CIO

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Delivering on time and on budget Completing software projects in a timely manner while staying within budget is a long-time challenge of software development. On time and on budget are much easier to judge with the finger on the pulse of expectations of both the users and the developers.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

To get a look at how Intent tailors its approach to client needs and how the company helps clients get their products from inception to the market, we spoke with Wojciech Borkowski , its head of business development, and CTO Peter Tuszynski. It’s important to have a battle-tested process for product validation.

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The Daily WTF

AUGUST 30, 2020

The project was launched with the code name "Cold Stone", with Glenn as new CTO. New "business critical" systems were discovered under every rock, and every department in the company had a moment of, "Why weren't we consulted on this plan? "So how long will that take to test? I'll click it."

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CIO

JUNE 26, 2023

Ross Meyercord never set out to make the leap from technology leader to CEO, but a set of intentional and opportunistic career choices delivered the breadth of business experience and leadership skills required to land the job. Neal Sample A transferable skill set Meyercord would certainly make that case. Cultivate an appetite for risk.

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CIO

MARCH 16, 2023

We will see AI usage increase in software development and testing functions shifting the role of these employees” toward higher-level, personal-touch tasks, Huffman says. Virtual and hybrid work is here to stay,” Matin says, “and I think that’s a great thing for technologists. There is a change in how tech workers use our attention span.”

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Atomic Spin

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Looking to level up your consulting skills? As consultants, we juggle a lot of different concerns and goals. For example, does delivering quality software mean that you’ve had time to prove its correctness by modeling it in TLA+, that you’ve written property-based tests, or that you wrote it in a strongly-typed language?

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CIO

JULY 13, 2023

As Seth Dobbs, CTO at Bounteous, explains, “We do creative work. This is true for every technology company and, increasingly, for nontechnology companies seeking to implement technical solutions. “IT leaders should expect increased competition in many talent pools and that the cost of IT talent will continue to rise.”

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Atomic Spin

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Looking to level up your consulting skills? As consultants, we juggle a lot of different concerns and goals. Hit budgets and timelines. The better consultants I’ve worked with are able to quickly determine a plan of action. Working at a consultancy is all about providing the most value within our limited time.

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Atomic Spin

JANUARY 7, 2019

So how much should you budget for a custom software project? Some companies keep throwing money at the project without any budget at all. Other companies focus on making their budget as small as possible. No matter who you work with, the process below can help you put together a responsible budget for your project.

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Mobilunity

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

” This phrase describes problems like the absence of a CTO from the beginning, a lack of co-founders, or a team of inexperienced freelancers. Moreover, with offshore hiring, you can equip your startup with a CTO — the must-have role according to ex-founders of failed tech companies. Will it be a web app?

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Erik Bernhardsson

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

This has been an amazing source of products, that have been battle-tested at Amazon, Google, and Microsoft scale, and it makes sense that those tools are a great match for their big enterprise customers. If that customer switches their $1M/year budget to Snowflake, then about $400k 7 goes back to AWS, making AWS about $200k in gross profits.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Office of Management and Budget. Independent Consultant. Chief of Naval Research/Director, Innovation, Technology Requirements, and Test & Evaluation. Office of Naval Research. Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence. Independent Consultant. Chief Technology Officer.

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Trigent

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Automation technology supplier Emerson for instance, witnessed a surge in the use of sensors combined with edge gateways when manual on-site inspection became difficult. It’s therefore essential to have a meticulously crafted roadmap based on priorities, business goals, timelines, resources, and budget. We can help you too.

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GreenBar

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Lifecycle Pricing When I’m budgeting a software project I think about the entire software lifecycle, my version of which I list below. Quality Assurance (testing) is another skillset at which many developers are not expert. Might need to satisfy industry regulations or operational Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

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d2iq

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

They, in their defence, often counter that it takes time to access the correct data, build pipelines that are well tested, parameterized, and automated to run on a schedule with clear SLAs, and monitoring and alerting in place. CTO: With 100,000 products in our catalogue and many of them seasonal, we cannot rely on manual curation.

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OpenCredo

JULY 5, 2022

A budget of £150 was provided to work with, covering expenses such as cloud fees and equipment purchases where necessary. I feel this was a great experience, and a something we shall certainly continue to do in the future” Nicki Watt – CEO/CTO. Peter Vegh – Senior Consultant & GreenBulb Captain. The Jury (Panel).

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CircleCI

MAY 21, 2020

Automated testing. Though it may sound frightening, it can be useful to incorporate production-testing alongside other testing methodologies. Sometimes testing less and allowing something to alert if it fails can be a risk worth taking or even be advantageous in detecting the actual problem in production.

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Praxent

APRIL 22, 2020

If you were unhappy with your house, you might consult a builder to figure out how to fix it. Though it may seem counter-intuitive, modernizing legacy software step-by-step gets you further towards your goals faster, while reducing the risk of major budget or schedule overruns. Beware the tear-down mentality. Would you hire them?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Software consultant Andrew Drach’s two companies Callentis and Solwey demonstrate his entrepreneurial skills, but his clients also value his educational background, as we learned through TechCrunch’s survey to identify the best software consultants for startups. Why did you choose the boutique consultancy model?

