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14 essential book recommendations by and for IT leaders

CIO

Why not pick up a book that will inspire you to be a more effective leader, help you spot challenges and pitfalls in your IT strategies and processes, or prepare for the future of information technology? And this group of CIOs, CTOs, and technical CEOs have strong favorites — books they turn to again and again for inspiration.

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Agile Book Club: Refactoring (with Martin Fowler)

Martin Fowler

Martin Fowler is the author of Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code , the seminal book about refactoring, as well as many other books and articles about software development. How does refactoring fit into the big picture of development? About the Book Club. The smaller the better.

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I’m thinking about developer productivity.

Xebia

Developer productivity is a hot topic right now. One conclusion we can probably all agree on is that modeling developer productivity is hard. Can we use these five ideas as a lens through which we can look at developer productivity? Will it help us improve how we think about modeling developer productivity?

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Leadership Book Club: How to Read Courageous Cultures With Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

Practical ways to engage your team (or leadership book club) as you read Courageous Cultures together. One of the real joys of being authors is hearing from leadership book clubs and teams who are reading our books together. And, you don’t get better at leadership or building culture just by reading a book.

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7+ Graphics Libraries to Enhance Your Embedded Analytics

This e-book details a number of graphics libraries plus a few bonus tools to modernize your embedded dashboards. If your embedded analytics are looking stale, leverage these free graphics libraries to take your embedded analytics offerings above and beyond.

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Dark secrets of developer motivation

CIO

Developers are also looking for meaning, the sense that their work has purpose, but they have unique ways of finding it that may not always obvious. If you yourself are not a coder, then much of what you think about the unique nature of development work may be incomplete. Measure the right outputs.

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Taiwan-based FunNow, an instant booking app, raises $15M Series B

TechCrunch

FunNow is a booking app for spontaneous people. For example, in Malaysia, it talked to food and beverage merchants and discovered that customers prefer to pick up food instead of waiting for deliveries, so it added takeaway bookings. Some users, tired of WFH, booked hotel rooms to work. Image Credits: FunNow. “We

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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E-book: 5 Strategies to Boost Software Deliveries

In this e-book written in partnership with Wesley Zapellini, he shared his vast in Managing Agile Teams. Finally, someone summarized in 5 practical strategies on how to improve any software development workflow. Real-life examples, charts, and graphs!

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics.

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How to Achieve Product-Market Fit

Speaker: Dan Olsen - Product Management Trainer and Consultant, Author, and Speaker

In this webinar, product management expert Dan Olsen will share his simple but effective framework for achieving product-market fit from his book The Lean Product Playbook. December 7, 2023 at 11:00 am PT, 2:00 pm ET, 7:00 pm GMT Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours!