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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

SoCal CTO

But what was interesting to me was that I found myself recommending that each of them should have a technical adviser. Review the code being built. This is exactly the kind of thing I'm doing as a Part-Time CTO or Technical Advisor for startups. There are two kinds of advisors that are commonly needed.

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision. Leverage any production issue as a reason to “pull the brakes” Introduce very complex processes for code change and common workflows. Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.

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7 signs it’s time to modernize your IT systems

CIO

Kar advises taking a measured approach to system modernization. Technical debt impacts the bottom line A red flag that it’s time to modernize IT systems is when technical debt begins piling up. Often, technical leaders don’t devote sufficient time to communication, change management, and stakeholder management,” he observes.

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What is ERP? Enterprise resource planning systems explained

CIO

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a system of integrated software applications that manages day-to-day business processes and operations across finance, human resources, procurement, distribution, supply chain, and other functions. ERP definition. Some ERP systems split the physical database to improve performance.

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10 ways AI can make IT more productive

CIO

Provide more context to alerts Receiving an error text message that states nothing more than, “something went wrong,” typically requires IT staff members to review logs and identify the issue. He notes that AI can also automatically create pull requests and integrate with project management software.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

Such partnerships include long-standing ones such as business consultancies to advise on transformation efforts, software vendors with expertise in vertical or horizontal solutions, system integrators to help design and implement multi-vendor tech stacks, and managed service providers to run and optimize targeted IT domains.

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8 hard truths CIOs must learn to accept

CIO

Nor do they expect to get their way all the time, as the days of command-and-control leadership over all technical decisions are long gone. Thats the hard truth, says Erica Hausheer, senior vice president and CIO of software company Teradata. It had 40,000 lines of code, which took 25 person-years to write and 10-person years to test.