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8 Best Practices for Writing Clean and Maintainable Code

The Crazy Programmer

JANUARY 4, 2024

In the fast-paced world of software development, writing clean and maintainable code is not just a good practice; it’s a crucial factor in determining the success of a project. Code Organization Modularization: Breaking down your code into small, manageable modules is akin to organizing a cluttered room.

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Sweep, a no-code config tool for Salesforce software, raises $28M

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Businesses often encounter challenges in configuring their customer relationship management (CRM) platforms, whether because of requirements specific to their organization or industry or a lack of institutional technical knowledge. Sweep’s visual editor for sales funnels in Salesforce software. Image Credits: Sweep.

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InnerSource, a practice that brings open-source principles to internal software development within organizations

Xebia

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

InnerSource can be defined as the application of open-source software development principles within an organization’s internal software development processes. It draws on the valuable lessons learned from open-source projects and adapts them to the context of how companies create software internally. What is InnerSource?

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Low code/no code tools reap IT benefits—with caveats

CIO

JANUARY 5, 2023

Low-code/no-code visual programming tools promise to radically simplify and speed up application development by allowing business users to create new applications using drag and drop interfaces, reducing the workload on hard-to-find professional developers. So there’s a lot in the plus column, but there are reasons to be cautious, too.

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Leveraging Content Management Software to Facilitate a Cloud-First Approach

CIO

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

By Milan Shetti, CEO Rocket Software In today’s fast-paced digital business world, organizations have become highly adaptive and agile to keep up with the ever-evolving demands of consumers and the market. Let’s take a closer look at the essential features cloud-first businesses should look for in a content management software.

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We’re all becoming software CIOs — a role Red Hat CIO Jim Palermo knows well

CIO

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Whether you sell cars, candy, consulting, or construction, software is moving to the center of your business. Your products and services rely on software and data for nearly everything from product development to aftermarket support. You’ve become (or will become) what is, essentially, a software company CIO.

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

CIO

APRIL 17, 2024

Normally, a CCO develops ideas about what the market needs and communicates them to a design team, which produces sketches to then be reviewed by the CCO. Helping software developers write and test code Similarly in tech, companies are currently open about some of their use cases, but protective of others.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: eVTOL takes off, pivoting with agility, when to hire a lawyer

TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Don’t buy a breach or a bad reputation: A more effective approach to M&A due diligence. There are many layers to M&A due diligence, but none of that matters if you only identify liabilities after the deal has closed.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO

MARCH 15, 2024

Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.

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Harden Databricks with Immuta’s Policy-As-Code framework

Perficient

MARCH 13, 2023

However, its preconfigured security can be insufficient in regulating or monitoring confidential information due to the flexibility it offers. Policy-as-code is a way to automate data security and privacy controls, allowing organizations to apply centralized policies to data science and analytics projects.

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Enterprise IT moves forward — cautiously — with generative AI

CIO

MARCH 7, 2023

Kellen, CIO at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), says employees are already using ChatGPT to write code as well as job descriptions. The models respond to written requests to generate a variety of responses ranging from text documents and images to programming code. The second is for project staffing.

Generative AI

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CIOs grapple with the ethics of implementing AI

CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

AI has whet the appetites of organizations across nearly every sector. Organizations must also consider what values guide them, and what obligations they have in terms of retraining, upskilling, and job protection. Here is a look at how CIOs are addressing ethical AI in their organizations.

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Bliki: TwoPizzaTeam

Martin Fowler

JULY 25, 2023

A two-pizza team is a small team that fully supports software for a particular business capability. The term became popular as it used to describe how Amazon organized their software staff. For small organizations, this can be a commercial platform, such as a modern cloud offering.

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3 ways Generative AI is transforming the retail industry

CIO

MAY 2, 2023

Other well-known GenAI applications can generate narrative text to summarize or query large volumes of data, generate images and video in response to descriptive phrases, or even generate complex code based on natural language questions. Caton : CarMax reviews millions of vehicles.

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Mistakes to Avoid When Moving Your Contact Center to the Cloud

CIO

AUGUST 8, 2022

The contact center has traditionally operated through on-premises servers and software, but shifting it to the cloud can help CIOs improve the customer journey. For example, many systems have carefully constructed call flows, routing rules, and natural language libraries featuring customer terminology.

