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

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Did you go into your doctorate program knowing you would be diving deep into organizational design, or did your USC studies spark that in you? The Organizational Change and Leadership program at USC was an ideal fit for pursuing this research and for studying different aspects of organizational design and effectiveness.

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10 ways to kill your IT culture

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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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AI-native software engineering may be closer than developers think

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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. That’s what we call an AI software engineering agent. This technology already exists.”

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The CIO’s primary job: Developing future IT leaders

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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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Accenture forges own path to improve attack surface management

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Accenture’s award-winning attack surface management program strengthens the company’s resiliency and security posture. To achieve complete visibility of its IP estate, Accenture merged various technologies into a custom ASM (attack surface management) program. We knew we needed to do better.” Threat intelligence response.

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5 surefire ways to derail a digital transformation (without knowing it)

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CIOs can’t be involved in every strategic discussion or dive into every initiative’s details, but there are several high-level signs that indicate a digital transformation may be destined to underperform, especially as CIOs add initiatives. But are product managers developing market- and customer-driven roadmaps and prioritized backlogs?