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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business Review

When new CTO Prakash Khot arrived from Salesforce, he shifted the company towards continuous delivery, testing changes more frequently and on smaller audiences. hours for an engineer’s code to be deployed in production and the company hoped to reduce that figure to two hours in 2018. By August 2017, it took an average of 3.5

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CMOs and CIOs Need to Get Along to Make Big Data Work

Harvard Business Review

That impasse has led to expectations of the CMO’s IT budget outstripping the CIO’s by 2018, according to Gartner, a dangerous trend that can lead to duplicate spending and effort. The CMO and CIO (and potentially the CTO) must bring complete transparency to the process. Bring complete transparency.

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