The Roanoke-Blacksburg Technology Council announced the 2016 TechNite awards finalists, and Management Stack is nominated for the Rising Star award! TechNite is an annual celebration of the the amazing achievements in technology-focused entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership across the region. Check out more about TechNite and all of the award nominees here. Thanks to the RBTC, and congrats to all the nominees! See...
"Employee engagement has become one of the most frequently cited buzzwords in the hR and l&d world, and with good reason. engaged employees are generally more productive, less likely to leave, and more aligned with, and committed to, the wider vision of the businesses in which they work. But creating a highly engaged workforce is no easy task. There is no...
When user organizations outsource business functions to a service provider, the risks of the service organization become risks of the user entities. Organizations that use service providers want to ensure the integrity and security of the system and company to which they are entrusting their data. Accordingly, user organizations are increasingly demanding that their service providers undergo an audit that...
In an article published by First Round Review (original post here), Jessica McKellar, former founder and now engineering manager at Dropbox, shares her experiences and insights on how to lead an engineering team. As with most articles on management and leadership, I read this one with an objective mind towards knowledge and kept an eye out for lessons and ideas that support...
The word fluff sometimes conjures negative feelings about marketing materials that waste your valuable time by showering you with irrelevant, insignificant, superficial information disguised as expertise and analysis. That’s not the kind of fluff I’m talking about. In this context, fluff consists of those things that make a customer’s or employee’s overall experience better, sometimes without them even being able to...
Software implementations run in virtual machines can help the virtualization of network appliances. By doing this, you can replace proprietary hardware with some more cost-efficient data center solutions. This way, IT costs can be decreased in a substantial manner. In addition, virtualizing more functions allows you to deploy more services and to integrate them quicker in your IT infrastructure. But, can...