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Aware of what tech debt costs them, CIOs still can’t make it an IT priority

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It’s among CIOs’ most persistent and underdiscussed challenges: embracing innovative technologies without losing sight of mounting — and potentially crippling — technical debt. The trick for CIOs who have significant tech debt is to sell it to organization leadership , he says. Talk about digital transformation.”

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2023 CIO Hall of Fame inductees on building a successful IT leadership career

CIO

“I wanted to be on the side that could influence a better decision rather than on the side lobbying for a better decision,” Loura says of his drive toward leadership. To achieve that, Loura recognized the need to give up time performing the technical work he loved to do more of that decision-making.

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7 sins of digital transformation

CIO

By focusing on technology, CIOs can deliver transitionary results, such as improving infrastructure agility by migrating to the cloud or improving user experiences by upgrading legacy systems to SaaS. There’s often ambition to address all or most problems, but that can leave the system user behind.

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13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation

CIO

It’s no secret that having the right capabilities is essential to digital success, but given the dynamic nature of digital business, these capabilities go beyond technical know-how. The market is tight, but we are not short of people with technical skills; people who can develop, build infrastructure, and understand the cloud,” says Fox.

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Update on Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

The new ladder focuses on teamwork, peer leadership, and maintainable code. This lighter-weight approach allows us to have a lot more skills, and we were hoping it would remove the bias the previous system had toward self-promotion and longevity. The other open question is whether engineers feel this system is better.

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision. Technology When joining, require a 6-18 months rewrite of core systems. Split systems along arbitrary boundaries: maximize the number of systems involved in any feature. Blame the previous CTO.

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Architecture Modernization Enabling Teams (AMET)

Strategic Tech

FThis article describes a pattern we have observed and applied in multi-team-scope architecture modernization initiatives, the Architecture Modernization Enabling Team (AMET). An AMET is a type of architecture enabling team that coordinates and upskills all teams and stakeholders in the modernization initiative.