SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

There was a lot of passion in the room last week when I presented Working with Developers at the Stubbs Precellerator. I guess it should not be a surprise that Founders have lots of challenges working with developers. But my developers want to go into way too much detail. In fact, they often don’t really understand the business.

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CIO

JUNE 11, 2024

A 1958 Harvard Business Review article coined the term information technology, focusing their definition on rapidly processing large amounts of information, using statistical and mathematical methods in decision-making, and simulating higher order thinking through applications.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

But a substantial 23% of respondents say the AI has underperformed expectations as models can prove to be unreliable and projects fail to scale. Managers tend to incentivize activity metrics and measure inputs versus outputs,” she adds. With our attention split too much, people might start making bad decisions, she adds. “It

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

In the past week, Coderhouse, a live cohort-based learning platform, and Crehana, an on-demand skills development service for the enterprise, both announced financing rounds. He believes the broadness of Coderhouse’s offering makes it “tough to define one definition for outcomes.”. We are centralizing that management for HR teams.”.

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OverOps

JULY 25, 2018

If Dev and Ops are one team, why don’t they share the same data? There’s not enough granular data to inform developers about application behavior. Data is isolated into silos across adjacent teams and management. There’s Not Enough Granular Data to Inform Developers About Application Behavior. How do you recreate it?

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

For recruiters, identifying candidates who excel in communication is criticalnot just for client-facing roles, but for fostering collaboration, solving problems, and driving innovation within teams. Key benefits of communication assessments: Improved hiring accuracy: Ensures candidates fit team dynamics.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Where Dan lost me was on point #4 – Teams Decide by Consensus. In recent months I have observed a decent amount of politically correct discourse on the topic of team building and equality. The gist of the argument seems to be that for teams to be productive, employees have to feel “empowered&# by having an equal voice.

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CIO

JUNE 20, 2024

Your team expects you to lead. 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. Don’t forget you are part of a team Your role in your team may have changed, but you are not working alone. It’s about the team.

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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Some of these things are related to cost/benefit tradeoffs, but most are about weak telemetry, instrumentation, and tooling. If you have only instrumented your software with metrics, for example, you have no way of verifying that a spike in api_requests and an identical spike in 503 errors are for the same events (i.e.,

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

I'm going to be looking at aspects like: Things to consider before building your MVP Features often overlooked when documenting an MVP for developers Understanding important metrics you want to measure Risks and challenges in developing an MVP. Have you Documented Your MVP for Your Developer s? What's going to go wrong?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

DAUs and MAUs and all those lovely metrics have risen steadily as well. Now, “automated’ writing sounds pretty bad, but only if you are still clinging to that creative instinct. The growing client list contributed to a tripled ARR over the last year.

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Altexsoft

JULY 26, 2021

But no team is perfect, as there are always some weaknesses we want to spot and fix. That’s why we need metrics. When it comes to DevOps, the metrics should suit specific practices and processes, so the progress becomes measurable. In a nutshell, DevOps stands for development and operations.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Reimagination of business processes sits at the core of digital transformation, and so, by definition, digital transformation challenges the status quo, throwing we-have-always-done-it-this-way sentiment out of the window. Poor execution Even the best plans can fail if execution is poor.

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Altexsoft

OCTOBER 21, 2022

After trying all options existing on the market — from messaging systems to ETL tools — in-house data engineers decided to design a totally new solution for metrics monitoring and user activity tracking which would handle billions of messages a day. The performance consists of two main metrics — throughput and latency.

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OverOps

JUNE 21, 2018

All of the tools here can be used to get a better understanding and more value out of your logs, but they also have their own strengths and weaknesses. More for developers and DevOps (less enterprise-y). Also for developers. Advanced analytics and machine learning for logs, metrics and external data. Complex set up.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Two and a half millennia later, we were now using the ancient basis for illness to describe employee personalities, and what we could do to better team culture in the workplace. From Myers Briggs to the DISC system, there are numerous ways and tools to distill a personality into easily identifiable metrics. Hippocrates, who?

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

DECEMBER 6, 2018

In Distributed Systems in One Lesson , developer relations leader and teacher Tim Berglund says a simple way to think about distributed systems is that they are a collection of independent computers that appears to its user as a single computer. How a technology team manages and plans for failure so a customer hardly notices it is key.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JUNE 7, 2022

When you need to scale your business, you look at the recruiting teams to bring in the talent needed for success. TTH (Time To Hire) is a metric every recruiter is familiar with. Being aware of the right metrics enables tech recruiters in streamlining and optimizing every step of the funnel to increase overall effectiveness.

