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Mending the rift between business stakeholders and development teams

Xebia

In today’s business world, the synergy between stakeholders, product management and development teams are paramount. Customer’s problem At one of our major clients at Xebia customers complained, that the project velocity was inconsistent, while the development team seemed perpetually busy.

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8 data strategy mistakes to avoid

CIO

The proper use of unstructured data will become of increasing importance to IT leaders,” says Kevin Miller, CTO of enterprise software developer IFS. “It Decentralizing data teams Similar to creating silos, decentralizing data teams can create problems for organizations and diminish value. “An

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8 tips for cultivating a winning IT culture

CIO

Long-term success is generally the result of leaders who make a committed effort to connect directly with their teams, rather than simply issuing memos, edicts, and other top-down commands. Projects that really excite our teams.” Our IT team has an opportunity to be on the forefront of tech innovation.

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Outsourcing Software Development Best Practices

Luis Goncalves

Product development is a long and laborious process. And because of this more and more companies are using Outsourcing Software Development services to help them to reduce the time to market. More and more are complaining about performance issues and bugs. Product Management and Software Development: The Big Clash.

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OKR Guidelines: How to Set and Reach Your Goals

Luis Goncalves

OKR Guidelines. It was developed by Andy Grove of Intel and Gary Kennedy of Oracle. And how can you apply it to your team in order to boost the growth of your company? Apart from the quarterly OKRs, it would be beneficial for your team to have yearly OKRs. But what makes OKRs so powerful? OKR Best Practices.

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Writing Useful Performance Reviews: Making a raise recommendation

Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

This article is part three of my series on writing valuable performance reviews. Determining compensation is a crucial part of performance management. However, experience has shown me that even people who have all three of the trio still expect performance in their role to result in more significant compensation.

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The Good and the Bad of TypeScript

Altexsoft

This is how developers often describe the open-source programming language introduced in 2012 by Microsoft. First rolled out in 1995, JS brought interactivity to previously lifeless websites and completely changed the front end development landscape. It is also used for mobile application development. Optional static typing.