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Women IT leaders on their climb to the top

CIO

I’ve owned the AI teams, the client teams, service teams, and I’m GM for two businesses — the calling and contact center businesses — and I’ve managed teams upwards of 4,000 people across developers, designers, PMs, etc.” I’ve done a little bit of everything,” she says. Tamecka McKay, CIO for the City of Ft.

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How to choose a custom software development company that delivers: key factors to take into account

Apiumhub

Finding the right custom software development company that delivers is a complex challenge. As we know at the heart of every successful organization is a quality custom software solution, therefore we decided to create a guide with key factors on how to choose a custom software development company that delivers.

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Chief Technology Officer: Understanding the Main Tech Person In a Company

Altexsoft

A Chief Technology Officer (sometimes called Chief Technical Officer) is the most skilled technology person in the company. CTO vs CIO vs VP of Engineering vs Technical director. They are often confused with CIOs, VPs of Engineering, or Technical Directors. VP of Engineering – tech team management. The role of CTO.

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Matching Incident Management Roles and Responsibilities to Process

xmatters

This isn’t to say that the existing process was bad, but like anything worthwhile it needed to evolve. We knew that responsiveness from our incident teams wasn’t an issue, as the teams have always gathered within minutes. Through this exercise we discovered that most of our incidents didn’t need large teams.

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Setting Business Goals with SLOs

Honeycomb

Meaningless goals like that are born as a result of bad communication during the goal-setting process. On a technical level, that means “a user should be able to load our home page and see a result quickly.” Because SLOs provide that ability, teams are eager to use SLOs when setting their yearly goals. Congratulations!

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The Big Picture of Business- Professional Education Necessary for Company Success

Strategy Driven

Professional education is an important ingredient in corporate development. It is usually technical or sales/marketing in nature. Employees and executives are rarely mentored on the people skills necessary to have a winning team. Employees and executives are rarely mentored on the people skills necessary to have a winning team.

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Women in Agile: Compassion at Work

Accenture

In the workplace women are often given the following advice in order to not sound like women: Don’t say “I think” or “I feel” because that’s considered weak language. So compassion is not a weak thing. Wensel advised us to use empathy at work to alleviate suffering within this circle. Stop apologizing. – Is it necessary?

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