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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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Learning The Keys To Exceptional Execution

Tanveer Naseer

All Ben Milne, co-founder and CEO of Dwolla had was a burning desire to solve an existing problem. He offered to update my uninspiring site at zero cost and designed a website that has consistently maintained a page one search engine ranking in many key phrases. You don’t need $50,000 in the bank. The student became the teacher.

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How Technical Debt Opens the Door to Cyber Attacks—and Steps to Protect Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

CEOs and CFOs managing technology may not recognize tech debt building up in their SMBs—because it is not revealed in monthly variance reports or other accounting controls. Or the CEO who shares her password with her husband and children so they can access her mail and messaging accounts. has grown stealthier and more sinister.

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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. This new reality, in which developing talent is a key business imperative, requires real buy-in from top brass in your company, all the way up to the CEO. When I launched my first company in 2008 (CarZen, acquired by Liberty Mutual), one of my first hires was a CTO.

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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business Review

GE famously implemented Lean methodologies throughout all of their divisions, helping reduce cycle time and better aligning their work with the customers’ needs, leading to then-CEO Jeff Immelt’s declaration that GE had transformed from a “classic conglomerate… to a 125-year-old startup.”

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Authentic and trusting relationships within an organization can lead to more support if additional funding is needed for a product or to sway an engineer to include a quick bug fix in the next sprint. Core Competencies.

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The C-Suite Needs a Chief Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

The best CEOs are excellent at growing and running a company within a known business model. Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. ” You believe anything is possible.