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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

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The last thing any CIO wants is to experience catastrophic operational issues during a peak season, but that’s exactly what executives at Southwest Airlines faced last week. 19-28 far exceeded any other airlines’ operational impacts. Even before the blizzard hit, Southwest Airlines CEO Bob Jordan acknowledged on Nov.

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How BUiLT unites Black IT pros and builds equity

CIO

But as I aged, had project successes, earned budget and decision-making authority, and gained more confidence, power, etc., Since joining, Purdy has had the chance to host events and run a Tech Spotlight event with BUiLT’s North Texas sponsor, American Airlines. For him, fitting in and advancing had always come easy.

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Software Development Outsourcing: Reasons to Opt for It

The Crazy Programmer

IT engineers are in high demand: a qualified software developer may get up to a dozen job offers per week. Developers hardly look for a job ; a job finds them instead. It will take much time and attention to hire 4-6 engineers to delegate the development tasks to. Sigma Software. Outsourcing.

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Agile vs. Waterfall: Which Should A CIO Choose?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Which software development methodology is best? As a CIO I suspect that you are well aware that there are a number of different ways that your IT teams can go about developing software (and doing a lot of other things). Software development has never been an easy task. Image Credit: Silver Blu3.

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Choosing between Native and Cross-Platform Mobile App Development

Sunflower Lab

Examples of Native Mobile Applications: Google maps Spotify Duolingo Gearing Up The Tools Native Mobile Applications does not only require OS-specific software development kits (SDKs), but also integrated development environment (IDE). Performance Not every app can perform well with cross-platform development.

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Native vs cross-platform mobile app development

CircleCI

In addition to having operating system-specific software development kits (SDKs), native mobile development requires an integrated development environment (IDE). The World Bank, Fox Sports, Alaska Airlines, and BBC Good Food (Xamarin). The decision to develop a native or cross-platform app is crucial.

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Reinvention Risk Trade

The Agile Manager

Southwest Airlines has made headlines in recent days for all the wrong reasons: bad weather impacted air travel, which required Southwest to adjust plane and crew schedules. It is, optimistically, an exchange of current system sustainability risk for the combination of development risk and future system sustainability risk.