right: Transformation Without Chaos by Darrell Rigby, Sarah Elk, and Steve Berez

Darrell holds a MBA from Harvard Business School. He is a Senior Partner at Bain & Company and is a founder and leader of Bain’s Innovation and Agile Practices. Sarah holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and is a partner at Bain & Company with a focus on agile transformations and organizational change. Steve holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and is a partner at Bain & Company specializing in technology and agile practices. As a team they provide a deep and well-rounded perspective on implementing agile methodologies while avoiding common pitfalls associated with chaotic transformations.

Agile is a project management and software development approach that emphasizes flexibility, collaboration, and customer-centricity. It breaks projects into smaller phases called sprints. This permits teams to adapt quickly to changes and deliver value faster. It certainly has the power to transform work, but only if it’s implemented the correct way.

This isn’t a product or goal in itself, it’s a means to becoming an efficient operation. This book is really a must-read for any organization making transitions. They addresses the challenges many organizations face when implementing agile methodologies. They emphasize understanding and applying agile principles effectively in order to to achieve real transformation without falling into chaos. Today this is a tall order indeed, more than ever before.

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Latest Read: Brave New Worlds

Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education by Salman Khan.

Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education by Salman Khan

Sal holds BS in both mathematics and electrical engineering from MIT. He holds a MS in electrical engineering also from MIT with a MBA from Harvard Business School. Sal founded Khan Academy after tutoring his cousin in mathematics in 2004 and launched online video tutorials in 2006.

He wrote Brave New Worlds in fact for general audiences to teach them about the AI revolution in education. He addresses the implications for parents and how to best address AI for good. Sal starts simple with ChatGPT, showing how it will transform learning. In fact, there is a roadmap addressing teachers, parents, and even students on how to engage our AI world. Sal demonstrates his AI-powered tutoring service Khanmigo which was obviously developed by Khan Academy.

Readers will also appreciate this is not an AI technology book. Sal is laying out the impact upon our society and implications from educational administrators, teachers, and guidance counselors, to hiring managers. Companies will certainly demand employees be AI aware in their education to make their workplace competitive.

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Latest Read: The DevSecOps Playbook

The DevSecOps Playbook: Deliver Continuous Security at Speed by Sean D. Mack.

The DevSecOps Playbook: Deliver Continuous Security at Speed by Sean D. Mack

Sean holds a BS in Computer and Information Sciences from UC Santa Cruz and MBA from Seattle University. He is CIO and CISO at Wiley, VP of Operations and Applications at Pearson, Director of Global Product Development and Delivery at Experian, and Senior Director of Technical Operations at RealNetworks.

In fact, the term Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps) stands for a framework that integrates security into all phases of the software development lifecycle. Today more than ever before DevSecOps must deliver continuous security at the speed of business. DevSecOps can only succeed when the organization supports the triad of people, process, and tech to delver strong cybersecurity infrastructure and practices.

To simplify, DevSecOps emphasizes incorporating security measures from the beginning of the development process, rather than treating them as an afterthought or post deployment requirement. This approach identifies and mitigates potential security risks early on.

Sean outlines why it’s critical to shift security considerations to the front-end of the development cycle, how to do this, and how the evolution of a standard security model since the pandemic has impacted modern cybersecurity.

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Latest Read: The AI-Savvy Leader

The AI-Savvy Leader: Nine Ways to Take Back Control and Make AI Work by David De Cremer.

The AI-Savvy Leader: Nine Ways to Take Back Control and Make AI Work by David De Cremer

David holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Southampton, UK. He is Dean of Northeastern University’s School of Business, and the previous chair in management studies at the University of Cambridge UK. He is also a visiting professor at London Business School and China Europe International Business School.

In addition, David is the founder of the Erasmus Behavioral Ethics Centre at the Rotterdam School of Management. He remains an honorary fellow at Cambridge Judge Business School and a fellow at St. Edmunds college, Cambridge University. He is also a research member of The Justice Collaboratory at Yale’s Law School.

David is pulling no punches on his predictions that AI will transform society including organizational leadership. However his focus is on a human-centered approach to AI leadership. His position for leaders: emphasize ethical and strategic integrations of AI into their organizations. If not, AI will get the best of you. There is plenty of recent data to back up his claims.

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Latest Read: AI at the Edge

AI at the Edge: Solving Real-World Problems with Embedded Machine Learning by Daniel Situnayake and Jenny Plunkett.

AI at the Edge: Solving Real-World Problems with Embedded Machine Learning by Daniel Situnayake and Jenny Plunkett

Jenny holds BS in Electrical Engineering in from the University of Texas at Austin. She is a senior developer relations engineer at Edge Impulse. Daniel is Director of ML at Edge Impulse and holds a BSc Computer Networks and Security from Birmingham City University. He is the former Developer Advocate at Google for TensorFlow Lite.

This book is a guide to exploring how machine learning is being implemented on both edge devices and embedded systems. A bit of caution however, both authors are at Edge Impluse and their company product is referenced.

While not surprising, it can be viewed as a marketing product rather than addressing market leading solutions. The target audience is engineering professionals, including product managers and technology leaders.

We continue to deploy Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Many readers will think thermostats like Google Nest and X. However this focus is on industrial, automation, healthcare, agriculture, and autonomous vehicle devices which brings a lot of real-time data and machine learning driven decision-making at the remote device location. It is a very fast paced environment.

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