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Emphasizing the Dev in DevOps

Xebia

The term “DevOps” was supposed to be a method to bridge the gap between Developers and Operations and create self-sufficient, autonomous teams. Questions, requests and problems may have to be thrown across the fence for the “DevOps team” to solve, while the developer who built the software has to wait. Does it perform? Does it scale?

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

It’s no longer a question of whether organizations are moving to the cloud but rather how well it’s going. Following are some hard questions IT leaders should ask about their cloud strategy today. Why are we really going to cloud? To figure out where you’re going, you first need to know where you are.

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Why IT projects still fail

CIO

IT organizations have worked hard to get away from the problems that had plagued their past project delivery processes. Or failure may mean a project doesn’t produce returns, runs so late as to be obsolete when completed, or doesn’t engage users who then shun it in response. So what’s going on? Some studies bear that out.

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How to build a sales development representative strategy that will fill your B2B pipeline

TechCrunch

More posts by this contributor Why it’s so hard to market enterprise AI/ML products and what to do about it Across the dozens of enterprise tech companies that I’ve had the pleasure of working with, pipeline (the quantity and quality of sales qualified opportunities), is the primary driver of go-to-market success.

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Aflac’s Rich Gilbert on the 7 Cs of top IT leaders

CIO

I speak technology so I can communicate with our technology team. I also speak strategy, so I can communicate with our board. I speak financials, so I can communicate with our CFO. I speak value, so I can communicate with our chairman and CEO about what we’re able to deliver. The promotion and title are well deserved.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Big Data’s cloud backlash, CVC pitch tips, de-risking hardware startups

TechCrunch

Because “the great repatriation” now taking place among public companies also has direct implications for startup DevOps teams, Robinson shares suggestions for “a few things that can be done to ensure future flexibility for where workloads are created.” “There’s no need to constantly reinvent the wheel,” he advises.

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Encore’s $3M seed deck

TechCrunch

I wanted to take a look at this deck in more detail, in particular, because it tells a really elegant story in a market where it’s extraordinarily hard to differentiate yourself — both to your customers and to investors! 21 — “Grow through word of mouth by nurturing a community of builders” – go-to-market slide.