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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

TechEmpower Innovation

Rapid turnover, especially of senior or “A” developers. Developers aren’t aware of the progress of the current dev cycle, or even what’s in it. And the #1 symptom relates to that old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes half the time. To find the answer, you’ll need a deep-dive analysis.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. The issue arose as a result of changes to IBM’s business model for software. In the past, IBM mostly provided enterprise software to customers who installed it on their own computers.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business Review

History suggests that the main way information technology changes management is through changes in how information is gathered: the large-scale analysis of Operations Research reflected painstaking data collection around a few metrics, which were transferred to punch cards.

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The Biggest Challenges of Data-Driven Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

Of course, software developers have long since figured out how to export data from one application to another. But changes to the original engineering bill of materials were often not moved back upstream. A Unified Data Model: Data Sharing, Not Just Data Exchange.

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What GM’S Layoffs Reveal About the Digitalization of the Auto Industry

Harvard Business Review

Likewise, where mechanical engineers once predominated, the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are increasingly looking for software engineers, energy management experts, and data scientists able to build electric and self-driving vehicles.