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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO

billion in stock buybacks between 2017 and 2019. In 2017, Fast Company wrote that Southwest Airlines’ digital transformation “takes off” with an $800 million technology overhaul, but only $300 million was dedicated to new technology for operations. 31 what amounts to $428 million a year.

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Appetiser’s co-founders discuss building client relationships and getting to MVP

TechCrunch

“We were able to use our CTO to lead a team of six devs from the Appetiser team, with occasional UX/UI, product management and project management as needed. Jamie Shostak: Back in 2017, I ran into a tall German guy at the coffee machine of a co-working space in Melbourne: Michael.

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The End of Enterprise IT

LeanEssays

Two years ago, the employees at ING Netherlands headquarters – over 3,000 people from marketing, product management, channel management, and IT development – were told that their jobs had disappeared. After initial experiments in 2010, the IT organization put aside waterfall development in favor of agile teams.

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10 Reasons Why Costa Rica is the Ideal Place to Outsource Software Development

Gorilla Logic

However, for Agile development projects that require ongoing communication and collaboration within a similar time zone, offshoring can hinder project velocity. Costa Rica’s Location Makes it Perfect for Agile Development. Custom software applications built using an Agile Software Development approach. Download our guide.

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Three Pillars of DevOps Success in 2018

CollabNet VersionOne

I had given a quote to DevOps Digest , predicting that DevOps would grow closer to the heart of the business in 2017. Some of the trends we talked about at the beginning of 2017, like measuring DevOps success, have grown in importance over the past year. These pillars are: Value streams. Connected visibility and context.

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Top 10 Software Products to Integrate with GitHub

G2 Crowd Software

13, 2017, total almost 400 more than the next-most reviewed tool, Bitbucket. In addition to version control hosting, GitHub offers features for project management, code review and community discussion. In addition to version control hosting, GitHub offers features for project management, code review and community discussion.

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Three Trends from 2018 & Three Predictions for 2019 in Cloud Connectivity

Zayo

By: Milos Marjanovic, Vice President of Product, Zayo and Dominic Romero, Senior Product Manager, TierPoint. With the proliferation of new technology, including AI, IoT, 5G and blockchain, enterprises have more data and workloads to manage than ever before. and refined their offering.

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