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Quantum Metric raises $200M, now valued at over $1B, for its digital product design platform

TechCrunch

Quantum Metric , which provides a cloud-based service both to build digital products and then test and fix them in real time to improve how they work, sold by the company as Continuous Digital Product Design, has picked up $200 million in funding, a Series B round that values the company at more than $1 billion.

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Report: Technical Debt is Costing You More Than You Think

OverOps

Many organizations have been struggling to understand not only the cost of downtime, but how to quantify the quality of their software and what the cost is of poor quality code. A new report from the Consortium for IT Software Quality ( 1 ) covers the cost of poor software quality, shedding light on those topics. ?? NEW POST ??

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How Can CIOs Pick Tomorrow’s Stars?

The Accidental Successful CIO

The reason that picking tomorrow’s leaders today is so hard is because we do a very poor job of it. Vendors who make HR software are starting to develop their own solutions. They claim that algorithms built using an array of metrics can yield valuable information about high potentials. What All Of This Means For You.

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Friction

LeanEssays

Because these companies are creating a new end-to-end experience, they rarely leverage existing capabilities aimed at serving their market; they develop a “full stack” of new capabilities. In fact, when software development is done right, speed, quality and low cost are fully compatible.

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Dynamic Pricing Explained: Use in Revenue Management and Pricing Optimization

Altexsoft

How would you price tickets not only to cover expenses for each route but also to achieve a certain level of revenue to be able to grow and develop your business? For instance, an airline can secure itself from bad sales during a low-demand season or before an upcoming departure day by putting tickets on sale. says Shartsis.

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Organise your engineering teams around the work by reteaming

Abhishek Tiwari

When it comes to organising engineering teams, a popular view has been to organise your teams based on either Spotify's agile model (i.e. squads, chapters, tribes, and guilds) or simply follow Amazon's two-pizza team model. It is one of the ways you can organise your engineering teams in a retail environment.

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Investing in Strategic Capability versus Buying Tactical Capacity

The Agile Manager

The increase in global IT sourcing is outpacing the rate of development of highly-qualified professionals in many markets 2 – salaries are increasing as there are more jobs chasing fewer high-qualified candidates, and turnover of IT staff is rising as people pursue higher compensation. Why governance?