8 tips for cultivating a winning IT culture

Winning IT organizations aren’t built in a day. Long-term success is generally the result of leaders who make a committed effort to connect directly with their teams, rather than simply issuing memos, edicts, and other top-down commands. Employees want to work for leaders who inspire them, engage them, challenge them, and give them opportunities to…

A CIO’s guide to the developer platform: What it is and why you need it

As today’s digital-centric landscape continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace, software agility, and speed-to-market are critical to long-term success and revenue growth for any business. Modern applications and multi-cloud strategies drive digital transformations that make this success possible, and businesses are under pressure to get better and faster at delivering applications and services to…

7 sins of software development

Software development is a challenging discipline built on millions of parameters, variables, libraries, and more that all must be exactly right. If one character is out of place, the entire stack can fall. And that’s just the technical part. Opinionated programmers, demanding stakeholders, miserly accountants, and meeting-happy managers mix in a political layer that makes…