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Digital transformation’s fundamental change management mistake

CIO

Over the past decade, CIOs have invested significantly in digital transformation initiatives in an effort to improve customer experiences, build data analytics capabilities, and deliver productivity enhancements with automation. Unfortunately, the business impact of many digital transformations continues to fall short of expectations.

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

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. Leverage any production issue as a reason to “pull the brakes” Introduce very complex processes for code change and common workflows.

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What you need to know about product management for AI

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

If you’re already a software product manager (PM), you have a head start on becoming a PM for artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML). You’re responsible for the design, the product-market fit, and ultimately for getting the product out the door. Why AI software development is different.

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Study: 30% of Log4Shell instances remain unpatched

TechCrunch

Mehul Revankar is a cybersecurity professional with over 15 years of experience in vulnerability management, policy compliance and security operations. He leads the product management and engineering functions for VMDR (Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response) at Qualys. Share on Twitter.

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Mending the rift between business stakeholders and development teams

Xebia

Introduction How often can your organization boast about getting a steady and predictable flow of productivity? In today’s business world, the synergy between stakeholders, product management and development teams are paramount. It was revealed that significant chunks of work were wasted and thrown away.

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Lufthansa’s digital future takes flight with ‘Digital Hangar’

CIO

Those product teams need to be self-sufficient, and that means they need to be empowered to entirely develop and run a digital product.” As with so many major change programs taking place in business at present, the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic was the trigger. “It Experience is not only the cherry on the cake.”

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Zylo, a SaaS management platform, raises $31.5M

TechCrunch

A separate report from from Vertice, a SaaS purchasing and spend management platform, found that SaaS pricing is growing 4x faster than market inflation; that customers are spending 53% more on licensing than they were five years ago; and that $1 in every $8 that organizations spend is now dedicated to SaaS.