TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2021

Oren Yunger is an investor at GGV Capital , where he leads the cybersecurity vertical and drives investments in enterprise IT, data infrastructure, and developer tools. Winning enterprise sales teams know how to persuade the Chief Objection Officer. In reality, compliance means that a company meets a minimum set of controls.

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CIO

JUNE 19, 2024

Three years ago BSH Home Appliances completely rearranged its IT organization, creating a digital platform services team consisting of three global platform engineering teams, and four regional platform and operations teams. We see this as a strategic priority to improve developer experience and productivity,” he says.

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CIO

JUNE 20, 2024

As SVP and CTO for the Boston Red Sox, Brian Shield is responsible for the strategic direction of technology, fan engagement, day-to-day IT operations, and cybersecurity in support of the team, their fans, and Fenway Sports Management. Any successful team starts with cultivating the right talent, whether that’s in baseball or in IT.

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OverOps

MARCH 18, 2019

We hop on a war-room conference call that includes developers, Ops and executives, all trying to figure out what happened and how to handle the situation. The right person from the right team can be aware of what happened and how much they spent in regarding to this single issue, but what about the elements that lay beneath the surface?

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The Crazy Programmer

AUGUST 22, 2021

Getting more for less – these four words describe the main reason why companies opt for hiring remote developers. First of all, in-person meetings are off the table. So, how do you hire dedicated development team you won’t regret working with down the road? What are your budget constraints? What’s your timeline?

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

Kent Beck concluded , Measure developer productivity? He says a measurement based approach generates relatively weak improvements and significant distortion of incentives. If you did this exercise with your leadership team, youd probably get different answers. We use Extreme Programming as our model of how to develop software.

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CIO

MAY 6, 2024

We sought technology leaders who could advise on succeeding fast, along with creating a strong organization, developing team leaders, leveraging the support of peers, and specifically how to streamline day-to-day management of a technology group. Bad hires happen, and sometimes, promotions don’t work out.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The team at Tuff knows their stuff — and it’s precisely why they are not selling “magic” or any kind of “mysterious secret sauce.” ” This doesn’t necessarily involve offline meetings: Oehlerking and Jantsch are both based in Colorado, but Tuff’s team is fully remote, with global clients.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Years ago, Will Allred and William Ballance were developing a tech platform, Sorter, to apply personality and communication psychology to marketing campaigns. Just as Sorter was heading to market, the pandemic hit — and marketing budgets froze. “In today’s climate, teams have to do more with less.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Poor execution Even the best plans can fail if execution is poor. This may require hiring outside experts and/or investing in training and development for existing staff. This may require hiring outside experts and/or investing in training and development for existing staff.

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CIO

AUGUST 8, 2024

Organizations spend an average of 30% of their IT budgets and investing on technical debt management. First, provide opportunities for internal team members to work on innovative projects for exposure and experience to advance their career. Second: use contract talent to support your core team as needed.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The company, in a statement, said it will use the capital “to expand its multi-channel service capacity, engineering team, and marketing budget for B2C acquisition.”. So what we did was create a network of vetted technicians across 35 states out in Nigeria to tackle the poor vehicle maintenance culture in Nigeria,” he said. “We

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Gorilla Logic

MARCH 17, 2023

Have you ever been part of a team where tickets are hard to understand or don’t supply enough detail for the team to properly work? Experiences like these make many developers think about using Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). Know your team members You work with your team every day and know them well.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Such conversations … should conclude with clear actions, benefits, timelines, and the budget and resources required to close gaps.” Venables recommends that modernization conversations should be held in boardrooms, executive leadership meetings, and business unit–specific strategy sessions. What would be the next steps?

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Apiumhub

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

If you’ve been a part of any software development project, you know things don’t always go as planned. And in Apiumhub we believe that the best way to work through what happened during an incident and capture any lessons learned is by conducting a software development project postmortem. Was there a budget overrun?

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Evolution4all

AUGUST 5, 2018

Agile asks for cross-functional teams, and therefore companies start to build teams around different people with different skills within the organisation. The team in this situation is a bunch of individuals from different parts of the organisation that are brought together to deliver something. Blame Culture.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 8, 2016

No matter how wonderful you are, I guarantee you, your team is talking about you (in some way that would surprise you) too. As we dig in, he’s never that bad. A little bit of quality leadership development is worth the investment. And chances are you haven’t told them. Here’s the real deal. How do I know this?

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CIO

AUGUST 23, 2022

Being efficient means producing high-quality, sustainable, and expected outcomes on time and on budget, says Christopher Kowalsky, an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. They trust their leadership team. They plan meetings for maximum effectiveness.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

When it hits your inbox, click this right away , because someone is about to catch a falling rocket with a helicopter and it’s the single-most A-Team meets MacGyver thing we could imagine. . Glamping may not be so bad with this at your campsite : A battery the size of a cooler, that has wheels, plugs and air conditioning?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

After attending TechCrunch Early Stage last week, I was cheered to meet so many first-time founders and experienced investors who are looking for opportunities. But dealmaking is idiosyncratic: a few investors might be content to make a deal over coffee, but early-stage teams still need a sturdy pitch deck or memo they can leave behind.

