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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

You can of course make a series of obviously bad decisions, but you'd get fired quickly. Make sure production environment differs from developer environments in as many ways as possible. Develop incredibly detailed “strategic” plans. Frequently reassign underperformers to other teams. Pivot frequently.

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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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3 Ways to Discover Your Authentic Leadership Style

CIO

By Chet Kapoor, Chairman and CEO, DataStax Everyone has a point of view on leadership. After 20+ years in tech and speaking with leaders from many of the world’s most recognized brands and fastest-growing startups, I’ve learned that the most important thing about leadership is: Be yourself. What are your strengths and weaknesses?

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Developers Skill Assessment Software: Testing Beyond the Technical

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Skill assessment software has become the new buzzword in the software development industry. Recruiters are looking for highly skilled candidates to handle their software development duties. As a result, the demand for talented software developers is witnessing unprecedented growth. Higher accuracy.

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Astro emerges from stealth to connect Latin American developers with US tech companies

TechCrunch

Astro , a startup helping companies to build and manage developer teams with talent from Latin America, today exited from stealth with $13 million in Series A funding contributed by Greycroft with participation by Obvious Ventures and other unnamed investors. million by 2030. based tech companies.

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Insights from your JIRA data to help improve your team

Xebia

Many teams are using Atlassian’s JIRA as an issue tracker, which then becomes a valuable source of information for their daily operations. As a team leader utilizing JIRA, you probably have employed JIRA dashboards to monitor the status of work, usually in context of a (release) planning. “won’t fix”).

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9 tips for achieving IT service delivery excellence

CIO

IT service delivery enables an organization to give end users access to essential IT services by designing, developing, and deploying key technology resources, including applications and data. Develop a structured service catalog and adapt Achieving service delivery excellence is not a one-size-fits-all process.