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6 best practices for better vendor management

CIO

And how well an IT leader deals with and orchestrates vendor relationships can mean the difference between a well-organized and efficient IT operation and a mess that costs an organization millions of dollars without delivering positive results. Here are several key tips for making the most of vendor relationships.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

IT leaders must rigorously assess their partners’ talent management and development strategies, build greater trust and transparency into the relationships, and invest in greater partner governance. Many of the new skills are in rare supply, as are team leaders experienced in this new development paradigm.”

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

Optimizing cloud investments requires close collaboration with the rest of the business to understand current and future needs, building effective FinOps teams, partnering with providers, and ongoing monitoring of key performance metrics. We need hard metrics because we’re running 800 instances of cloud computers.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise. Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident.

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5 rules that transform outsourcing outcomes

CIO

The model offers a significant shift away from the transaction-based model commonly used in IT oursourcing arrangements, and its rules resolve several structural flaws that can emerge in transaction-based and managed servicesagreements. Outsourcing, Vendor Management

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5 ways to measure and improve your QA Effectiveness; is your vendor up to the mark?

Trigent

The performance of software development can be measured by the difficulty and amount of code committed in a given sprint. The ‘right’ metrics to evaluate QA effectiveness depend on your organization. Hence the total number of tests in your test suite by itself isn’t a good metric or reflection of your test coverage.

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IT Leaders’ Top 5 Outsourcing Headaches

Seerene

Lately, we at Seerene have been hearing from many companies looking for better ways to manage their outsourcing vendors. Since outsourcing first gained steam during the shift to offshore development back in the ’90s, IT services have continued to evolve. Measuring outsourcing value.