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CIO

JANUARY 19, 2023

Schneider Electric’s IT organization achieved that goal by reducing the layers for technology- and budget-related approvals, and by trusting managers and staff to make as many of those decisions as possible within the company’s “delegation of authority pathways” framework.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2023

But the CTO and co-founder says that scaling to meet that demand presents its own challenges, which require self-reflection. Most departments try to have employees work a day or two in the office and schedule weekly team meetings in person if they are close to a physical location. How do we grow our business responsibly?”

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CIO

JULY 24, 2024

According to IDC’s April 2024 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 4 , companies are increasingly allocating budgets to explore technologies like generative AI, with 53% increasing IT budgets and 30% shifting budgets from digital transformation. Invest in infrastructure and resources to support growth.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

In addition to building a team and raising funds, they must also quickly become familiar with basic business operations. In a comprehensive TC+ article, Slidebean co-founder and CEO Jose Cayasso shows how to create spreadsheets that will help scale teams, track expenses, identify KPIs and “understand how fast your company can grow.”

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CIO

JULY 28, 2023

The ability to pivot fast and hyperfocus are strengths, not weaknesses, and a leader that can do both effectively is an asset, not a liability. Being nimble is a huge benefit in a CTO’s daily life, where back-to-back meetings can range from discussing budgets, to having 1:1s, to solving technical challenges.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 16, 2014

Jennifer encourages leaders to give some thought to career conversations they have with their team. Too little thought and planning can lead to not only an unproductive meeting, but potential loss of a star performer. It’s one thing to have a bad day, yet another to fall on tough times. Follow Jennifer @JenniferVMiller.

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CIO

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Asking your team to be innovative is like asking an athlete to play better. As a result, with R&D type projects, ROI can’t be reliably calculated; deliverables, other than status and budget reports, can’t be predicted; and total cost to implementation can’t be effectively estimated. Build an innovation pipeline.

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CIO

JULY 18, 2023

The key to maintaining high-performing IT teams is to motivate them through challenging and interesting work — and, at the same time, assure they are rewarded and recognized for their achievements. At the same time, some of us must be developed to step into management roles oftentimes outside our comfort zone.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

While organizations continue to discover the powerful applications of generative AI , adoption is often slowed down by team silos and bespoke workflows. As a result, building such a solution is often a significant undertaking for IT teams. It also contains observability components for cost tracking, budgeting, auditing, logging, etc.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

This resulting plan is created by the collaborative work of the entire Scrum Team.”. The Guide goes on to say that the team is expected to cover three topics: Why is the Sprint Valuable? So let’s peek in on our World’s Smallest Online Bookstore team that you’ll recall from other blog posts. What can be Done this Sprint?

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CIO

JULY 23, 2024

Are agile teams overly stressed with too many priorities? This included systems that, developed in Cobol, connected private information from a “dizzying number of agencies” — which is why the Government Accountability Office in 2019 flagged it as among the 10 systems most in need of modernization.

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CIO

JUNE 20, 2024

Your team expects you to lead. Other leaders are evaluating whether they can trust you to help them meet their goals. And you know how hard it can be to recover from a bad first impression. Listen to your peers, team members, external customers, and partners. It’s about the team. A team helps you summit Everest.

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CIO

AUGUST 16, 2024

Load a smart read onto your phone or e-reader or crack the spine of a new book and delve into some thought leadership on everything from leading an amazing team to building a productive company culture to reaching for a better mindset for guiding your organization forward. They returned home to found the SEAL leadership training team. “It

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In our meetings with CEOs and HR directors, it is evident there is a growing concern within organizations needing to strengthen current leaders and support the bench of the future ones. Even rusty, as one-third of the organizations, would change members of their leadership team if given the opportunity. How do they affect Leadership?

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CIO

JUNE 20, 2023

According to GitLab’s 2023 Global DevSecOps Report , 56% of organizations report using DevOps or DevSecOps methodologies, growing roughly 10% from 2022, for improved security, higher developer velocity, cost and time savings, and better collaboration. What is DevSecOps?

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Datavail

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In 2001, a group of expert software developers created the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. That document started a movement in the software development world and many teams now use the Agile software development approach. What is Agile Software Development? Benefits of Agile Software Development.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

” To help entrepreneurs take on the most fundamental challenge facing early-stage startups, our team is speaking to growth marketers to learn more about the advice they’re offering clients these days. Draft.dev CEO Karl Hughes on the importance of using experts in developer marketing. There’s just one requirement.

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