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5 dead-end IT skills — and how to avoid becoming obsolete

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

To this end, we considered which skills could be rendered obsolete in the next few years, thanks to technical advances, and how IT pros can reinvent their skills offerings to avoid ending up with an IT career that’s not long for this world. In software development today, automated testing is already well established and accelerating.

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10 most in-demand enterprise IT skills

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Python Python is a programming language used in several fields, including data analysis, web development, software programming, scientific computing, and for building AI and machine learning models. Oracle enjoys wide adoption in the enterprise, thanks to a wide span of products and services for businesses across every industry.

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7 sins of software development

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Software development is a challenging discipline built on millions of parameters, variables, libraries, and more that all must be exactly right. Still, it’s impossible to list the endless innovations that software alone has made possible. Over the years software teams have figured out a few rules for getting the job done.

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The early returns on gen AI for software development

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2024

Generative AI is already having an impact on multiple areas of IT, most notably in software development. Still, gen AI for software development is in the nascent stages, so technology leaders and software teams can expect to encounter bumps in the road. “It One example is with document search and summarization.

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Is it worth measuring software developer productivity? CIOs weigh in

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2023

“Focusing on innovation and tech deployment helps pinpoint and eliminate obstacles that impede tech teams,” she says, adding that while measuring software development production is essential for IT digitalization, it also requires a careful rollout to maintain a healthy team dynamic.

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AI-native software engineering may be closer than developers think

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Developers unimpressed by the early returns of generative AI for coding take note: Software development is headed toward a new era, when most code will be written by AI agents and reviewed by experienced developers, Gartner predicts.

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Lessons from the field: How Generative AI is shaping software development in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Generative AI has forced organizations to rethink how they work and what can and should be adjusted. Specifically, organizations are contemplating Generative AI’s impact on software development. AI won’t replace developers Generative AI has introduced a level of software development speed that didn’t exist before.

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Beyond the hype: 4 use cases that show what’s actually working with gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

According to experts and other survey findings, in addition to sales and marketing, other top use cases include productivity, software development, and customer service. Use case 2: software development PGIM also uses gen AI for code generation, specifically using Github Copilot. Youve got that down to a science, he says.

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6 tips for successfully leading software developers

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

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. Cultivate business awareness. That’s all well and good unless they’ve lost sight of the bigger picture. What’s an IT leader to do?

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12 AI predictions for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The fields of customer service, marketing, and customer development are going to see massive adoption, he says. He expects the same to happen in all areas of software development, starting with user requirements research through project management and all the way to testing and quality assurance.

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When is data too clean to be useful for enterprise AI?

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

You can’t treat data cleaning as a one-size-fits-all way to get data that’ll be suitable for every purpose, and the traditional ‘single version of the truth’ that’s been a goal of business intelligence is effectively a biased data set. For AI, there’s no universal standard for when data is ‘clean enough.’

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7 types of tech debt that could cripple your business

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

Open source dependency debt that weighs down DevOps As a software developer, writing code feels easier than reviewing someone elses and understanding how to use it. One area CIOs can control is governing whether and how to implement customization to avoid business rule complexities wired into code.

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Software project management challenges — and how to handle them

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The need for efficient software development has taken on greater importance as enterprises introduce more and more digital services and add automation capabilities to enhance business processes. Managing software projects might not be at the top of CIOs’ priority lists , but it is something that IT leaders will have to master.

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How to get started with AI to speed software delivery

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It’s already optimizing employee experiences and business workflows, including software development. And when software agility increasingly correlates with business success, adopting AI to speed up app development and enable developer velocity will be table stakes for any modern business.

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‘The key is the cloud’: How to keep up with the speed of innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 6, 2022

Shamim Mohammad, EVP and chief information and technology officer at CarMax , will present a case study on how the cloud enables the company’s signature “Instant Offer” feature. Cham will also lead a live discussion on cloud, and other technology investments, can be used as catalysts for building business value.

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How to manage data integration during an acquisition

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Software development Software development is another crucial reason why well-managed and up-to-date data is crucial. When organizations leverage DevOps practices in their software development processes, testing applications in isolated environments is no longer sufficient.

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How to build a successful agile development culture – and why your business needs one

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 20, 2024

To keep pace with the growing complexity of software development, organizations have spent years working to implement agile practices into their developer experience. What causes agile failure Most agile practices fail due to a rising number of misconceptions and misunderstandings of what agile is and how to apply it.

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Scaling security: How to build security into the entire development pipeline

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 31, 2023

That’s why Discover® Financial Service’s product security and application development teams worked together to shift security left by integrating security by design and conducting early security testing often to identify vulnerabilities prior to hitting deployment. “If That’s where our Golden Process documents can help.

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6 ways you’re failing at change management

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 31, 2024

You wouldnt hire someone who doesnt know how to write code to develop your software, so why would you expect a project manager or business analyst to drive change management? Change management is a specialized discipline, just like business analysis, user experience development, or business analysis.

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The 10 most in-demand tech jobs for 2023 — and how to hire for them

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2023

Certifications to look for include the Docker Certified Associate (DCA), Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, and Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert.

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Altman now says OpenAI has not yet developed AGI

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 20, 2025

According to Jackson, CIOs arent sitting in ivory tower offices discussing the virtues of one AGI benchmark over another; theyre asking their software developers to automate complex knowledge-based tasks and processes with foundation models.

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The dark arts of digital transformation — and how to master them

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 2, 2023

He had to figure out how to get on the same page with people who often had very different ideas about how to proceed. As co-founder of Kessel Run, the USAF’s agile software development lab, he knows a thing or two about how to deal with deeply hierarchical organizations.

