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NJVC Cloud Expert Kevin L. Jackson Launches Second Book: GovCloud II: Implementation and Cloud Brokerage Services

Cloud Musings

This handbook, geared to IT professionals and senior decision makers in both the public and private sectors, explains how the cloud computing. Too often in the past federal IT projects ran over budget, were. as a service and software as a service—and why the use of cloud. without commensurate increases in resource expenditures.

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Scrumfall: When Agile becomes Waterfall by another name

CIO Business Intelligence

With Waterfall methods masquerading as Scrum — call it Scrumfall — businesses are reasserting top-down micromanagement, fortifying silos, fettering flexibility, and commoditizing software engineers as mere cogs cranking out code. Necessary because of the inherent complexity and indeterminacy of software engineering.

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26 essential book recommendations by and for IT leaders

CIO Business Intelligence

Consider Johnson’s book a handbook on scaling your organization through its most vital resource: its people. This book is mind-bending because it translates the complex theories behind the socio-technical aspects of software development and delivery into a set of easy-to-understand patterns.

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