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Choosing Between Contractors and Consultants: What’s the Best Decision?

Tandem

Companies are looking for professionals who possess a deep understanding of programming languages, system architecture, and agile methodologies. The right professional has both the necessary technical skills and a deep understanding of your specific industry and business goals.

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Chief Technology Officer: Understanding the Main Tech Person In a Company

Altexsoft

A Chief Technology Officer (sometimes called Chief Technical Officer) is the most skilled technology person in the company. CTO vs CIO vs VP of Engineering vs Technical director. They are often confused with CIOs, VPs of Engineering, or Technical Directors. Technical director – tech advisor in a team.

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Architecture Modernization Enabling Teams (AMET)

Strategic Tech

It becomes outdated based on older technologies, architectural patterns, and outdated assumptions about the business and its environment. This increases the level of technical debt and makes it more fragile. To take full advantage of modernized architecture, it’s also necessary to modernize architectural practices and ways of working.

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Bliki: ConwaysLaw

Martin Fowler

Important enough to affect every system I've come across, and powerful enough that you're doomed to defeat if you try to fight it. Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure. -- Melvin Conway.

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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. The back-end systems never quite work the way you thought they would, either, and it takes forever for Ops to update the development environment with new builds. Technical skills. Your feedback is appreciated! But at last, you ship. At least it‘s Ops’ problem now.

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Digital Twins: Components, Use Cases, and Implementation Tips

Altexsoft

This process involves numerous pieces working as a uniform system. Digital twin system architecture. A digital twin system contains hardware and software components with middleware for data management in between. Components of the digital twin system. System twinning. Hardware components. Component twinning.

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The Scaling Dilemma

LeanEssays

Fry advises, “When it comes to building a deeply efficient engineering organization, there are several things you can do to move the needle: Build strong teams first. In a lean environment, the leader’s role is to set up strong teams, to be sure, but it is also to devise a system – let’s call it a goal system – which assigns goals to teams.