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6 strategic imperatives for your next data strategy

CIO

JUNE 23, 2023

According to the MIT Technology Review Insights Survey, an enterprise data strategy supports vital business objectives including expanding sales, improving operational efficiency, and reducing time to market. The problem is today, just 13% of organizations excel at delivering on their data strategy.

Strategy

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5 key mistakes IT leaders make at board meetings

CIO

JULY 4, 2023

If you don’t join board meetings often, preparation is paramount, starting with learning about the directors’ backgrounds and reviewing minutes from previous meetings. A more recent review reports that only 51% of Fortune 100 companies and 9% of Fortune 200 through 500 organizations have a director with relevant cybersecurity experience.

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What is OKR? A goal-setting framework for thinking big

CIO

JUNE 30, 2023

OKR is a goal-setting framework that helps organizations define objectives and then track outcomes in days instead of months. They’re also typically established by leadership and they’re never tied into compensation or performance reviews. Even at the biggest organizations, it’s never advised to have more than five OKRs at one time.

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8 ways to detect (and reject) terrible IT consulting advice

CIO

JUNE 20, 2023

The problem, of course, is that many experts — even those affiliated with major organizations — are sometimes wrong. To be viable, a consultant’s solution should address each client’s unique needs, says Olexander Paladiy, product director at software product studio and consulting firm Railsware.

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CIOs in financial services embrace gen AI — but with caution

CIO

DECEMBER 27, 2023

CIO Tiago Azevedo of Boston-based low-code development platform OutSystems agrees. “In And I expect AI will become composable so it can play different roles in the organization.” For this to succeed, financial services organizations will need processes that are far more modular.

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6 best practices to develop a corporate use policy for generative AI

CIO

APRIL 14, 2023

Here are ways to get a better grasp of what these systems are capable of, and utilize them to construct an effective corporate use policy for your organization. When AI-generated code works, it’s sublime,” says Cassie Kozyrkov, chief decision scientist at Google.

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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. Martin Fowler argues that internal quality of a software system enables new features and improvements to be delivered more sustainably.

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What is digital transformation? A necessary disruption

CIO

AUGUST 9, 2023

Most CEOs (72%) continue to prioritize digital investments, according to the 2022 CEO Outlook report from KPMG, in part due to concerns about emerging and disruptive technology, a top three risk to organizational growth. Once a vanguard business strategy, digital transformation has become a perennial objective for business survival.

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White House Meeting Puts Spotlight on OSS Sustainability

DevOps.com

JANUARY 18, 2022

A recent meeting between IT industry leaders and White House officials highlighted open source software sustainability concerns as high-profile breaches and zero-day attacks have many organizations reviewing their software supply chains.

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Resilience, an introduction.

Xebia

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Organizations need a purpose. The goal of any organization is to be and stay relevant to all its stakeholders [ op’tLand-2008] , since an organization is an intentionally created cooperative of human beings [ Dietz -2013]. The challenge to our organizations is that the surrounding context is changing very quickly.

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9 tips for achieving IT service delivery excellence

CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

IT service delivery enables an organization to give end users access to essential IT services by designing, developing, and deploying key technology resources, including applications and data. But is your organization doing all it can to ensure service delivery excellence? The following nine tips will help get your there.

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Functional Domain Modeling in Kotlin

Xebia

MARCH 9, 2023

In some codebases, you can find the following primitive type based implementation of an Event : data class Event( val id: Long val title: String, val organizer: String, val description: String, val date: LocalDate ) The types used here have little or no meaning since title , organizer , and description all share the same type.

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Fixed wireless access (FWA) is a secure networking option

CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Modern security challenges Data from the Verizon 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) shows the three primary ways in which attackers access an organization are stolen credentials, phishing and exploitation of vulnerabilities. Hackers take advantage of out-of-date systems, software, and known security issues.

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What is transformational leadership? A model for motivating innovation

CIO

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Transformational leaders are change agents in the business, who can identify innovative and shifting trends in technology, and then help the organization embrace that change. Find out how to apply transformational leadership at your organization and what it means to be a transformational leader today. |

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Escaping the Cost/Visibility Tradeoff in Observability Platforms

Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2024

For developers, understanding the performance of shipped code is crucial. Through the last decade, a tablestake function in software monitoring and observability solutions has been to save and track app metrics. Limiting observability due to cost constraints hinders understanding user interactions and system performance.

