SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

I talk to roughly 2 or 3 new startups every week who need advice from an experienced CTO. Of course, I provide part-time CTO services. But the reality is that I engage with about 5 new startups each year which means that I end up working with less than 5% of the startups where I provide these free consulting sessions.

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CIO

AUGUST 2, 2023

Modernize with purpose Before you begin, it’s essential to tie any app modernization project to the business need that is being addressed, says Aparna Sharma, a managing partner for hybrid cloud services at IBM Consulting. Picking the right approach requires carefully studying all of the available options before making a final selection.

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The Daily WTF

AUGUST 30, 2020

The project was launched with the code name "Cold Stone", with Glenn as new CTO. New "business critical" systems were discovered under every rock, and every department in the company had a moment of, "Why weren't we consulted on this plan? "So how long will that take to test? I'll click it."

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CIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Rate of change “The most important metric for IT success is rate of change,” says Nicolas Avila, CTO for North America at IT and software development company Globant. This involves understanding how fast ideas are tested through experiments, built into working software, and eventually delivered as features to customers.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

When it comes to growth marketing, ‘so much of CRO is psychological’ Software consulting. It’s important to have a battle-tested process for product validation.

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 12, 2023

I guess I've always been fascinated with how well this has stood the test of time? I even got this particular section framed and hung up at our office: Your mission Let's say you were employed as a CTO behind the front lines and you wanted to destroy productivity for as long as you can without getting caught.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

To get a look at how Intent tailors its approach to client needs and how the company helps clients get their products from inception to the market, we spoke with Wojciech Borkowski , its head of business development, and CTO Peter Tuszynski. It’s important to have a battle-tested process for product validation.

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Mobilunity

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In this case, companies often seek the consulting support of niche specialists. IT consulting allows to boost a company’s productivity, support its growth, and increase revenues. In this article, we introduce you to the concept of IT consulting and its significance for businesses. Overview of IT Consulting.

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CircleCI

APRIL 6, 2020

It has become more and more common to have only a small fraction of a company’s codebase actually originate from developers in-house, which has contributed to the increasingly complex challenge of change validation. In response, we’ve seen a number of testing methodologies gain popularity, including the concept of “testing in production.”

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

Meanwhile, The Global CTO Survey 2023 released last November by IT consulting company STX Next found that 35% of responding tech leaders listed technical debt/refactoring as their biggest challenge — making it the No. Other executives haven’t gotten the memo, says Mikhail Papovsky, CEO and founder of Massaro Consulting.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Be proactive and serve with empathy It cannot be stressed enough how important it is to be active in ensuring that all services delivered to end users are fully vetted and tested to the point where there’s no room for complaints. It’s important to have a tested approach that starts each engagement in the same way with predictable results.

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2023

As technology projects, budgets, and staffing grew over the past few years, the focus was on speed to market to maximize opportunity, says Troy Gibson, CIO services leader at business and IT advisory firm Centric Consulting. Achieving this clear end-state vision requires deep and successful business and technology alignment,” he says.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Founded by two former Google employees on the Angular team, Jeff Cross (CEO) and Victor Savkin (CTO), Narwahl actually started out as an Angular consulting shop, helping large banks, airlines and other enterprises — the kind of companies that typically use Angular.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

What it says it does: GrowthBook is an open source platform to help companies make data-driven product decisions with feature flags and A/B tests. Founders: Co-founders Jeremy Dorn and Graham McNicoll both used to work at Education.com as chief architect and CTO respectively. Location: Palo Alto, California. Founded: 2021.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Gathering and processing data quickly enables organizations to assess options and take action faster, leading to a variety of benefits, said Elitsa Krumova ( @Eli_Krumova ), a digital consultant, thought leader and technology influencer. Nichol ( @PeterBNichol ), Chief Technology Officer at OROCA Innovations.

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GreenBar

OCTOBER 8, 2017

In a previous post I looked at how the adoption of not only cloud-based software platforms but ancillary cloud-based services has really taken off, supported by a robust ecosystem of third-party SAAS tools for project management, testing, QA, monitoring, analytics, collaboration, etc. Also published on CTO Craft.

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CIO

AUGUST 24, 2023

You need to know where the data’s coming from, how it’s transformed, and what the outputs are,” says Nick Amabile, CEO at DAS42, a data consulting firm. Retraining, deployment, operations, testing—a lot of these features just aren’t available yet.” Protecting access to sensitive data is just one part of the data governance picture.

