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How to make your developer organization more efficient

CIO Business Intelligence

Developers are hired for their coding skills, but often spend too much time on information-finding, setup tasks, and manual processes. To combat wasted time and effort, Discover® Financial Services championed a few initiatives to help developers get back to what they do best: developing. The result?

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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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Beyond DevSecOps: Why fintech companies need to consider DevSecRegOps

CIO Business Intelligence

DevSecOps refers to development, security, and operations. As a practice, DevSecOps is a way to engrain practices in your SDLC that ensures security becomes a shared responsibility throughout the IT lifecycle. Visit Discover Technology to learn how Discover developers approach application development.

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What Executives Should Know About Shift-Left Security

CIO Business Intelligence

By Zachary Malone, SE Academy Manager at Palo Alto Networks The term “shift left” is a reference to the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) that describes the phases of the process developers follow to create an application. Why is shift-left security important in cybersecurity?

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Four Phases of Maturing Enterprise Agile Development

Social, Agile and Transformation

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Four Phases of Maturing Enterprise Agile Development.

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Need for Speed Drives Security-as-a-Service

CIO Business Intelligence

The “trust nothing, verify everything” approach can be applied throughout the software development lifecycle and extended to areas like IT/OT convergence. In fact, 75% of survey respondents say they are adopting or planning to adopt a secure software development lifecycle (SDLC).

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Daphne Jones: Envision a new career destiny

CIO Business Intelligence

You think of yourself as a business product. IT people understand the SDLC (software development life cycle) really well—and you can apply that to your personal development. What version are you now in this personalized SDLC? I’m probably at least on version 5.5 I was at version 2.0 in college and graduate school.

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