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Software project management challenges — and how to handle them

CIO

Creating and maintaining an agile culture While adopting agile makes sense for software development at many organizations, it can come with hurdles. The intersection of agile software development practices and ‘traditional’ project management remains a challenge for many organizations,” Chowning says. “By

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Liberis CTO Georgina Owens on the power of mentoring and apprenticeships

CIO

CIO: How has your career evolved to becoming an IT director/CIO/CTO? When you enter a class full of people in a strange country, and with a completely different culture, it can be very daunting, so you learn all sorts of techniques to survive. I am a jigsaw puzzle addict and find this to be a fabulous stress management tool.

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IT leaders uplift women to fill tech talent gaps

CIO

At Gusto, diversity and inclusion is baked into the corporate culture, which has helped create a cybersecurity team that is reasonably reflective of gender and racial diversity, according to Frederick “Flee” Lee, the company’s chief security officer. Grace Brosnon, chief technology officer, City of Tacoma.

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How the ‘diversity hire’ accusation and other barriers remain for Black women in tech

CIO

I work like no tomorrow,” says a project manager, working in financial services. Her comments tallied with the BCS/CBF research, which found that Black women rarely advanced into more senior technology roles, with women of all ethnicities poorly represented at IT director (17%) and programmer/software developer level (16%).

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Appetiser’s co-founders discuss building client relationships and getting to MVP

TechCrunch

“We were able to use our CTO to lead a team of six devs from the Appetiser team, with occasional UX/UI, product management and project management as needed. Shostak: With a remote-first culture, our plan was always to hire the best talent in the world. For the latter, we established the Appetiser University.

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How to hire the right product manager for your IT needs

CIO

We spoke to a host of experts, including product managers and those who supervise, hire, and mentor them, about what you should be looking for if you’re hiring a new PM for your team. Seth Dobbs, CTO at IT services and consulting firm Bounteous, gives a pretty good thumbnail sketch of what an ideal product manager would look like.

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Product-based IT: A blueprint for success

CIO

Digging through research examining the impact of standard conventions like siloed teams and staged gate processes, Arooni began percolating ideas for how to shift IT organizations away from the traditional project-oriented culture to something more agile, with greater business accountability and more responsiveness to changing customer needs. “We

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