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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO

But Southwest’s technology was also cited by experts and the company’s leadership as contributing to the calamity. “IT In 2017, Fast Company wrote that Southwest Airlines’ digital transformation “takes off” with an $800 million technology overhaul, but only $300 million was dedicated to new technology for operations. 30, “We’re behind.

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Transforming IT culture for business success

CIO

In lieu of integrating and customizing off-the-shelf enterprise applications such as Salesforce or SAP, Power Home Remodeling has constructed its own proprietary NITRO platform used to run and optimize all aspects of the business and customer experience. Back in the day, IT culture was all about the perks.

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Chief Product Officer: Background, Skills Required, and Whether You Need One

Altexsoft

Why and when do companies need another C-level executive — a chief product manager or CPO? How does this position facilitate business growth and how is it different from a CTO or VP of Product? Who is a Chief Product Officer? Small companies typically don’t have a CPO, being comfortable with product managers.

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Making Software Development Teams Hum with Ron Lichty

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Is your team running so smoothly that it hums? In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Ron Lichty, discuss what makes high-performance teams versus what makes low-performance teams. Most teams already know which category they fall into, but the solution to a low-performing team isn’t always clear.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. For a team to be Agile, they need to change their method to reflect the Agile philosophy.

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Product-aligned vs Capability-aligned Organisation Design

Strategic Tech

There are broadly two dominant approaches used to organise teams in modern organisations that have moved beyond traditional activity-oriented organisation design (organising people by their specific skill). One perspective is to organise teams ‘vertically’, aligned with the company’s products.

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How to Launch a Successful Product: Timing, Roles, and Product Launch Checklist 

Altexsoft

Vendors spend months or years designing and building an app, but one mistake during the product release can put the whole project at risk of failure. Maybe a team didn’t prioritize the features and lost a lot of time and money fixing too many mistakes. Why did you favor this tool over the thousands of similar ones? A huge event.

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