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Spring Now Offers Free Access for the Spring Academy Pro Content
The Spring team has announced that the Pro Content from their Spring Academy will no longer require a paid subscription to improve the learning experience for the Spring community. The Spring Academy will continue to provide new content in the future.
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Microsoft Enhances Azure Learning with Learn Rooms
Microsoft recently announced a new offering for learning Azure with Learn Rooms, a part of the Microsoft Learn community designed to allow learners to connect with other learners and technical experts with similar interests in Azure.
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Creating Environments High in Psychological Safety with a Combined Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approach
Leadership is critical for making psychological safety happen, but they need to lead by example and show that it’s safe for people to take interpersonal risks. Complementing leadership with team workshops in communication skills can enable people to speak up and feel safe to fail.
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Effective Retrospectives Require Skilled Facilitators
Retrospective facilitators can develop their facilitation skills by self-study and training, and by doing retrospectives. Better retrospective facilitation can lead to higher effectiveness of change and impact the progress of an organization.
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The Journey of Going Back to Testing after Being a Testing Manager
Returning to testing after having become a test manager can be challenging. For Julia María Durán Muñoz it meant finding a company that appreciated her experience and recognized her desire and ability to do technical work. It can help to get training to update your knowledge, refresh your technical skills, and practice your skills before starting interviews.
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The Path to a Staff-Plus Engineer Role: from Management Back to Tech
When working in tech, a managerial career may not be for you. Fabiane Bizinella Nardon went from being a manager back to tech, becoming a staff plus engineer and creating a staff plus friendly company. She presented A CTO That Still Codes: My Tortuous Path to the Staff Plus Engineer Role at QCon London 2022 and will present at QCon Plus May 10-20, 2022.
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Becoming a Staff Plus Engineer: Leadership and Communication Training Matters
The poor industry support for engineers who want to pursue a technical career affects them; many outstanding technical individuals find themselves forced to seek a management position. The path to a staff plus engineer role is not straightforward. Training on leadership and communication for staff plus engineers can help them to become a better tech leader.
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Improving Gender Inclusion by Using Agile Principles
Pakistan is behind with regards to gender inclusion in technology; however, coding boot camps are helping women to get jobs and become financially independent. Faiza Yousuf, a product management expert and community leader, spoke about how she uses agile principles for improving gender inclusion at Agile 2021.
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Experiences from Having Developers Write E2E Tests
Developers writing e2e tests can make code testable, provide fast feedback, and prevent bugs. Wix worked with their product managers, developers, and QA engineers to transition from QA-only testing, to having developers write e2e tests to shift QA left and deliver faster.
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Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning Engineer Certification Now in Beta
Google Cloud has added a Beta version of a new Professional-level certification to their available paths. The Professional Machine Learning Engineer certification exam will assess candidates' knowledge of machine learning practices and implementation on the Google Cloud Platform.
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A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: DevOps Dojo Stories from DOES London 2020
Dojos were a popular topic at DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2020, appearing initially in Gene Kim’s opening remarks on the first day of the three-day virtual conference when he referred to Target’s dojo framework as shared in the IT Revolution Forum ebook. The concept went on to feature in talks from adidas, Virgin Atlantic, Comcast, Sky, Verizon, US Bank and Walmart.
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DevOps Dojo Provides Online, Interactive DevOps Training
DXC Technology has recently open-sourced their DevOps Dojo, a collection of learning modules that covers both the technical and cultural aspects of DevOps. The modules are built on the Katacoda platform and hosted on GitHub.
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Google Introduces TensorFlow Developer Certification
Google has launched a certification program for its deep-learning framework TensorFlow. The certification exam is administered using a PyCharm IDE plugin, and candidates who pass can be listed in Google's world-wide Certification Directory.
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CodeNode in London Relaunched by Trifork as Conference Venue
CodeNode, former host of SkillsMatter, has been bought by Trifork and will re-open its doors in London.
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Training Your Managers to Support the Mental Health of Your Team
We still do not offer clear advice for our organizations and managers on the best ways to raise awareness of and manage mental health in the workplace, according to a recent review of the literature on mental health awareness training.