Category: IT Team

March 28, 2023

Bigfoot and the mythical 10x developer have a lot in common: Sightings are rare and not definitive. However, although many people have a fuzzy idea about what a Bigfoot looks like, the profile of the 10x developer—the developer who is […]

March 17, 2023

Sustainability is now seen as a core pillar of any successful business. As it can encompass many different topics, it is important to ensure the definition of sustainability includes carbon reduction and the net zero transition, circular economy goals, and […]

March 17, 2023

Technology work attracts neurodivergent people. So if you are leading a tech team, it’s likely that someone in your crew may be on the autism spectrum (ASD), be living with ADHD, or have an auditory processing disorder, learning disability, or […]

March 16, 2023

While crystal ball technology is notoriously fallible, tech leaders say there are a handful of changes to IT work that we’ll likely see half a decade from now. IT pros will work in environments that are more task-based than position-based, […]

March 10, 2023

Organizations that harness the power of ‘developer experience’ readily build and retain talented software developers to the benefit of the overall business. Human-centric work is a growing movement that focuses on the needs of people, reaping business rewards in the […]

March 7, 2023

A spike in IT salaries has CIOs struggling to balance budgets with business demands. Innovative cost-cutting strategies such as these are helping to counteract rising IT salaries. Since the onset of the pandemic, IT has risen in prominence as an […]

March 6, 2023

Taking full advantage of a cloud transformation requires a new approach to IT. CIOs are restructuring IT orgs and strategies to unleash talent and leave legacy processes behind. As CIO Neil Holden moved his company, Halfords Group, further into the […]

February 27, 2023

Of the 47 enterprises I chatted with in December, guess how many were NOT users of hybrid cloud. Zero. Guess how many ever used another cloud model. Zero. Guess how many believe they will “move everything to the cloud”. Zero. […]

February 21, 2023

Software developers who have been caught up in the recent surge of tech layoffs can expect to find plenty of job opportunities—they just might have to look beyond tech. Career experts say hiring remains steady in transportation, manufacturing, healthcare, and […]

January 10, 2023

Hot: Diversity, equity, and inclusion Nijah Barley, director of IT at McKissack & McKissack, says the most promising trend he’s seeing comes from forward-thinking companies focused on diversity in hiring and retainment. “Recruiters are opening the door for so much […]

December 21, 2022

1. Low user adoption rates It’s critical for organizations wanting to realize the benefits of BI tools to get buy-in from all stakeholders straight away as any initial reluctance can result in low adoption rates. “The number-one issue for our […]

November 21, 2022

Do design a fair way to assess technical skills The first question technical team leaders ask is whether they want a devops engineer on their team, but standard approaches of interviewing candidates and testing technical skills may not work very […]

November 16, 2022

A bank teller, a marketer, and an operations product owner at TruStone Financial Credit Union each had a knack for technology, but they didn’t think it would lead to a job in the IT department. Yet all three are now […]

November 15, 2022

About 10 years ago, I wrote a blog post called “Can we measure developer productivity?” In it, I discussed the many objective attempts that had been made to do it — lines of code, function points, etc. I also proposed […]

October 14, 2022

IT organizations are increasingly shifting from project-based organizational structures to product-based methodologies, which involve cross-functional teams. These new building blocks of business include both tech and business pros, and they’re generally led by a product manager, who acts as the […]

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 […]