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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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Meet the startups that just graduated from Creative Destruction Lab’s accelerator in Seattle

GeekWire

(CDL Photo) Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), a nonprofit that runs 13 startup accelerators across the world, just graduated another swath of early stage companies from its Seattle program. It also enforces objective-based milestones and checkpoints; if a company is not meeting certain standards, they are booted out.

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How to Conduct an Agile Story Sizing Meeting

Social, Agile and Transformation

How to Conduct an Agile Story Sizing Meeting. As I discussed in my last post ( Three Agile Insights working with Offshore Teams ), I spent the last several days visiting offshore development teams and had the occasion of observing one team performing an Agile Sizing meeting. Conducting a Sizing Meeting. Isaac Sacolick.

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Rekindling the thrill of programming

CIO Business Intelligence

One of the most prominent examples of recent human achievement is what we call a programming language. Reviewing the Olympic mental feats that punctuate the history of its creation will help you rediscover the near-fantastical nature of programming. . A key moment in the story of programming is Alan Turing’s universal machine.

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6 tips for successfully leading software developers

CIO Business Intelligence

The right way to engage developers in strategic dialog is in a balance. Asking developers about how the meeting load is, and how well they feel engaged in the larger goals is a good way to tune the balance. Developers do it to themselves and also are subject to external pressures.

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Does Your Business Need Custom Software Development?

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Does Your Business Need Custom Software Development? Each business owner thinks about custom software development. Whichever point you are at, you are probably wondering whether customs software development is the right way to invest your money. Information Technology Blog.

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SAP trials meeting-free Fridays

CIO Business Intelligence

SAP, though, is taking that one step further by inviting employees to avoid scheduling meetings on Fridays and to use the time instead to clear their to-do lists. Chief Digital and Information Officer Florian Roth was among the first to try out the new program, introducing it to the company’s IT organization last year, Younosi told CIO.com.

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