Category: IT Team

July 18, 2024

Developer productivity is neither well-understood nor enabled, according to Atlassian’s just-released State of Developer Experience Report 2024. The report also found that interest in the developer experience, or DX, is growing but efforts are lagging. Announced July 15 and accessible at atlassian.com, […]

June 25, 2024

You will find a lot of articles on the web about what it takes to become a senior developer. Many of these articles focus on soft skills. They often advise staying current with technology, learning to communicate well, mentoring junior […]

June 19, 2024

IT leaders are reassessing organizational structures to be more on the front foot regarding strong skills sets, collaborative team culture, and the right tooling. Three years ago BSH Home Appliances completely rearranged its IT organization, creating a digital platform services […]

June 10, 2024

When the browser began, it was just a window for displaying some text and maybe a few images. It was just a new way to distribute the same kind of documents that you might find on a coffee table, like […]

May 15, 2024

Over the course of the last decade, enterprise-wide cybersecurity has increasingly become a business priority. With a renewed focus on each organization’s need to protect itself from a wide range of threats, board-level professionals have realized the value CIOs can […]

May 10, 2024

Data from Dice sheds light on 10 enterprise mainstay skills where IT pros who have honed their craft to expert level can earn five-figure salary premiums. The list of highest-paying IT skills is always shifting as technology evolves, but some […]

May 6, 2024

About a decade ago, I was a CIO evaluating a technology solution and I shared our primary requirements with a prospective vendor’s rep. He demoed at least three products from the company’s portfolio. Each tool had its own user experience, […]

April 22, 2024

CIOs are transforming their tech organizations to deliver business value and new revenue streams by reshaping culture, processes, and team constructions — all while instilling a business-first mindset in all things IT. At 75 years old, accounting and advisory firm […]

April 16, 2024

As of the first quarter of 2024, 83% of developers were involved in devops-related activities such as performance monitoring, security testing, or CI/CD, according to the State of CI/CD Report 2024, published by the Continuous Delivery (CD) Foundation, a part […]

March 25, 2024

When there’s a major systems outage or performance issue, IT teams come to the rescue to restore services as quickly as possible. Some IT organizations follow IT service management (ITSM) incident management practices to restore service, then follow problem management […]

March 15, 2024

Consider these statistics: 75% of IT decision-makers have reported gaps in the skill sets of their IT staff – and this is a 145% increase over the past seven years, reported Skillsoft. Six in 10 large enterprises reported a skills […]

February 19, 2024

Officials at the North Carolina Department of Information Technology found themselves in a position familiar to most IT organizations: aware of the need to do more to attract IT workers given that they — like most employers — faced fierce […]

February 13, 2024

While the past few years have left us with a business landscape scarred by the impact of economic and geopolitical uncertainties, the current AI movement has become a rocket ship for significant transformative changes set to accelerate new opportunities. Alongside […]

February 7, 2024

When public access to the internet emerged in the late 1990s, CIOs were faced with a question: Do we allow our employees to search freely, or do we put restrictions on access while at work? We all know how that […]

February 6, 2024

The question of the day is no longer “What’s the best cloud?” It’s now “How do we build a team of people to build a net-new generative AI system?” Budgets have dropped. The board of directors wants one of these […]

February 2, 2024

For women who aspire to leadership roles in IT, the climb to the top can be particularly arduous — and lonely. Just 28% of IT leadership roles are filled by women, according to DDI’s 2023 Global Leadership Forecast, and many […]

February 2, 2024

Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, generative AI (genAI) has become a high priority for enterprise CEOs and boards of directors. A PwC report, for instance, found that 84% of CIOs expect to use genAI to support a […]

January 31, 2024

The biggest companies in the world are keeping tech workers’ wages low by buying up companies instead of hiring their talent, creating an increasingly limited number of potential workplaces for developers and other high-tech professionals — all while draining talent […]

January 11, 2024

When I last dedicated an episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast to the state of tech talent, we were just coming out of a multi-year “sellers” market, and we could sense that we were hitting an inflection point. Fast-forward a […]

January 9, 2024

At some time or another, you have almost certainly looked around your workplace and wondered why it doesn’t seem to operate as well as you think it should. It could be processes that don’t seem to work, too many meetings […]