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Tips to Improve Your Negotiating Skills

Most people think they don’t know how to negotiate, but the reality is that you are already a negotiator. Nearly every day, you carry out negotiations with people in your personal and professional life. A few tips might help you get better at it and feel more confident doing it.

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Naomi Karten
Your Team Is Agile! What about Your Business Model?

Getting your software development team to be agile is a big step, but for a complete organizational transformation, the work doesn't end there. You may be surprised to find out where else agile can be implemented to streamline processes and eliminate what's holding your business back.

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Noel Wurst
Apple Maps: Disaster or Simple Mistake?

When Tim Cook issued a public apology over the release of Apple Maps, critics were quick to jump on Apple. Joe Townsend looks at the long-term impact of the release of Apple Maps and whether it will go down in history as a disaster or a simple mistake.

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Joe Townsend
DevOps and the US Presidential Election

Incidents involving voter machine software glitches are raising concerns that some voting machines may be rigged during the upcoming US presidential election. In once such incident, a voting machine company could have learned a lesson on the DevOps approach to improved communications.

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Bob Aiello
Malware VoIP Attack Roundup—Skype and Callcentric

Recently, two of the most well-known VoIP providers—Skype and Callcentric—acknowledged problems with their service because of malware attacks. Pamela Rentz details the attacks and what the service providers are doing to resolve the issues.

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Pamela Rentz
An Interview with Mobile Testing Expert Karen N. Johnson

An independent software test consultant and a frequent speaker at software conferences, Karen N. Johnson is a mobile testing expert. In this exclusive Q&A, Karen shares her thoughts on mobile app testing, the latest testing trends, data warehousing, and other topics.

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Mike Brown
The Biggest Cyber Hacks in Recent Weeks

In this roundup of the biggest cyber hacks in recent weeks, we learn that pacemakers could potentially be set to kill, the UK will not be extraditing an alleged hacker to the US, and Islamist hacktivists are at it again with another take-down of a major bank’s website.

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Jonathan Vanian
Improving Your Measurements to Influence Behavior

Measuring things is easy, but measuring the right things and acting appropriately based on what you have measured is hard. What you do with measurements can influence behavior, so it’s worth putting some thought into what you measure.

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Steve Berczuk