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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

O'Reilly

This year’s growth in Python usage was buoyed by its increasing popularity among data scientists and machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) engineers. The results for data-related topics are both predictable and—there’s no other way to put it—confusing. This follows a 3% drop in 2018.

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The death of Agile?

O'Reilly

(Scrum might have been…) Agile is about getting developers in touch with the people who are the actual users and customers, regularly and repeatedly, so that the project doesn’t inevitably wander off course and produce something (in the words of Douglas Adams) “almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.”