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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise. Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. There are other risks, too.

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Why Ruby Life CISO George Al Koura puts people first

CIO

But when it comes to actual business, George Al Koura, CISO of online dating company Ruby Life, has built a career on how long-term success depends on building team cohesion within the organization, and elevating the relationship with partners outside it. C-Suite, CIO, IT Leadership, Relationship Building, Vendor Management

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Defensive Instrumentation Benefits Everyone

Honeycomb

A lot of reasoning in content is predicated on the audience being in a modern, psychologically safe, agile sort of environment. But, this can be bad if downstream systems failed and yours is just the deepest that has good instrumentation. Only a couple of teams need to be dragged into the call, instead of 13.

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5 ways to measure and improve your QA Effectiveness; is your vendor up to the mark?

Trigent

The performance of software development can be measured by the difficulty and amount of code committed in a given sprint. The time taken to test is a crucial indicator of how quickly your QA team creates and runs tests for the new features without affecting their quality. Is your Vendor up to the mark? Time to test.

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Competency Lost

The Agile Manager

The captive corporate IT department was a relatively early adopter of Agile management practices, largely out of desperation. Years of expensive overshoots, canceled projects, and poor quality solutions gave IT not just a bad reputation, but a confrontational relationship with its host business.

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Why the Age of the Cloud Native Security Platform Is Here to Stay

Palo Alto Networks

The writing is on the wall: Traditional security tools and methodologies are ill-suited to protect cloud native’s developer-driven and infrastructure-agnostic multicloud patterns. They integrate with the development lifecycle, are programmatically accessible via APIs and run everywhere the apps do. A Cloud-Agnostic Security Future.

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Patterns for Buying and Selling Software Services

The Agile Manager

How we contract for software services has a big impact on how successful a software team will be. There are three common ways of buying development and related services: we can contract for bodies, experts or a solution. Contracting for Bodies The simplest way to contract for services is a body shop or staff-augmentation contract.