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10 ways to kill your IT culture

CIO

Without a strong IT culture, inspiring IT teams to extend beyond their “run the business” responsibilities into areas requiring collaboration between business colleagues, data scientists, and partners is challenging. Additionally, 84% of leaders believed their organizations had strong teamwork compared to 60% of team members.

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The CIO’s primary job: Developing future IT leaders

CIO

But it is equally vital to identify those people who can develop into managers and create a path forward for them as well. In my most recent CIO.com article on nurturing high-performing teams , I made a comment that stirred some questions. And if people have bad managers, the results can be less than optimum.

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Intimidating Questions: How Bad Questions Shut People Down

Let's Grow Leaders

Avoid These Intimidating Questions That Can Silence Innovation and Problem Solving When someone on your team screws up or has one of those “what were they thinking” moments, particularly when the stakes are high. ” The same is true for your team. You need to figure out what’s going on– fast.

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7 ways diversity and inclusion help teams perform better

CIO

Politics — and even marketing — aside, there is no doubt that your teams should be diverse. This is not for social justice or corporate altruism,” explains Cheryl Stokes, CEO of CNEXT, a leadership development and executive networking business. “It Diversity makes your company — and your teams — more creative and innovative.

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Mending the rift between business stakeholders and development teams

Xebia

In today’s business world, the synergy between stakeholders, product management and development teams are paramount. Customer’s problem At one of our major clients at Xebia customers complained, that the project velocity was inconsistent, while the development team seemed perpetually busy.

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6 ways to prepare for a difficult conversation with a direct report

CIO

Fundamentally, it boils down to whether the individual is meeting performance expectations and contributing positively to the team and broader culture,” she explains. These skills can’t be developed overnight; instead they need to be studied and practiced frequently. Still, the team and objectives must always come first.

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7 sins of software development

CIO

Software development is a challenging discipline built on millions of parameters, variables, libraries, and more that all must be exactly right. Opinionated programmers, demanding stakeholders, miserly accountants, and meeting-happy managers mix in a political layer that makes a miracle of any software development work happening at all.