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Xicom

JULY 29, 2021

But, writing the lines of code or the number of hours spent at the office is not how you evaluate the effectiveness of a software developer in doing their job. Because in today’s competitive industry, like software development, quality almost eclipses the quantity of the job done. The budget increased by 160% more than the original.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

Never oversell the company, but rather disclose all the problems and weaknesses of the organization so that the candidate can make a good decision that won’t later be unwound by inconsistent messaging or practices. In answer to your question, there are any number of diagnostic tests (personality profiles, psychological evaluations, etc.)

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Talk about this with your team, as early in the year as possible. A good example of this is how a “good&# tendency to a “ hard charger &# can turn “bad&# if you end up going overboard, getting too impatient, and steamrolling over people. Now is the time to get the team set for a fresh start. THEN , dive in.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

I seem to encounter a lot of people who want to attach a CTO label to me as I'm the only programmer on the founding team of three. I also recognize that while I am the first technologist on the team, I will not by any means be the last and I'm hoping that subsequent hires will be people I consider brighter and more talented than myself.

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CIO

OCTOBER 7, 2022

IT organizations are shifting to product-based methodologies , in which cross-functional teams made up of both tech and business pros focus on a single product or service offering. Much of a product manager’s job involves ensuring the various functions of a cross-functional team work well together. Great communication skills.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2022

IT complexity, seen in spiraling IT infrastructure costs, multi-cloud frameworks that require larger teams of software engineers, the proliferation of data capture and analytics, and overlapping cybersecurity applications, is the hallmark—and also the bane—of the modern enterprise. 73% agree that IT complexity is an organizational expense.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

APRIL 2, 2020

Is your team running so smoothly that it hums? In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Ron Lichty, discuss what makes high-performance teams versus what makes low-performance teams. Most teams already know which category they fall into, but the solution to a low-performing team isn’t always clear.

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James Shore

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

If you're using test-driven development, don't measure unit test code coverage. If you're trying to improve your team's coding and testing practices, perform root-cause analysis 1 of escaped defects, then improve your design and process to prevent that sort of defect from happening again. James Shore/Blog. What should you do instead?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

I had been the first, or first-ish, marketer at TicketFly and then at Asana — I was a marketer there and built up a team to about 25 people. I really love building teams, and I like them at scale too. They had stops and starts and had a large-scale organization, so I built that marketing team up — just much later [stage].

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Storm Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2017

They’ve been using just two DevOps metrics , the number of releases made per month and the number of incidents raised per month. I’ve written before in the executive challenge about why MIB’s CIO chose these two KPIs from the eight DevOps metrics that the management consulting firm insisted were necessary.

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xmatters

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Mean time to repair (MTTR), sometimes referred to as mean time to resolution, is a popular DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) team metric. However, in this article, we look at how long it takes to reach a resolution since this is the more commonly accepted definition that deeply impacts customer satisfaction.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The One Question Every Successful Leader Must Answer (Even Before It Is Asked) by Starbucker on February 8, 2010 The supervisor is frustrated – in his mind, he has done everything right to manage his team to a successful outcome.

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Prisma Clud

AUGUST 20, 2024

Act 3, Scene 1: The Metrics Game Different types of metrics lend themselves to being gamified. After all, when held to a certain metric, human nature wants to tailor our performance to meet or exceed expectations. But what happens if the metrics used to measure success don’t align with business goals?

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Perficient

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

If there are tools that definitely aren’t going anywhere, make a note of those. More good candidates are tools that have a strong community of developer support and a wide user base. These are key metrics in determining which products will yield the largest ROI. Determine which tools are mandatory to your organization.

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Honeycomb

OCTOBER 20, 2021

We’re using this investment to support the growth of our customers and community, ensure the benefits of observability can be realized by all engineering teams, and expand the ways we can better serve you. … not just backend teams, but also client-side and frontend teams. Observability is for everyone.

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Altexsoft

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Maybe a team didn’t prioritize the features and lost a lot of time and money fixing too many mistakes. Or a developer failed to test the app with real users to verify usage scenarios, hoping his idea will take off by itself. Product launch team. Now, various departments or specialists take part in launch preparation.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Regardless of what industry or professional function you work in, you undoubtedly could rattle off a list of metrics or KPI’s by which your performance is measured, if asked. The Overwhelming World of Metrics and Measurement With all of this data, it is easy to over-index on crunching the numbers.

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Code Simplicity

JANUARY 3, 2017

Almost as long as I have been working to make the lives of software engineers better, people have been asking me how to measure developer productivity. How do we know if a team is doing worse or better over time? How does a manager explain to senior managers how productive the developers are? And so on and so on.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

They must be relevant, meaningful, in alignment with cultural values, and tied to the right set of metrics. I wonder what you think about this idea… [link] mikemyatt Hi Deb: Sounds like a cop-out to me…However to be fair, I clearly don't have enough information on the situation at your company to render a definitive opinion.

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