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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower CTO

Can you provide specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, and what the system will do for them? What are your key Startup Metrics ? What’s the state of those systems? What are some examples of similar brands? If so, will you also have your own account system? will you leverage?

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The ‘IT Business Office’: Doing IT’s admin work right

CIO

Among the unenlightened, running IT “like a business” is supposed to be best practice, delivering goods and services to internal customers who IT must fully satisfy, and who then pay for what IT delivers to them through the auspices of a charge-back system. Just formulating them well takes a lot of effort.

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Garner Health raises $45M Series B for ‘totally objective’ doctor review service

TechCrunch

When you shop for a holiday gift, you probably read at least one review. Garner Health’s bet is when you look for a doctor, you’ll want to do the same thing — but you’ll find that existing reviews aren’t enough to go on. . The end result, per Reber, is a “totally objective” review system.

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What is SAFe? A framework for scaling business agility

CIO

Apply systems thinking into all facets of development. Base milestones on objective estimation and evaluation of working systems to ensure there is an economic benefit. Lean portfolio management: By applying Lean and systems thinking, SAFe organizations ensure their entire portfolio is aligned and funded to deliver strategic value.

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Subscript wants to rid the world of subscription revenue metric spreadsheets

TechCrunch

Targeting subscription-based SaaS companies, Subscript develops APIs that grab data from CRMs, general ledgers and billing products and organizes it so the data is not only easy to find, but provides up-to-date subscription revenue metrics. Image Credits: Subscript. The finance person will have the final say on what they are seeing.

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Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments

CIO

But disaster recovery is just one example of projects that are of an important and preemptive nature that CIOs want to fund but find de-prioritized when it comes to budget approval. It’s common knowledge among CIOs that disaster recovery investments are always de-prioritized by company boards — until disaster strikes.

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

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The following are a few real-world examples of the gains leading companies are realizing. 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.