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How to Encourage Team Innovation in the Tech Workplace

It’s been more than 10 years since Gartner reported that between 60 and 80 percent of all IT budgets were being spent on simply “keeping the lights on,” and according to a new report from OutSystems, this is still very much the case today.

The low-code development platform company released their 2019 State of Application Development Report earlier this week, and their findings, reached with the insight of more than 3,300 IT professionals in the app development space, “broadly concur with industry analyst reports which estimate that ‘keeping the lights on’ activities consume around 75 percent of most IT organizations’ resources.”

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This TED Talk Will Singlehandedly Change Your Career

Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston, where she teaches and studies what the above TED Talk is all about – how we can all overcome our innately human fear of vulnerability so that we can truly lead our best lives.

Now, I’m sure you’re wondering what this has to do with DZone, since it’s obviously not overtly tech related. But it just so happens that tech companies from all over the world pay Dr. Brown a whole lot of money to advise them on building cultures where innovation can thrive.

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You Should Actually Be Listening to Metal When You Code

We already know that listening to music while you work can make you a better programmer, or at least a more focused one. And while everyone's tastes are unique and valid, trust me on this one, heavy metal can give you everything you need when it comes to work music. 

JetBrains' developer survey found that only 17 percent of you listen to heavy metal while coding, but that number should be much, much higher. Well, if you want to be more productive, that is.