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How Much do Software Developers Make in 2019?

Strategy Driven

Software developers have always been in high demand, but in 2019 the appetite for developers has just increased as new innovations and applications emerge. So how much can a software developer expect to make in 2019? Not all software development jobs are alike; some are more specialized than others, which is reflected in their pay.

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How To Disrupt the Tech World

Mills Scofield

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. Freshman Engineers designing radial keyboard for the communication impaired (e.g., Get Innovating Women.

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

Strategy Driven

Months of investigation by a cyber consulting firm finally determined the source of the vulnerability to Azotrope’s network: a combination printer/fax machine in their testing and QA area that engineers regularly used to fax lunch orders to a local Chinese restaurant. Adopt software and hardware that automatically detect and apply patches.

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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business Review

The methodology is Continuous Development, which, like agile, began as a software development methodology. Rather than improving software in one large batch, updates are made continuously, piece-by-piece, enabling software code to be delivered to customers as soon as it is completed and tested. Maximize engineering productivity.

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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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Reversing the Curse of Dominant Logic

Harvard Business Review

Increase R&D spending in emerging markets and focus it on local needs: Harman's core competency is engineering, and Paliwal shifted the engineering function's center of gravity from Germany and the United States to key emerging markets. Paliwal not only thwarted the coup, he supported Lawande's leadership and even made him the new CTO.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. The issue arose as a result of changes to IBM’s business model for software. In the past, IBM mostly provided enterprise software to customers who installed it on their own computers.