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5 key metrics for IT success

CIO

IT leaders are drowning in metrics, with many finding themselves up to their KPIs in a seemingly bottomless pool of measurement tools. There are several important metrics that can be used to achieve IT success, says Jonathan Nikols, senior vice president of global enterprise sales for the Americas at Verizon. Here they are.

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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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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

You can of course make a series of obviously bad decisions, but you'd get fired quickly. Technology When joining, require a 6-18 months rewrite of core systems. Split systems along arbitrary boundaries: maximize the number of systems involved in any feature. Encourage communal ownership of systems.

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How Developer Observability is Transforming Dev Role

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Alongside streamlined processes and collaborative efficiency, DevOps teams need real-time access to detailed, correlative, context-rich data and analytics. Complex, distributed IT systems make it harder for us to glean meaningful data insights and resolve issues. And, in turn, so do software development responsibilities.

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Don’t let new hybrid workplaces keep the old systemic racism

TechCrunch

Systemic racism is nothing new in America, and the effects of unconscious racial bias have long created inequity in the workplace. Their children are three times as likely to grow up in poverty and stay poor throughout their lifetimes. Cravins Jr. is the executive vice president of the National Urban League.

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Computer vision transforms tennis coaching at Billie Jean King Cup

CIO

You didn’t know whether that was a good shot or a bad shot or any other context around what was going on when you played it,” Capel-Davies says. The BJK Cup is the largest annual team competition in women’s sports, with 16 national teams qualifying to compete for the prestigious title each year.

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LLMs Demand Observability-Driven Development

Honeycomb

Many software engineers are encountering LLMs for the very first time, while many ML engineers are being exposed directly to production systems for the very first time. Some of these things are related to cost/benefit tradeoffs, but most are about weak telemetry, instrumentation, and tooling. Sound at all familiar?