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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. Make sure production environment differs from developer environments in as many ways as possible. What are some things you can do? Blame the previous CTO.

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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. based tech companies.

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6 best practices for better vendor management

CIO

To ensure vendor relationship help their organizations achieve their goals, IT leaders should establish a comprehensive technology vendor management strategy focused on maximizing fit and value. A few years ago, supply-chain snags had CIOs looking for new technology,” Beasley says.

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Report: Technical Debt is Costing You More Than You Think

OverOps

Many organizations have been struggling to understand not only the cost of downtime, but how to quantify the quality of their software and what the cost is of poor quality code. A new report from the Consortium for IT Software Quality ( 1 ) covers the cost of poor software quality, shedding light on those topics. ?? NEW POST ??

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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

CIO

Business leaders expect IT to develop new products, improve customer experiences, automate workflows, and deliver new artificial intelligence capabilities. Many IT teams use agile methodologies to iteratively deliver feature-rich releases, improve capabilities, address technical debt, and experiment with emerging technologies.

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How to Calculate The ROI Of Your Tech Hiring

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The demand for technical talent is higher than ever. Our brand new edition of the State Of Developer Recruitment survey reports that over 30% of respondents are expecting to hire over 100 developers in 2022. The tech industry already has a high rate of attrition with costs of bad hires skyrocketing. Time to hire.