CIO

MARCH 9, 2023

Four key areas have the greatest impact on software development performance: tools, culture, product management and talent management. When selecting an outsourcer, validate what tools and project management structure they will bring to the table; validate past project success in terms of both budget and on-time delivery.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

OCTOBER 23, 2018

I should start by saying this section does not offer a treatise on how to do architecture. Vitruvius and the principles of architecture. Architecture begins when someone has a nontrivial problem to be solved. Everyone who goes to architecture school learns his work. It must be beautiful, like Venus, inspiring love.

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CIO

AUGUST 22, 2023

After all, evolving the organization’s culture, processes, and technology practices is something the CIO can’t do alone. Product and delivery leaders: Agents of change While there are many ways to charter a program and define leadership responsibilities, I recommend leading transformation initiatives with these two key roles.

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Hire “architects” and require even small changes to have an “architecture review” Require even small changes to have a “security review” Product Dismiss useful metrics on academic grounds (e.g. Reject the best people based on “poor culture fit” or other vague criteria.

Software Review 262

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CIO

JANUARY 4, 2023

CIOs know that tech issues get the trigger finger of blame when businesses experience operational disasters, but we also know there are culture and process issues that can be primary and often untold contributors — both well within the CIO’s purview. Does your organization have the culture to support software development?

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Few companies realize the role that organizational structure and culture play in driving transformation, and instead focus solely on the technology,” says Sunil Senan, SVP and global head of data, analytics, and AI at Infosys. Gartner’s data suggests that, without executive partnership, as many as 88% of CIOs are primed to fall short.

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CIO

JULY 18, 2023

The CIO’s biggest hiring challenge is clear: “There is simply not enough talent to go around,” says Scott duFour, global CIO of business payments company Fleetcor, for whom positions in areas such as AI, cloud architecture, and data science remain the toughest to fill.

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Dots and Bridges

JUNE 7, 2021

Context-aware analytics, cloud computing, and intelligent automation can foster a reliable, resilient, and next-gen architecture. Address the Technology-Humanity-Culture intersection. Security Analytics, Product Management, Threat Hunting and Detection. Inform, Educate, and Enlighten. Sachin Nayyar. Edward Rhyne.

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Xebia

DECEMBER 9, 2023

We launched an entire IoT architecture complete with Azure Digital Twins and Azure Data Explorer, and attached dummy devices to the IoT Hub to present the data live in a graph. Read up on this architecture here. We gained more knowledge about what is required to build such a solution and actually bring the complete Azure setup to life.

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CloudGeometry

MARCH 14, 2022

Feature agility is about delivering value to customers and overtime while reducing feature friction caused by architectural dependencies so you can introduce those changes more quickly. We can’t improve feature agility without first scrutinizing your internal architecture. The journey toward improving feature agility Now what?

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CIO

JUNE 5, 2023

Technical skills topped the list but also crucial are key leadership and culture capabilities such as change management, strategy building, and business relationship management, as well as critical business skills such as cost, product, and vendor management, as shown in the graphic below.

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CIO

JUNE 16, 2023

Vaughan says being on the cloud gives MoneyGram a better understanding of its customer populations and how precisely to market to them — as well as the ability to innovate new products to create new data and revenue streams. For example, using Google Analytics, the team has gained deeper insights into its customer base. “Our

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 27, 2024

However, measuring productivity is essentially measuring the performance of individuals, which can make them feel scrutinized. This situation might necessitate a shift in organizational culture to focus on collective achievements and emphasize that automation tools enhance the developer experience.

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Luis Goncalves

AUGUST 21, 2019

Product Management and Software Development: The Big Clash. While product management and software development should go hand in hand, often, they end up on a clash. Product managers and software developers, while working on the same product, have different goals and processes.

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Netflix Tech

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Our Journey so Far Over the past year, we’ve implemented the core infrastructure pieces necessary for a federated GraphQL architecture as described in our previous post: Studio Edge Architecture The first Domain Graph Service (DGS) on the platform was the former GraphQL monolith that we discussed in our first post (Studio API).

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Dots and Bridges

JUNE 3, 2021

Context-aware analytics, cloud computing, and intelligent automation can foster a reliable, resilient, and next-gen architecture. Address the Technology-Humanity-Culture intersection. Security Analytics, Product Management, Threat Hunting and Detection. Inform, Educate, and Enlighten. Sachin Nayyar. Edward Rhyne.

Technical Review 52

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d2iq

MAY 22, 2023

The strategy was updated in a White House memorandum in January 2022 that set forth “a Federal zero trust architecture (ZTA) strategy” that required agencies to meet specific cybersecurity standards and objectives by the end of Fiscal Year 2024.

Guidelines 52

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CIO

AUGUST 28, 2023

Self-organizing teams are most likely to develop the best architectures and designs and to meet requirements. Regular intervals are used by teams to improve efficiency through fine-tuning behaviors.

Project Management 228

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Capgemini

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Put CX at the heart of the design of intelligent products and services. Revamp architecture to support product development. Step 4: Scale: Start small, augment with technology, and foster a culture of autonomy – as big-bang transformations rarely work. Coach agility as a key ingredient in the design process.