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CIO

JUNE 26, 2023

Ross Meyercord never set out to make the leap from technology leader to CEO, but a set of intentional and opportunistic career choices delivered the breadth of business experience and leadership skills required to land the job. Neal Sample A transferable skill set Meyercord would certainly make that case.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

“This often begins during the project’s business case for funding, where we are typically asked to estimate the total outlay to be reported against in a traditional waterfall-phased framework of requirements, design, build, test and deploy,” Chowning says.

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2023

IT should maintain constant engagement with the enterprise sales team, says Vashisht, who recommends reaching a mutual agreement that both IT and sales team members should feel safe to fail as they test and evaluate new ideas. Data should be both insightful and actionable.

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

What they are finding is that the line between advancing technologically and ensuring AI doesn’t result in detrimental outcomes is thin. Those codes are regularly refreshed and tested to ensure they are as robust as possible, Cenkr adds. Here is a look at how CIOs are addressing ethical AI in their organizations.

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TechEmpower CTO

AUGUST 21, 2023

You need a team who’s well-versed in technology and capable of translating that know-how into pragmatic options. If you bring in a consultant who spends all their time doing technical reviews and hasn’t built a system since the dot-com boom, you’re probably wasting your time. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas

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Apiumhub

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Apiumhub team has interviewed Patrick Kua – seasoned technology leader with almost 20 years of experience, leading, managing and improving complex organisations and software systems as the CTO and Chief Scientist of N26 (Berlin, Germany) and as a Technical Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks.

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CIO

APRIL 30, 2024

Never pass up the opportunity to have a conversation with someone, regardless of their level or area of expertise,” suggests Kevin Miller, CTO of IFS North America. “If Open and free-to-register events scheduled by public cloud providers and other technology companies.

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Atomic Spin

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Looking to level up your consulting skills? As consultants, we juggle a lot of different concerns and goals. For example, does delivering quality software mean that you’ve had time to prove its correctness by modeling it in TLA+, that you’ve written property-based tests, or that you wrote it in a strongly-typed language?

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Palo Alto Networks

MAY 1, 2024

{{interview_audio_title}} 00:00 00:00 Volume Slider 10s 10s 10s 10s Seek Slider “AI’s Impact in Cybersecurity” is a blog series based on interviews with a variety of experts at Palo Alto Networks and Unit 42, with roles in AI research, product management, consulting, engineering and more.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

“We were able to use our CTO to lead a team of six devs from the Appetiser team, with occasional UX/UI, product management and project management as needed. Appetiser itself is relatively flat, with a huge focus on data-driven decision-making via iterative testing. Help TechCrunch find the best software consultants for startups.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The world has flipped since 2022,” says David McCurdy, chief enterprise architect and CTO at Insight. You now have the ability to jump over processes that have existed for years, sometimes decades, because of generative technology.” And when the team tested it, it was comparable to text-davinci-003 in performance.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Proven Strategies for Promoting Innovation and Technology Adoption. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Data Security—What’s New and What’s Next?

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CIO

JANUARY 16, 2024

This is fast becoming crucial, as the push for productivity gains is putting pressure on workers across the enterprise to learn to collaborate with LLMs, many of which remain in pilot testing. Chief among those foundations — at least for now — is the company’s workforce.

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Perficient

MAY 15, 2023

Services companies — particularly those with strong business consulting capabilities — are key influencers and stakeholders when Adobe customers are considering, planning, and executing transformation programs.

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CIO

MARCH 16, 2023

We will see AI usage increase in software development and testing functions shifting the role of these employees” toward higher-level, personal-touch tasks, Huffman says. Virtual and hybrid work is here to stay,” Matin says, “and I think that’s a great thing for technologists.

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Atomic Spin

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Looking to level up your consulting skills? As consultants, we juggle a lot of different concerns and goals. For example, does delivering quality software mean that you’ve had time to prove its correctness by modeling it in TLA+, that you’ve written property-based tests, or that you wrote it in a strongly-typed language?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The platform then applies machine learning and personality-trait science, and tailors product recommendations to users based on a personality test taken on sign-up. How does this personality test help? Going freelance, she worked with a number of luxury brands and platforms as an editorial consultant.

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CIO

JULY 13, 2023

As Seth Dobbs, CTO at Bounteous, explains, “We do creative work. This is true for every technology company and, increasingly, for nontechnology companies seeking to implement technical solutions. “IT leaders should expect increased competition in many talent pools and that the cost of IT talent will continue to rise.”

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Apiumhub

OCTOBER 10, 2023

He is a software engineer, consultant, and author of “Continuous Delivery”, “Modern Software Engineering,” “CD Pipelines,” and “ Software Architecture Metrics. His work emphasizes visual communication, architectural sketching, and the creation of well-structured systems that stand the test of time.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2015

Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Proven Strategies for Promoting Innovation and Technology Adoption. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Data Security—What’s New and What’s Next?

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