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CTOvision

MARCH 27, 2014

Consults with service owners regarding their security risks and responsibility in minimizing those risks. Coordinates with the appropriate entities in any lawful compliance reviews or investigations related to the security of electronic information and/or any information technology investigation. Qualifications. Internet2 is a 501.C.3

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Such conversations … should conclude with clear actions, benefits, timelines, and the budget and resources required to close gaps.” Rahul Mahna, partner and outsourced IT services leader at management consulting firm Eisner Advisory Group, believes that scenario-playing with teams and management colleagues can spur useful security insights.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 18, 2020

We created a follow-up task to augment the self-healing mechanisms with a more comprehensive liveness test. Drawing on her SRE background, Liz Fong-Jones recommended we categorize incidents using the taxonomy she learned at Google: what fraction of incidents are downstream provider-caused, vs. self change-caused, vs. customer-caused?

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CIO

MAY 20, 2024

Although AI, machine learning, and generative AI — the more recent entrant in the space — are not new, they are becoming more mature, mainstream technologies. This has CIOs moving from experimenting and testing intelligence in pockets to scaling up deployments and rolling out intelligence throughout their organizations.

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Existek

AUGUST 9, 2021

More and more software development companies started delegating some parts of the development to other specialists because it decreased time and budget and enhanced flexibility and quality of built products. Arguably, even more than the server-side, considering all the difficulties related to testing an app with a responsive interface.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

They''ve been in talks with some consulting companies, but don''t quite the know the criteria for evaluating them and things like references(and where to get them). How is testing handled? Are budgets and deadlines hard or soft? So here are some thoughts on selecting the right firm. What''s their process?

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Jeremiah Grossman

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Furthermore, these dollars are typically spent counter to how businesses invest their resources in technology. To illustrate this point I’m going to borrow inspiration from Gunnar Peterson (Software Security Architect & CTO at Arctec Group). portion of IT infrastructure. Cisco $36B, Juniper $3.3B, Microsoft $58.5B, and F5 $653M.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2022

Dana Linnet is president and CEO of The Summit Group DC, an independent strategic advisory consultancy in Washington, D.C. specializing in defense, space and emerging technologies. government official and contracting officer, defense executive and VP/GM for a Silicon Valley tech startup. Dana Linnet. Contributor. Gaps remain.

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Atomic Spin

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Not only that, but at a software consultancy like Atomic, it’s also a prophecy for how the engagement will end and deliver on your brand promise. For a feature to be viable to the business, it needs to be implemented within a reasonable budget. For a feature to be valuable , it must meet user needs.

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Altexsoft

JUNE 6, 2019

Forrester Consulting discovered that poor checkout experience and long lines are the third highest reason grocers would skip the line and shop in a different place. Source: Forrester Consulting. After being in a test mode for a bit more than two years, the cashierless store became available to the public in January 2018.

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Codegiant

AUGUST 14, 2020

Testing ?—?In In Agile, during the testing stage, the code is tested to ensure that it’s bug-free and ready for deployment. In each iteration phase, there’s testing involved meaning you’ll be able to identify bugs early on and fix them quickly. William Chin, Web Consultant at PickFu. Development ?—?the

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Apiumhub

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

This will allow teams to cut down their test automation time. Code reviews for better validation of post-code commits will also join standard unit testing and human code reviews. – Eran Kinsbruner, chief evangelist for Perforce Software. DevSecOps integrates security and compliance testing into the development pipelines.

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Tenable

JANUARY 31, 2024

These are the findings from a commissioned survey including 262 IT and security professionals who have the final decision-making authority for their organization’s cloud infrastructure. Which of the following data sources does your organization use to identify overall risk exposure?

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LaunchDarkly

MAY 20, 2020

On April 30, Casey Rosenthal, CEO and Co-Founder of Verica.io, spoke at our Test in Production Meetup on Twitch. It’s reactive testing methodologies that validate known properties. We’re not saying go do those, certainly not advocating that ditch testing. And those things along the bottom are good. Thank you, Kim.

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LaunchDarkly

JANUARY 14, 2020

At the November Test in Production Meetup in San Francisco, LaunchDarkly’s Yoz Grahame (a Developer Advocate) moderated a panel discussion featuring Larry Lancaster, Founder and CTO at Zebrium, and Ramin Khatibi, a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and infrastructure consultant. We ran some tests that look good.

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Codegiant

APRIL 21, 2020

Inside the document, you’ll also have the budget and time estimates required for the product to be completed successfully. Sometimes, changes are required due to various reasons ranging from time and budget estimates to software robustness. Testing ?—?Once After the product is developed, it must be tested. Overspending.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 26, 2012

I've done four Free CTO Consulting Sessions in the past month with startup founders who all had run into variations of the same problem. In these three cases, I would say that while I would have expected fewer bugs coming through the process with better development of test scripts, the overall symptoms were not horrible.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JUNE 22, 2022

When you look at the number of respondents who left their employer, are planning to leave their employer, or got a promotion and a salary increase, it’s easy to see why salary budgets are under pressure. There’s no standardized naming system, so a programming lead at one company might be an architect or even a CTO at another.

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