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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? These are the worries that keep team leads up at night.

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10 ways to kill your IT culture

CIO

Transformational CIOs recognize the importance of IT culture in delivering innovation, accelerating business impacts, and reducing operational and security risks. Research on creating a culture of high-performance teams suggests there’s a disconnect between how leaders perceive their cultures compared to how individual contributors view them.

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IT leaders: What’s the gameplan as tech badly outpaces talent?

CIO

Weve been innovating with AI, ML, and LLMs for years, he says. Gen AI-related job listings were particularly common in roles such as data scientists and data engineers, and in software development. But not every company can say the same. And paying a premium isnt out of the question. We ask, When did you last learn a new thing?

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How to Build a High-Performance Team

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

A high-performance team thrives by fostering trust, encouraging open communication, and setting clear goals for all members to work towards. By focusing on these elements, you can promote a culture of collaboration and innovation. Developing high-performance teams requires ongoing effort and commitment.

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Six steps to creating a successful IT strategy: A guide for CIOs

CIO

This alignment ensures that technology investments and projects directly contribute to achieving business goals, such as market expansion, product innovation, customer satisfaction, operational efficiency, and financial performance. Guiding principles Recognizing the core principles that drive business decisions is crucial for taking action.

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CIOs must mind their own data confidence gap

CIO

Moreover, 68% of vice presidents in charge of AI or data management already see their companies making decisions based on bad data all or most of the time, versus 47% of C-level IT leaders. Then, after the internal service is finished, IT teams move onto the next thing, Agarwal says.

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Can AI solve your technical debt problem?

CIO

But t echnical debt can undercut an organizations ability to innovate long term, and the shortcuts taken during initial development likely resulted in a codebase thats convoluted, slow, or difficult for devs to understand. Sometimes tech debt arises not because your code is bad, but because code it depends on has changed or gone sour.