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What is technical debt? A business risk IT must manage

CIO

A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with refactoring. While the term technical debt found its origins in software development, the concept is applicable to a wide range of IT implementations and operations beyond custom code. So, is technical debt bad? Why is technical debt important?

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Scaling Startups: The Ultimate Guide For Founders

Luis Goncalves

Attempting to scale before achieving product-market fit is a common reason for startup failure. Continuous Delivery: Maintaining Innovation Velocity As your startup scales, maintaining speed and quality in product development becomes increasingly challenging. Discover how to maintain agility while scaling 4.

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8 signs you’ve mistimed a major IT initiative

CIO

Defective leadership Leadership is a key component in the successful timing of any major transformation project, ahead of strategy and technology, says Suneet Dua, chief revenue and growth officer for products and technology at business advisory firm PwC. Mistimed initiatives ultimately result in poor adoption, Lively warns. “If

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Exploration to elimination: CIO road map for adaptive technology portfolios

CIO

Use minimum viable products (MVPs) to validate concepts. Exploit: Leverage proven technologies to maximize exploitation and scale for success Once a technology proves its value, the exploitation phase focuses on developing, implementing, and scaling it to maximize ROI by fully integrating it into the organization’s operations.

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Average Cost of Software Development

iTexico

Average Cost of Software Development. Software development is as much beholden to the whims of this as any other sector. Investment is the keyword here - with keen attention, any amount of money funneled into making the software development process run will recoup its expenses. There can be no market without expenses to be paid.

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Product Development Process: How to Bring Innovation to Life

Altexsoft

This article will guide you through all the steps of a new product development (NPD) process and give you some insights into implementing best practices en route from a pure idea to roll-out and selling. What is a new product development process? Put together, these efforts compose a new product development (NPD) process.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

"I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it. Make sure you go through the 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder.