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How to implement user story kick-offs and improve quality as a team

In part one of our series “How to improve quality as a team,” we talked about the effectiveness of adding shoulder checks to the agile development workflow and how that helps improve the overall quality of the product. This article introduces you to another fantastic exercise, you might be familiar, with called the user story kick-off. This practice helps larger teams align on more complex features, and in turn increase quality output as a team.

5 Tips: Pushing Data from a Warehouse to HubSpot

HubSpot is a customer relationship management (CRM) platform that helps you capture all of your interactions with customers and potential customers, from their first call or website visitors to their most recent purchase. With tens of thousands of users around the world, HubSpot currently owns an estimated 30 percent of the global CRM market share.

11 Free Tools to Help Your Content Marketing Strategy

Developing a content strategy might seem like a full-time job. It can be a bit daunting to a small business owner who is just starting out. The good news is, you don’t have to spend several hours every day creating new content to post on your blog or social media accounts. There are simple ways to create a content marketing strategy that works best for your business needs. However, it starts with having the right set of digital tools.

Interview with Bill Kunneke, Chief Technology Officer at Leasecake

For our latest specialist interview in our series speaking to technology leaders from around the world, we’ve welcomed Bill Kunneke, Chief Technology Officer at Leasecake. Bill has over twenty years of experience as an IT professional and a proven technical leader who delivers large and often transformative IT projects while communicating complex technical solutions to key stakeholders and executing strategic IT functions.

What are the Best ETL tools for Redshift?

So you want to move data to Amazon Redshift? You're not the only one. Every day, thousands of organizations worldwide migrate data to Redshift, which Amazon claims is the world's fastest cloud data warehouse. These organizations have one mission: To move data to Redshift so they can generate business intelligence (BI) from the latest metrics. Amazon's data warehouse makes it easy to produce metrics that power data-driven organizations like yours.

Integrating Applications Through an API-First Approach

As the enterprise IT landscape becomes larger and more complex, many organizations are finding it difficult to manage all of their systems and services. According to a study by the access management company Okta, businesses use an average of 73 different enterprise software applications — and 1 in 10 businesses use more than 200 apps. On-premise business APIs can help connect these applications, but they come with several noteworthy drawbacks.

In AI we Trust? Why we Need to Talk about Ethics and Governance (part 1 of 2)

Advances in the performance and capability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms has led to a significant increase in adoption in recent years. In a February 2021 report by IDC, they estimate that world-wide revenues from AI will grow by 16.4% in 2021 to USD $327 billion. Furthermore, AI adoption is becoming increasingly widespread and not just concentrated within a small number of organisations.