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How To Disrupt the Tech World

Mills Scofield

From how I was raised through my education and my career at Bell Labs and AT&T, I never felt any gender bias. The stories, including one by America’s new CTO and former VP at Google[X] Megan Smith , are the authentic voices of women who have persevered, overcome, created, and innovated their careers and accomplishments.

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How Much do Software Developers Make in 2019?

Strategy Driven

The starting salary of cyber security engineers is also misleading. 30% of surveyed cyber security engineer jobs actually begin at the $83,000 to $108,499 range. Note that engineering roles have slight but significant job differences from your standard developer: engineers don’t just code. So there you have it.

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How to Support Employees’ Learning Goals While Getting Day-to-Day Stuff Done

Harvard Business Review

You’re not cut out for engineering. When I launched my first company in 2008 (CarZen, acquired by Liberty Mutual), one of my first hires was a CTO. I made him the CTO’s protégé, and had the CTO spend time teaching and evaluating him. Or perhaps they want to jump from engineering to sales.

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Which U.S. Companies Are Doing the Most R&D in China and India?

Harvard Business Review

Which companies allocate the highest proportion of that budget to engineering in China and India, specifically? And what drives their success with these global engineering initiatives? Six selected insights are presented here, tempered with our own experience in many years of consulting with global engineering initiatives.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Core Competencies. Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful.

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To Come Up with a Good Idea, Start by Imagining the Worst Idea Possible

Harvard Business Review

Suddenly the victim is the superhero and the designers and engineers are the sidekick, collaborating together to find the best solutions. He had her sit next to the CEO, and enabled her to wander around and ask questions to everyone, including the CEO and the CTO.

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A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management

Harvard Business Review

They want to seize on the promise of AI, machine learning, and people analytics to improve business results and enhance their career prospects. Much has been made of the scarcity of AI engineers, along with the fact that the precious few are quickly snapped up at huge salaries by the usual suspects — Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook.