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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower CTO

Most innovators don’t have a technical background, so it’s hard to evaluate the truth of the situation. The explanation from software leadership is often unsatisfying or unclear. And unless they have a tech background, they can’t look under the hood themselves. It also provides concrete recommendations for improvements.

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Why Having a Tech Lead or Manager as Scrum Master is a Bad Idea

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Facilitation: of all Scrum events, such as Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective. So what about having a Tech Lead or Manager fill the role of ScrumMaster? Tech Lead as ScrumMaster Tech Leads are a more traditional hierarchical role. On technical improvements or team improvements?

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Tech Leadership books

Apiumhub

The transition to tech leadership is a huge challenge. Technical leadership is different. Leading a technical team demands more than just management skills, but also technical prowess, and the ability to navigate the tech world. Remember, that learning is key to success in any leadership position.

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Despite remote work and the economic downturn, some companies look to London for expansion

TechCrunch

Barely a day goes by without news of layoffs emerging from the tech world — from cybersecurity to gaming , no industry is impervious. And closer to home, a bunch of smaller European tech companies have also extended their reach out across the English Channel with their first U.K. Cross-border investments.

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The value of Agile Architecture in a modern organization

Xebia

Mostly, this is due to the fact, that modern Agile Architecture requires a broad skill set to be done right as a business function. – Architecture helps you to make significant decisions about the key design of your IT landscape: components, systems or, domain-related. Also, do not underestimate communication skills.

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Cybersecurity Standards and Your Enterprise

CTOvision

This is an area requiring continued technical leadership or it will have little impact. But with technical leadership, good security standards can make a world of difference. COBIT stands for Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology. The standards we review above can help you address them.

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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

In orgs where it’s all about delivering tickets as quickly as possible or obsessing over technology, the culture and results are poorer. Martin Fowler argues that internal quality of a software system enables new features and improvements to be delivered more sustainably. I highly recommend his writing on the topic.