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How employers can inspire software developers

CIO Business Intelligence

Software developers are in demand. They must be developer-friendly because software development is not a traditional 9-to-5 job. Collaboration: Cross-departmental cooperation as a success factor In addition to autonomy, collaboration plays a central role in creating an optimal working environment for developers.

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7 sins of software development

CIO Business Intelligence

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

CIO Business Intelligence

CIOs and other executives identified familiar IT roles that will need to evolve to stay relevant, including traditional software development, network and database management, and application testing. And while AI is already developing code, it serves mostly as a productivity enhancer today, Hafez says. But that will change. “As

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Meta creates ‘Business AI’ group led by ex-Salesforce AI CEO Clara Shih

CIO Business Intelligence

Meta’s licenses and its acceptable use policy contain numerous restrictions on how enterprises may use the models, flying in the face of traditional definitions of open source software and in particular of the new Open Source Initiative definition of open source AI.

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With critical thinking in decline, IT must rethink application usability

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Together these trends should inspire CIOs and their application developers to look at application usability though a different lens. Usability under a different lens The Cambridge Dictionary defines usability as the fact of something being easy to use, but there is also a secondary definition: the degree to which it is easy to use.

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Companies to shift AI goals in 2025 — with setbacks inevitable, Forrester predicts

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AI-driven software development hits snags Gen AI is becoming a pervasive force in all phases of software delivery. Forrester noted that nearly every software tooling vendor incorporated a gen AI copilot capability into their tools in 2024, or announced plans to do so.

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