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Avoiding ‘The Overlap Trap’: Poor org structure can sabotage results

CIO

Janet Sherlock is a digital and retail executive with a long track record of modernizing organizations, processes, and solutions. After the episode we spent more time discussing organizational design, including Sherlock’s tips on how to design the IT organization of the future. Teams, leaders, and employees want and need clarity.

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AI-native software engineering may be closer than developers think

CIO

Developers unimpressed by the early returns of generative AI for coding take note: Software development is headed toward a new era, when most code will be written by AI agents and reviewed by experienced developers, Gartner predicts. This technology already exists.”

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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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How to make coaching work for your sales team

TechCrunch

The advent of SaaS and cloud-based software services has all but obliterated the traditional sales model, but not many organizations are actually helping their sales teams adapt to this new world order. Some organizations provide no sales training at all, and others simply miss the mark.

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How ZoomInfo Enhances Your ABM Strategy

For marketing teams to develop a successful account-based marketing strategy, they need to ensure good data is housed within its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. More specifically, updated data can help organizations outline key accounts for their campaigns.

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Insights from your JIRA data to help improve your team

Xebia

Many teams are using Atlassian’s JIRA as an issue tracker, which then becomes a valuable source of information for their daily operations. As a team leader utilizing JIRA, you probably have employed JIRA dashboards to monitor the status of work, usually in context of a (release) planning. “won’t fix”).

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

Some of the advice is timeless, for instance the section about “General interference with Organizations and Production”: Insist on doing everything through “channels” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions. Develop incredibly detailed “strategic” plans. Pivot frequently.