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Rackspace’s Brian Lillie on the importance of leadership principles

CIO

Brian Lillie is president of Private Cloud at Rackspace and had previous technology leadership roles at Equinix, Verisign, SGI, and the United States Air Force, so he’s worked hard to define his leadership style. With these values clearly defined, Lillie had a new question: “How do I apply these values to leadership?”

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17 professional organizations for Black IT pros

CIO

Moreover, Black IT pros — even those in leadership positions — still encounter unique challenges both in the workplace and in their career paths. AABE awards $350,000 annually in scholarships to students in energy-related tech fields and offers a career center for job seekers and employers.

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Data-driven Software Engineering: How to Avoid Common Problems

Exadel

It also plays an important role in the work of software engineers by providing accurate, actionable feedback that helps engineers understand where and how to make improvements to a product or process. When used correctly, KPIs and OKRs are valuable tools for data-driven software engineering. Source: Exadata.

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Software Engineer Qualification Levels: Junior, Middle, and Senior

Altexsoft

The Seven Stages of Expertise in Software Engineering. This is another approach to classifying expertise in software engineering by Meilir Page-Jones. Although originally used to evaluate software engineering in the ‘90s, the approach can be easily reapplied to our reality. The Productivity Curve.

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Dawn of a new day for Africa: building a modern digital economy

CIO

African developers are creating more open-source repositories on the Github software engineering marketplace than any other continent globally, and investment in African start-ups is growing twice as fast as other global markets. The population is simultaneously becoming much more prosperous, with consumer spending growing at 9.4%

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LexisNexis rises to the generative AI challenge

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Since its origins in the early 1970s, LexisNexis and its portfolio of legal and business data and analytics services have faced competitive threats heralded by the rise of the Internet, Google Search, and open source software — and now perhaps its most formidable adversary yet: generative AI, Reihl notes. The meeting consensus?

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A guide to productivity for software engineers

CircleCI

When you start your career as a software engineer, task and time management is pretty straightforward. Growing in your engineering career and taking on a leadership role requires a new approach to productivity. Each month (or quarter) I pick only 3 focus areas where I am going to put most of my energy.