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The startup CIO’s guide to formalizing IT for liquidity events

CIO

It just crossed $100M in revenue and is approaching a major liquidity event, such as an IPO. But as you speak with an expanding cadre of lawyers, accountants, and bankers, you start to appreciate what such an event means for your department. You see the systems that must be repaired (or built) if the firm is to comply with SOX.

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Twitter exposes secrets, FTC clamps down on review hijackers and Android 14 arrives

TechCrunch

It’s Week in Review (WiR) , the (more or less) regular newsletter that recaps the top stories from the past few days written by the talented TC team. Elsewhere in events land, don’t forget that Disrupt, TechCrunch’s annual flagship conference, kicks off September 19. Hijacked reviews: The U.S. Hello, friends.

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Athenian gives you metrics about your engineering team without focusing on individuals

TechCrunch

Athenian wanted to start over from scratch and focus on teams and events instead of individuals. When you start using the product, you first connect it to various data sources, such as GitHub, Jira and your CI/CD system. The startup breaks down your pipeline in several categories, such as ‘plan & design’, ‘review’ and ‘release’.

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Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments

CIO

Despite these challenges, having an up-to-date disaster recovery plan that works and guaranteeing a robust network, security, and systems support framework for new business directions are foundational elements of IT that can’t be ignored — and should be funded. When these additional costs appear, the original ROI prognosticators get unhappy.

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How Value Stream Management is fueling success at Boeing, Tyson, and Verizon

CIO

“Before we adopted value stream management and our sophisticated processes, we actually had no idea what work was being done in each of our organizations,” Lynda Van Vleet, Boeing’s portfolio management systems product manager. The organization changed legacy approaches to product management and project investment. Digital Transformation

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Escaping the Cost/Visibility Tradeoff in Observability Platforms

Honeycomb

Through the last decade, a tablestake function in software monitoring and observability solutions has been to save and track app metrics. There is a level of modern system complexity where relying on metric collection spirals into cost inefficiency. Each new host, pod, node, or service adds to the bill.

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Unmuted founder Max van den Ingh on success beyond the metrics

TechCrunch

Relying on proven tactics and measurable metrics isn’t enough — today, the most effective marketers constantly study and learn from innovative approaches while exploring new avenues. I feel this “belief system” is truly essential to any growth marketing strategy. This is where Unmuted comes in.

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