Month: February 2023

This article is not set out to try and persuade you, the reader, that using an iterator or materialized collection will universally solve your problems. Iterator and materialized collection usage can be used to solve the scenarios that we’ll be looking at, but both will come with a different set of pros and cons that we can further explore.

The purpose of this article is to highlight scenarios based on real world experiences where an iterator or materialized collection was being misunderstood, misused, and, ultimately, leading to a pile of headaches.

People often ask me for advice when they move to a manager of managers role. This post covers ten things to consider. I’ll describe a number of things that surprised me, some skills to focus on building, and some tips for navigating this phase of your career.

Being a Director Is a Very Different Job

First of all, the move to being a director was a bigger change for me than I expected. I thought managing managers would be similar to managing engineers. That was naive.

Process: a series of actions or events performed to make something or achieve a particular result — Cambridge English Dictionary

Today, we delve into the great debate about process. Is process the solution to the chaos in organizations? A way of applying good discipline and operations to make stuff happen? Or is the process itself the problem, adding overhead and getting in the way of people doing their best work? 

Aloha, guys. Today, we will address more frequently asked questions and solve a few problems using the two-pointers technique. 

This approach is widely used in interview tasks. It is crucial to read the patterns in the condition of the problem and use them when solving it. This approach aims to create two-pointers, usually fast and slow pointers. After that, depending on the condition of the problem, we will move the fast/slow pointers.

In assessing the enterprise landscape and planning for a digital transformation (Dx) transition project, every organization will certainly focus on technology and infrastructure. Technology is, after all, inherent in the very nature of a Dx discussion. Infuture Institute recently published a study that describes the critical factors in a digital transformation (Dx), and one of the most provocative insights states that, "What we need is…the change of attitude in the approach to digital transformation — from a technological approach to the humanistic approach (human over technology, not technology over human), i.e., focus on the employees within the organization and the needs and expectations of customers and consumers."

Business managers might disagree with that conclusion, believing that if we plan appropriately for technology changes and upgrades, we will logically support the needs of the team and customers and stakeholders. But that belief is flawed. The very technology and infrastructure you are planning will be used and leveraged by people (business users, customers, suppliers, and so on). People use technology to achieve goals, monitor results, process requests, collaborate and more. 

Data governance is one of the most important undertakings for businesses today. Regulations like the GDPR and CCPA require organizations to have thorough insight and control over their data, and the costs of poor-quality information keep climbing. An effective governance strategy addresses both, but creating and implementing such a program is often easier said than done.

More than 90% of enterprise leaders plan data initiatives for the coming year, yet more than half report struggling to pull any business value from their information. Many of these companies realize the importance of data governance in achieving their goals, but their strategies frequently fall short. For many organizations, that's because they rely too heavily on manual processes.