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6 ways you’re failing at change management

CIO

Instead, they should consider partnering with experts who practice change management for a living, Hafez advises. You wouldnt hire someone who doesnt know how to write code to develop your software, so why would you expect a project manager or business analyst to drive change management?

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Software project management challenges — and how to handle them

CIO

Creating and maintaining an agile culture While adopting agile makes sense for software development at many organizations, it can come with hurdles. The intersection of agile software development practices and ‘traditional’ project management remains a challenge for many organizations,” Chowning says. “By

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Turing books $87M at a $1.1B valuation to help source, hire and manage engineers remotely

TechCrunch

It covers some 100 technologies and 15 job titles currently, ranging from entry-level roles all the way up to engineering directors and CTO candidates, he said. Popular requests are for full-stack engineers, those who specialize in front-end or back-end languages, and site reliability engineers.

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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

TechEmpower CTO

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. I think that poor communication and differing team cultures might be part of the problem, but how can I know for sure? A culture of change management. It’s a good question.

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Liberis CTO Georgina Owens on the power of mentoring and apprenticeships

CIO

CIO: How has your career evolved to becoming an IT director/CIO/CTO? When you enter a class full of people in a strange country, and with a completely different culture, it can be very daunting, so you learn all sorts of techniques to survive. I am a jigsaw puzzle addict and find this to be a fabulous stress management tool.

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

I even got this particular section framed and hung up at our office: Your mission Let's say you were employed as a CTO behind the front lines and you wanted to destroy productivity for as long as you can without getting caught. Technology When joining, require a 6-18 months rewrite of core systems. Blame the previous CTO.

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Federal Big Data Community Convenes 6 Feb at Apache Hadoop Forum

CTOvision

Hadoop’s Impact on the Future of Data Management – Introduction of the Enterprise Data Hub. Mike Olson – Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera. Eli Collins – Chief Technologist, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Matt Carroll – General Manager, 42Six, a CSC Company.

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