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Mending the rift between business stakeholders and development teams

Xebia

Introduction How often can your organization boast about getting a steady and predictable flow of productivity? In today’s business world, the synergy between stakeholders, product management and development teams are paramount. More troubling, however, was the inefficiency that permeated the entire process.

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5 surefire ways to derail a digital transformation (without knowing it)

CIO

CIOs can’t be involved in every strategic discussion or dive into every initiative’s details, but there are several high-level signs that indicate a digital transformation may be destined to underperform, especially as CIOs add initiatives. But are product managers developing market- and customer-driven roadmaps and prioritized backlogs?

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How to hire the right product manager for your IT needs

CIO

IT organizations are increasingly shifting from project-based organizational structures to product-based methodologies , which involve cross-functional teams. Product managers aren’t a new job category by any means, but this shift means that they’re newly prominent and important to many companies’ strategies.

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J&J’s Jim Swanson brings mission-driven leadership to the CIO role

CIO

He started out as a scientist, working his way up the research and development ranks in the pharmaceutical industry, an experience steeped in curiosity that has helped shape his emphasis on continuous learning to this day. I believe in humble servant leadership — I’m here to support my teams,” he says.

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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

CIO

CIOs are under increasing pressure to deliver more digital innovations faster and more efficiently. Business leaders expect IT to develop new products, improve customer experiences, automate workflows, and deliver new artificial intelligence capabilities.

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Outsourcing Software Development Best Practices

Luis Goncalves

Product development is a long and laborious process. Sometimes, you have to get new features out the door so you can launch your product right away and start raising money. And because of this more and more companies are using Outsourcing Software Development services to help them to reduce the time to market.

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How to manage cloud exploitation at the edge

CIO

Companies that have embraced the cloud need to understand the Shared Responsibility Model: a security and compliance framework that explains what shared infrastructure and systems the cloud provider is responsible for maintaining and how a customer is responsible for operating systems, data, and applications utilizing the cloud.

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