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Transforming IT culture for business success

CIO

Back in the day, IT culture was all about the perks. The evolving role of IT, coupled with new pandemic-era work models, has sifted the culture conversation away from in-office trappings. The evolving role of IT, coupled with new pandemic-era work models, has sifted the culture conversation away from in-office trappings.

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Headcount goals, feature factories, and when to hire those mythical 10x people

Erik Bernhardsson

Many fellow CTOs, some went for the other side of the spectrum: bootcamps and campus recruiting are great recruiting grounds for them. I’ve seen how recruiting bars start slipping because of well-meaning people pushing for more resources. This was a mystery to me, until it all made sense to me. Headcount goals. I’ve seen it.

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Headcount goals, feature factories, and when to hire those mythical 10x people

Erik Bernhardsson

I’ve seen how recruiting bars start slipping because of well-meaning people pushing for more resources. When I started building up a tech team for Better , I made a very conscious decision to pay at the high end to get people. I thought this made more sense: they cost a bit more money to hire, but output usually more than compensates for it.

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What you need to know about product management for AI

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

If you’re already a software product manager (PM), you have a head start on becoming a PM for artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML). You already know the game and how it is played: you’re the coordinator who ties everything together, from the developers and designers to the executives.

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Building a Better Middleman

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In the previous article , I explored the role of the middleman in a two-sided marketplace. The term “middleman” has a stigma to it. Mostly because, when you sit between two parties that want to interact, it’s easy to get greedy. Greed will bring you profits in the short term. Probably in the long term, as well.

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Employee Spotlight: Mark Richman

Linux Academy

Mark Richman, AWS Training Architect. “Taking courses is great, doing Hands-On Labs is even better. But the best thing you can do is build something for someone else to use.” ” If you’re here to fully understand Mark Richman in his entirety, you’re going to need to keep digging. The early, nerdy years.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

It’s easy because, in most cases, they can start with one of the many off-the-shelf Agile methods, like the one in this book. Second Edition cover. This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Your feedback is appreciated! How to Be Agile. It’s action that matters.

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