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How Can CIOs Avoid Wasting Their Budget?

The Accidental Successful CIO

All too often they end up building something new rather than buying off the shelf. The answer is that CIOs are not using business metrics to influence investment. However, this is where things can start to get a bit complicated. Where Is The Money Going? Let’s face it, our companies spend a lot of money on technology.

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Glass rethinks the smartphone camera through an old-school cinema lens

TechCrunch

Smartphone cameras have gotten quite good, but it’s getting harder and harder to improve them because we’ve pretty much reached the limit of what’s possible in the space of a cubic centimeter. It may not be obvious that cameras won’t get better, since we’ve seen such advances in recent generations of phones.

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Book review: Accelerate

Henrik Warne

DevOps in this context means things like continuous delivery, automated tests, trunk-based development, and proactive monitoring of system health. Many aspects of software development are hard to measure. I really liked that the authors have thought hard about what to measure in order to get objective yet useful metrics.

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Breaking the Deadlock Between User Experience and Developer Experience

A List Apart

Even in developed nations, people on mobile devices see spotty coverage, flaky wifi connections, and coverage interruptions (like train tunnels or country roads). In early 2013, less than 14% of all web traffic came from mobile devices; today, that number has grown to 53%. UX and performance have issues in practice. My sister loves dogs.

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What you need to know about product management for AI

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

You already know the game and how it is played: you’re the coordinator who ties everything together, from the developers and designers to the executives. Why AI software development is different. You’re responsible for the design, the product-market fit, and ultimately for getting the product out the door.

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Four Questions to Manage Your Value Stream

CollabNet VersionOne

One of the main reasons teams set out on a DevOps journey is because they want their organizations to continuously improve. They don’t know how to begin because there are multiple places to start; further more choosing the wrong starting location or worse, derailing, can start or set the entire business off course.

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

Altexsoft

With product teams becoming as significant as the engineering and marketing departments, the companies start to search for a person to bring a deeper product perspective. No matter the company size or the level of management, the activities of a product team fall into three different types — tactical, operational, and strategic.

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