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The value of Agile Architecture in a modern organization

Xebia

It can refer to all applications or systems you need to align with the business strategy. Of course, Portfolio management can also take care of this aspect, but in practice, we must focus on the skills required. That implies that you cannot limit the role of architecture to one single person within a growing organization.

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Should You Build in-house or Outsource Development of Your Mobile Apps?

CTOvision

This post is the continuation of a series discussing why a CTO makes or breaks your enterprise mobile strategy and in case you’ve missed it we have already discussed how to choose between building native apps vs. adopting the mobile web. Over the course of time existing team members will take significant new skills to develop their career.

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Tech Leadership books

Apiumhub

The transition to tech leadership is a huge challenge. Technical leadership is different. Leading a technical team demands more than just management skills, but also technical prowess, and the ability to navigate the tech world. to produce great technology strategies. And he shows how you can, too.

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How engineering managers can effectively support engineers, teams, and organizations

CircleCI

It is a mix of hands-on coding, technical leadership and decision making, process and project management, product oversight, people management, finding and hiring talent … the list goes on. We also want goals, strategy, and direction to be consistent – and to not change too quickly. Predictability. Drive toward alignment.

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How IT and the Role of the CIO is Changing in the Era of Networked Organizations

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

To ensure flexibility and agility required by our M&A strategy, I am pursuing a 100 percent SaaS technology portfolio. We acquire SaaS services, value add them with high-caliber functional support and project management and offer them as a service to the primarily functional teams at our businesses.

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Founder Challenges with Startup Development Teams and CTOs

SoCal CTO

Unfortunately, having a technical background and being a good coder doesn''t necessarily translate well into being a good CTO. Strategy, Planning, Key Relationships and R&D. A lot of founders will wait and hope that the technical leadership can sort it out. Of course, turning around these issues will take some time.

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The ‘Chocolate Sauce’ Design Heuristic

Strategic Tech

The domain expertise required in each context, the existing organisational structure, technical debt, the long-term business strategy, and hundreds of other factors can determine the optimal design at any point in time. So remember to always keep the chocolate sauce heuristic in mind: Classification is multi-dimensional.