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Is it worth measuring software developer productivity? CIOs weigh in

CIO Business Intelligence

At the same time, developers are scarce, and the demand for new software is high. This has spurred interest around understanding and measuring developer productivity, says Keith Mann, senior director, analyst, at Gartner. Organizations need to get the most out of the limited number of developers they’ve got,” he says.

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Are you a Digital Trailblazer? Develop the Skills and Confidence to Lead Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

She was a developer with an innate talent for UX. A leader with big ideas but trapped supporting a website on an outdated content management system. She learned agile, led offshore development teams, and developed her confidence to become an architect on several modern SaaS platforms.

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Agile vs. Waterfall: Which Should A CIO Choose?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Which software development methodology is best? As a CIO I suspect that you are well aware that there are a number of different ways that your IT teams can go about developing software (and doing a lot of other things). It all begins with the waterfall approach to developing software.

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6 tips for successfully leading software developers

CIO Business Intelligence

Developers are notoriously grumpy and unamenable to disruption. The following perspectives will help you better understand what motivates and mystifies developers and can guide your thinking on how to be the leader your team needs. The right way to engage developers in strategic dialog is in a balance. What’s an IT leader to do?

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Why business resilience depends on software agility

CIO Business Intelligence

In a world where companies are defined by the digital services they can deliver, software agility IS business agility, and in turn results in better business outcomes. Instead of tools serving to enhance productivity, today’s developers are caught in a tangled web of tools and services just to support their day-to-day.

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Streamlining IT for agility

CIO Business Intelligence

Here, agility is essential, and smart IT leaders are doubling down on efforts to streamline IT, whether that involves reprioritizing projects and realigning the IT portfolio, rationalizing applications and pursuing cloud-native approaches, increasing automation through DevOps or AIOps adoption, or overhauling the structure of IT operations.

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Why Agile Development Should Not Own DevOps

Social, Agile and Transformation

Thanks to Ramon Monteiro @ivisualize for developing this cool visual depicting my last post on The Key to aligning Agile Dev and Stable Ops to a Successful DevOps Transformation. agile software development cio cloud computing DevOps it management leadership organizational change'

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