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What’s enabled Fresenius to transform IT

CIO

Plus, there was the company’s own IT landscape with a self-operated data center in the basement at the headquarters in Bad Homburg, just north of Frankfurt. Transformation never ends This isn’t the end of the IT transformation journey for Elfering, of course. IT transformation is a people job,” he says.

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6 IT rules worth breaking — and how to get away with it

CIO

There comes a time in every IT leader’s life when a key decision must be made: whether to follow an established rule or, as a matter of necessity, break precedent and embark on an alternate course. Yet on the occasion when a specific change needs to be quickly deployed, it can be okay to skip the change management process or revisit it later.

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Change management is broken: here’s how to fix it

CircleCI

Why do people hate change management? Probably because most of the time it feels like the management portion of change management is implemented with arcane approval processes and bureaucratic red tape that have historically gotten in the way of teams making change. Poor communication.

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Outsourcing Software Development Best Practices

Luis Goncalves

Product development is a long and laborious process. And because of this more and more companies are using Outsourcing Software Development services to help them to reduce the time to market. Product Management and Software Development: The Big Clash. Software development is not an easy feat.

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Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

SoCal CTO

I am hearing from my project management team a bit of distrust in the technical capacity of our web development team. I think we suffer because of the distance and culture but the project management team takes every late delivery or small bug as evidence that the development team may not be capable.

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Founder Challenges with Startup Development Teams and CTOs

SoCal CTO

I''m spending more of my time recently working with non-technical startup founders who are having challenges with their software/web/mobile development teams. Common Signals I''ve written previously about Symptoms of a Weak Development Team. Rogue developers with their own agenda. Bugs – no big deal.

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12 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments

CIO

However, the measure of success has been historically at odds with the number of projects said to be overrunning or underperforming, as Panorama has noted that organizations have lowered their standards of success. While we weren’t naïve to the risk of disruption to the business, the extent and magnitude was greater than we anticipated.”