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Selecting a Software Development Company in 2024

TechEmpower CTO

million software developers worldwide. Given this diversity, it's important to be selective in the development services company with whom you choose to partner. Do you anticipate scale issues presently or in the future? You'll discover firms that are prolific in design/interface and light on development, and vice versa.

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Startup CTO or Developer

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But be careful, and mind the gap – the Founder-Developer Gap, that is! Hiring a hands-on lead developer might seem like the right move for an early stage startup. It’s understandable - a hands-on developer can produce a product. Founder-Developer Gap How big is your startup’s Founder-Developer Gap?

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The CIO’s primary job: Developing future IT leaders

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But it is equally vital to identify those people who can develop into managers and create a path forward for them as well. In my opinion, the reason many IT departments have decided to go outside IT to bring in CIOs is because IT has not fostered the kind of environment that develops these types of professionals.

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Presenting to Executives: How to Have More Confidence

Let's Grow Leaders

When presenting to executives, don’t forget what makes you an expert. But, if you stumble through the presentation, you’ll likely end up with a pile of action items just to prove the project is in good hands. Follow these tips to have more confidence when presenting to executives. It’s natural to feel nervous.

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Building Evolvable Architectures

Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Parsons, CTO of ThoughtWorks

The software development ecosystem exists in a state of dynamic equilibrium, where any new tool, framework, or technique leads to disruption and the establishment of a new equilibrium. Join Dr. Rebecca Parsons, CTO at ThoughtWorks, as she presents: How to build evolvable solutions.

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Here are all of the companies presenting at Alchemist Accelerator’s 30th Demo Day today

TechCrunch

As with Alchemist’s last few Demo Days, today’s presentations will be entirely virtual and streamed on YouTube. PDT, with 19 companies presenting in all. A list of the companies presenting today follows below plus a bit about what each is doing as I understand it. Pitches are scheduled to start at 10:30 a.m.

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Meet the 7 winners of the Taiwan Excellence awards, presented by ShowStoppers and TAITRA

TechCrunch

Ahead of the official start of CES, the Taiwan Excellence awards were announced by non-profit trade promotion group Taiwan External Trade Development Council (known as TAITRA ) and ShowStoppers , giving a preview of what its startups offer. Awards went to seven startups, while eleven other companies also presented.

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Product Design & Customer Experience: An Innovative View on Inclusive Product Development

Speaker: Dan Jenkins - Human Factors & Research Lead – DCA Design International

The presentation will be packed full of real-world examples of great inclusive design (covering household products and digital services), alongside a few more detailed case studies explaining how inclusive design can be embedded successfully in the design process. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours!

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Data Analytics in the Cloud for Developers and Founders

Speaker: Javier Ramírez, Senior AWS Developer Advocate, AWS

Javier Ramirez will present: The typical steps for building a data lake. Is your data secure? In this session, we address common pitfalls of building data lakes and show how AWS can help you manage data and analytics more efficiently. A live demo of lake formation. Navigating idle clusters and bottlenecks.

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Building User-Centric and Responsible Generative AI Products

Speaker: Shyvee Shi - Product Lead and Learning Instructor at LinkedIn

This presentation unveils a comprehensive 7-step framework designed to navigate the complexities of developing, launching, and scaling Generative AI products. Attendance of this webinar will earn one PDH toward your NPDP certification for the Product Development and Management Association.

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UX and Design Tips for Better Dashboards: Product Manager Laura Klein Explains How to Improve Your Analytics

Speaker: Laura Klein, Principal at Users Know and Author of UX for Lean Startups

You'll learn: How to develop products that boost your business's bottom line while dramatically improving customer experience. How to avoid common mistakes people make when presenting data. Join Laura as she offers prescriptive advice you can apply to your application, plus new ways to approach empathetic design.

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The 5 Product Discovery Secrets Every PM Should Know

Speaker: Jim Morris, Founder, Product Discovery Group

During this presentation, attendees will hear case studies, examples, and best practices gleaned from Jim's 25 years of using the Product Discovery Cycle. Developing multiple solutions to address your customers' major pain points. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours!

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Why Distributed Tracing is Essential for Performance and Reliability

Speaker: Daniel "spoons" Spoonhower, CTO and Co-Founder at Lightstep

Together these have enabled individual service teams to become more independent and, as a result, have boosted developer velocity. Distributed tracing was developed at organizations like Google and Twitter to address these problems and has also come a long way in the decade since then.

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Fail Well, Pivot Fast: Product Experimentation for Continuous Discovery

Speaker: William Haas Evans - Principal Consultant, Head of Product Strategy & Design Practice, Kuroshio Consulting

From a product discovery/product management perspective, the purpose of experimentation is to focus our efforts on invalidating our assumptions to reduce the risk of developing and going-to-market with the wrong product. The purpose and value of experimentation (from a scientific and product perspective) is to produce new information.

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Roadmap Personas: The Best Way to Set Expectations for Teams, Clients, and Leadership

Speaker: Johanna Rothman - Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

Join Johanna Rothman as she discusses developing persona-specific roadmaps and the reasons why sometimes less is more. To address this, consider roadmaps as products and establish personas for each viewer. Then, you can decide which information to give to each persona.