Category: IT Team

September 21, 2022

Not every IT project can be completed end-to-end with in-house talent. For CIOs who lack the full-time technical resources needed for deploying a solution, such as an ERP or a CRM system, often for the first time in their organizations, […]

September 16, 2022

Developers are notoriously grumpy and unamenable to disruption. They tend to want to continue working until they arrive at a place of completion and satisfaction. That’s all well and good unless they’ve lost sight of the bigger picture. What’s an […]

September 15, 2022

As IT and application environments increasingly move toward complex, cloud-based microservices, technology professionals have bold plans to ramp up observability capabilities to get ahead of network-based issues that could affect customer experience and application security, yet actually doing so across […]

July 20, 2022

With an undergraduate degree in political science and time spent as a Peace Corps and AmeriCorps volunteer, Lain McGrath hardly envisioned a career in software engineering. Yet after onboarding at HR SaaS provider Gusto in a customer experience (CX) role, […]

July 11, 2022

Are we in a recession? The answer seems to be “definitely maybe,” with the Wall Street Journal reporting that “if the U.S. is in a recession, it’s a very strange one” because while economic output has been falling, the job […]

July 8, 2022

For software developers, the agile methodology is not a new concept – it’s been around for decades in one form or another. In 2001, a group of individuals wrote The Agile Manifesto, outlining 12 guiding principles for the agile methodology […]

June 28, 2022

The world has become far more complicated. For businesses, the need to balance employee safety, changed expectations about how and where we work and the changing threat landscape have changed the very nature of how we use our computers. While […]

April 8, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a massive diaspora from the office, at least for knowledge workers. According to a recent study, a quarter of all high-paying jobs will be remote in the next 12 months. This has the potential to […]

April 6, 2022

The pandemic has given IT workers far more freedom when it comes to working remotely, according to research by Computer Weekly. The annual Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT salary survey asked IT workers how their working arrangements have changed since the start […]

April 1, 2022

In the digital age, the success, growth, and maximization of opportunities of an organization depend on insights gained from data. Analytics and business intelligence (ABI) tools enable organizations to drive greater meaning from their data to protect revenue streams, minimize […]

March 14, 2022

Effectively developing and growing a positive and innovative culture is easily one of the top objectives for most IT organizations and companies today. It is also one of the more challenging goals given the adversities of the past two years […]

February 25, 2022

The pandemic may have been the kick to get everyone on board for work-from-home but, two years in, workers have made it clear that flexible work is no longer optional. According to a Gartner study, a company’s work-from-anywhere policy has […]

January 31, 2022

Organizations have been talking about the pivot to hybrid work for so long now that the successful shift to a work-from-anywhere environment may seem like a foregone conclusion. “From an IT perspective, the pandemic has already provided a trial run […]

January 12, 2022

Research has found that remote access technologies have contributed to helping IT leaders feel less stressed at work. However, the 3Gem study for Splashtop, based on a pole of 1,000 IT decision-makers at small, medium and large organisations, reported that […]

December 29, 2021

As the world adapted to work from home orders and began operating in more distributed, remote teams over the past two years, one common refrain from software developers was the lack of a truly remote alternative to a whiteboard. Whether […]

December 20, 2021

There are fewer opportunities for people from under-represented groups in the UK’s tech sector to hold leadership positions, according to research by Thoughtworks. Looking into figures from the BCS, Thoughtworks found that of the 300,000 IT specialists from ethnic minorities […]

December 13, 2021

As the broader labor market tightens, workers in the IT sector remain scarce with an unemployment rate of 2.2%. Along with software developers and security analysts, some of the hardest to find IT workers are QA professionals. Even more scarce […]

December 8, 2021

When Steven Palmese moved into the CIO role at Presidio two years ago, he found an IT department delivering technologies through a project-based approach using waterfall development methods for some tasks and agile practices for others. Palmese knew that wasn’t […]

November 30, 2021

Remote workers have had to cope with serious technical issues while working from home since the Covid-19 outbreak began, according to research from Apogee Corporation. The study of more than 2,000 office workers from the managed workplace services provider revealed […]

November 29, 2021

At some companies, it seems as though IT teams have transformed from company scapegoat to company G.O.A.T. (greatest of all time). Amidst a momentous digital transformation, IT teams were essential in easing the massive business disruptions of 2020 and 2021 […]