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How to hire the right product manager for your IT needs

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Dobbs says he also looks for adaptability given the rapid changes that often evolve in a product-based environment, in addition to the ability to “meet deadlines, budgets, and the overall business strategy as they work through these tradeoffs,” he says. She adds: “I love that part of the job, teaching young PMs how to do things right.”

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10 ways to kill your IT culture

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Below are 10 other ways to IT leaders damage their IT culture — and how to avoid it. Measure the impact of software developers by how teams meet release commitments, promote design peer reviews, and demonstrate the impacts of experimentation.

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6 key challenges of complex cloud environments — and how to manage them

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 3, 2022

IaC ensures that the same environment is reliably provisioned every time throughout the software development cycle, including test and production, allowing rapid deployment at scale with less risk.”. “We applied infrastructure-as-code [IaC] to two of the microservices in Volusion’s ecommerce platform,” Lewis-Pinnell says.

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Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In the trenches, development teams are reporting mixed results. Developers at Gehtsoft USA, a custom software development firm, haven’t seen major productivity gains with coding assistants based on large language model (LLM) AIs, says Ivan Gekht, CEO of the company.

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The Value of True CI/CD – And How to Achieve It

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 17, 2022

Considerations for businesses making the shift to CI/CD. When teams are shifted left, testing is conducted in the early stages of the software development life cycle, and involves seamless collaboration between developers, testers, and QA teams , resulting in quality applications with less stability or security issues.

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Outdated business apps can cloud your AI vision

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

CIOs should focus on software modernization projects that matter the most , adds Justice Erolin, CTO of software development firm BairesDev. Some older business apps collect and save a limited amount of data, but others have all kinds of information that can be valuable to the organization, Cloutier adds.

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From IT leader to tech spinoff CEO: How to win a CIO-plus role

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2024

In rather short order, Brock was tapped to lead the launch of Associa’s first client shared-service center, and the success of that initiative propelled him to the perch of CIO, where he inherited corporate IT and the remnants of a forgotten software development group that came via a previous acquisition.

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How to get your CFO to buy into a better model for IT funding

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2024

I needed an outside perspective on whether it was well-suited to the environment at Rest and how to get started.” The purpose of the pilot was to evaluate the effectiveness of empowering the pilot teams’ product owner in making decisions autonomously; to improve team efficiency, transparency, and business stakeholder satisfaction.

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8 hard truths CIOs must learn to accept

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Here are eight hard facts of IT life that CIOs must learn to accept with some tips on how to deal with them. Ask about the software development lifecycle. Look at independent testing for software before its released. We know thats true, because we asked. We have to test a lot more.

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With critical thinking in decline, IT must rethink application usability

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 11, 2025

Fortunately, we still had some old hand retirees in the community who knew how to perform the transactions using manual ledgers that could be entered into the system later. This lesson was never lost on me: Newer employees really didnt understand the fundamental processes of the business they were in.

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Five Key Agile Practices to Support Architects

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MARCH 18, 2013

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Bringing together DevOps and mainframe security

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

No matter the industry, organizations are increasingly looking for ways to optimize mission-critical software development processes. Businesses are under constant pressure to adopt new processes and platforms to achieve the goals set out by business leaders.

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10 generative AI certs and certificate programs to grow your skills

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 30, 2024

The foundational certification covers practical AI skills and knowledge, potential career prospects with AI, the industry’s growing need for AI expertise, practical applications of AI, the business potential of AI, and how to foster AI talent and skills. Cost : $4,000

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AI and Generative AI Take Center Stage at the CSO Conference & Awards 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Research presented during the conference underscored how GenAI complicates vulnerability management even as it streamlines certain aspects of software development. For many, the question is not whether to adopt AI but how to do so in a way that delivers maximum value while managing costs and risks.

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Can developer productivity be measured? Better than you think

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In retail, for example, software has been the fastest-growing job category ; about half of the world’s software engineers work outside the tech industry. Right now, there are roughly 27 million developers on the job, 4.4 Given the rise of generative artificial intelligence , that could well be a massive underestimate.

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How AerCap’s CIO has been a catalyst for a robust M&A strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 1, 2025

AerCap CIO Jrg Koletzki recalls how he had six months notice of the GECAS acquisition not a lot of time to make big decisions about how to integrate complex technologies. Already a Microsoft house, with.NET used for inhouse software development, Azure was the chosen destination.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2013

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Green Software Foundation: On a mission to decarbonize software

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 12, 2024

Standardized measures for ‘green’ One of the biggest pain points with respect to green software is developing a standardized measure of its sustainability. When it comes to software development, computing inefficiencies (and carbon footprints) are more visible — bulky libraries for example — and engineers can improve it more easily.

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 17, 2024

Suddenly, you can create engaging customer-facing videos at the click of a button,” says Oliver Banks, retail consultant and author of Driving Retail Transformation: How to navigate disruption and change. But discussions are underway within VTT about how to protect and commercialize the AI models they develop. “I

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Buying advice for CIOs as low-code/no-code spending rises

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 14, 2023

Faced with a long-running shortage of experienced professional developers, enterprise IT leaders have been exploring fresh ways of unlocking software development talent by training up non-IT staff and deploying tools that enable even business users to build or customize applications to suit their needs.

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Broadcom Software Shows Why Adoption of AI-Driven Solutions is Accelerating in 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 11, 2022

We’re already seeing a range of activities, such as AI-driven services and development tools with AI bots being used in software testing. And as AI and machine learning methods become more widespread, enterprise software developers increasingly rely upon them to create better software code. Evolving AI.

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Scrum master certification: Top 13 certs for agile pros

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 3, 2024

The agile methodology, which facilitates collaboration between stakeholders, teams, and customers during software development, is fast gaining prominence in today’s enterprises. They also oversee Scrum teams, which consist of the product owner, the developers, and the sum master.

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