Technical Review 52

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Joel Crabb

JUNE 26, 2020

While we continued to use the People, Process and Technology formula in our decks and communication to leadership, I managed my team of 200+ engineers to outcomes. At Target, our CIO is the most architecture centric CIO that’s ever existed. For more on that see my 22 part series on the Digital Transformation of BestBuy.com.

Architecture 52

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JULY 9, 2020

Agile Initiative Roadmaps add product, project, architecture and UX planning to initiatives so that you can take a longer view with a small amount of time and effort, which means that you can deliver benefits much sooner at a lower cost. 3 of their budget designing and planning upfront.

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Wolk Software Engineering

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This can lead to a culture of fear, where employees feel pressure to meet targets and achieve results, often resulting in burnout, low morale, and high turnover. A culture of trust and ownership, and a sense of shared purpose, is critical for achieving ambitious and long-term goals.

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CircleCI

JUNE 4, 2021

The optimal approach to software delivery is tied to your software architecture, which, as we know from Conway’s Law, is in turn related to your organizational structure. Keep the architecture and tooling as simple as possible. Complexity is the killer: it kills speed, culture, and product velocity. Automate your culture.

Software 136

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Apiumhub

JUNE 16, 2021

You will learn how to lead engineers, handle conflict, hire well, motivate employees, manage your boss, discover how to say no, understand different engineering personalities, build effective teams, run a meeting well, scale teams. INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan. And he shows how you can, too.

Technical Review 131

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Joel Crabb

JUNE 26, 2020

While we continued to use the People, Process and Technology formula in our decks and communication to leadership, I managed my team of 200+ engineers to outcomes. At Target, our CIO is the most architecture centric CIO that’s ever existed. For more on that see my 22 part series on the Digital Transformation of BestBuy.com.

Architecture 40

Architecture SOA eCommerce Agile 40

Joel Crabb

JUNE 26, 2020

While we continued to use the People, Process and Technology formula in our decks and communication to leadership, I managed my team of 200+ engineers to outcomes. At Target, our CIO is the most architecture centric CIO that’s ever existed. For more on that see my 22 part series on the Digital Transformation of BestBuy.com.

Architecture 40

Architecture SOA eCommerce Agile 40

AWS Machine Learning - AI

JANUARY 26, 2024

Many customers are looking for guidance on how to manage security, privacy, and compliance as they develop generative AI applications. Understanding and addressing LLM vulnerabilities, threats, and risks during the design and architecture phases helps teams focus on maximizing the economic and productivity benefits generative AI can bring.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JULY 28, 2020

The Core Responsibilities of the AI Product Manager. Product Managers are responsible for the successful development, testing, release, and adoption of a product, and for leading the team that implements those milestones. Product managers for AI must satisfy these same responsibilities, tuned for the AI lifecycle.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JUNE 26, 2019

When we asked what held back their adoption of AI technologies, respondents cited a few reasons, including some that pertained to culture, organization, and skills: [23%] Company culture does not yet recognize needs for AI. [18%] Related training and tutorial links: Product management in the Machine Learning era.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2013

How strong is product management? Architecture All startups will make a lot of changes and scale the product as they move along. This means that early software architecture can sometimes not work as well as the startup moves forward. Issues with the architecture and technical team will take longer to diagnose.

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Gitprime

APRIL 13, 2019

This is where organizational culture comes into play. Aim for releasing the minimum viable product. To scale your teams and technology successfully, you need a culture built on the three legs of minimum viable products. Incorporate product managers into the team. Iterate to the solution.

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Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

VPs of Engineering often have a lot of influence over both company culture and policy, and the decisions our companies make ripple outside of the companies themselves. The whole tech industry would benefit from more perspectives in this role. Not the plan I didn’t join Honeycomb with the goal of becoming an engineering executive.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Product Manager; and Rich Dill, Enterprise Solutions Architect from SnapLogic. Solution overview To solve this text-to-pipeline problem, AWS and SnapLogic designed a comprehensive solution shown in the following architecture. aimed at guiding new product managers through the product management career.

Artificial Inteligence 80

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James Shore

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Customer skills fall in to several categories, as follows: Product management (aka product ownership). Product management involves managing all aspects of a product’s lifecycle, from the initial business case all the way to product launch and beyond. Iteration Demo. Real Customer Involvement.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 9, 2020

According to Rich, this is the result of two very different work cultures existing in the same organization – one that’s collaborative and one that’s highly individualistic. The culture gap can be hard to cross. Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). Show Notes.

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LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

I then make a sustained argument from the Linux experience for the proposition that “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”, suggest productive analogies with other self-correcting systems of selfish agents, and conclude with some exploration of the implications of this insight for the future of software. But CEO Jeff Bezos disagreed.

Software Review 91

Software Review Software Engineering Continuous Delivery Technical Review 91

Luis Goncalves

AUGUST 21, 2019

Product Management and Software Development: The Big Clash. While product management and software development should go hand in hand, often, they end up on a clash. Product managers and software developers, while working on the same product, have different goals and processes. Integrate cultural fit.

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