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Analytics creates Extra Power for your Software Development Organization?—?Part 1: Deep dive into…

Seerene

MARCH 2, 2020

Analytics creates Extra Power for your Software Development Organization?—?Part The typical numbers you find in the real-world corporates are frightening high: Imagine you have a budget of 10 million Euros to spend on software development and only 2 million Euros can be used for value creation (see Image 1).

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Guide to Low Code development

Openxcell

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Low Code platform development has been here for a while. It is a software development approach where developers develop applications in a graphical interface, making less coding and automating the process. This results in organizations creating apps faster. What is Low Code Development?

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Customer service: five trends

Xebia

APRIL 25, 2023

Every organization has an ‘open kitchen’ due to digital customer service A restaurant chef, working in an open kitchen has to think twice about the ‘3-second rule’ when it comes to fallen food. Within many organizations, mistakes are not being dealt with adequately. Did a piece of food fall on the floor?

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The CIO at a crossroads: Evolve or become a dead-end job

CIO

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The growing use of low-code software development platforms meanwhile puts tech-creation capabilities into the hands of workers outside IT. Many organizations have appointed chief data officers and chief digital officers to oversee areas that might once have fallen under the IT chief’s compass.

Technical Review

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10 fastest growing US tech hubs for IT talent

CIO

APRIL 7, 2023

Phoenix is home to tech companies such as ADP, Workiva, ServiceNow, Traffic Tech, BigTime Software, and General Motors. Tampa alone makes up 25% of Florida’s tech jobs, with more than 50 IT and software companies located in the city and an additional 2,000 jobs expected to be added in the coming year. Tampa, Fla.

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How to Tune Construction Job Costing Software for Improving Project Tracking

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Managing a construction job can be challenging with its various aspects. Hence, it’s a given to include job costing software for all construction jobs and having regular flow between projects. Building a construction business is not child’s play and requires extensive planning and restructuring of projects.

Construction

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Fractional lands $5.5 million to let friends (and strangers) invest in real estate together

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Then, it helps facilitate the purchase through legal and financial software services. While Fractional certainly alleviates some of the financial hurdles of real estate ownership, friends may stray away from getting into business with each other due to the sheer pressure it can put on a relationship. Community is the new AI.

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Planbox 2021 Year in Review: Pushing Innovation Forward

Planbox

JANUARY 25, 2022

The current decade is a resiliency test for most organizations, largely characterized by the fundamental changes to organizational behaviors, priorities, and investments brought on by the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Markus Hautala, Head of Innovation Center, TietoEVRY.

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Countering Cognitive Biases in Software Development and User Experience Design

Tandem

MAY 2, 2023

They can have a significant impact on software development, user experience (UX), and user interface (UI) design, potentially leading to less effective solutions and a reduced user experience. In software design and product definition, confirmation bias can lead designers and analysts to overlook valuable feedback or user requirements.

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Agile Methodologies: What is the Agile Software Development Model?

Openxcell

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Agile Software Development Methodologies – Definition. Agile Workflow thus similarly translates to the simplest and effective method for software solutions. Agile Software development life-cycle is a collection of different frameworks and practices. Documentation gets less priority compared to software development.

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Our book “Software Architecture Metrics: Case Studies to Improve the Quality of Your Architecture” is published!

Apiumhub

JUNE 22, 2022

We are delighted to announce the release of our new book “ Software Architecture Metrics: Case Studies to Improve the Quality of Your Architecture ”. Global Software Architecture Summit for meeting all these software architects, who push me forward and who generate interesting discussions. ” How did it all started?

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Planbox Selected by STO Building Group to be the Home of All Innovation Activity

Planbox

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Planbox will help the global construction firm move closer to its north star vision through innovation culture enablement and tech scouting empowerment. The innovation value proposition, according to STOBG, is to develop a culture of innovation to engage in and help drive the future of construction.

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Sweep, a no-code config tool for Salesforce software, raises $28M

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InnerSource, a practice that brings open-source principles to internal software development within organizations

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TechCrunch+ roundup: eVTOL takes off, pivoting with agility, when to hire a lawyer

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CIOs in financial services embrace gen AI — but with caution

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Fixed wireless access (FWA) is a secure networking option

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Fractional lands $5.5 million to let friends (and strangers) invest in real estate together

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Planbox Selected by STO Building Group to be the Home of All Innovation Activity

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