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Six More Habits of Indispensable IT Pros Continuing from my previous list, here are six more effective habits of indispensable IT pros. These effective habits center on embracing big data, taking thankless jobs, playing nice with others, and making yourself valuable to internal and external groups. |
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How Lean Is Your Development Platform? Businesses are now realizing the value of a lean approach to development, thereby working to eliminate any and all wasteful activity. Software development teams must ensure that their development platform abides by lean guiding principles, which enable their development process. |
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Six Habits of Indispensable IT Pros Joe Townsend presents a list of six habits of indispensable IT pros. This list is a common-sense approach to how you can make yourself valuable to your organization. Be prepared to be a forward thinker and embrace new technologies. |
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What Is a Best Practice? “Best practice” is a term that you hear thrown around frequently in IT. Inevitably, someone finds a way to do something and then labels it a best practice. The key thing to remember when it comes to best practices is that what cures others may kill you. |
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Can Your Organization Use an Outsourcing Strategy that Works? Nothing strikes fear in the heart of IT folks like the word “outsourcing," and now it appears that a company has created robots that can handle simple business and IT functions. Joe Townsend explores whether or not an outsourcing strategy can work with your organization. |
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Should SCM Professionals Be Scripting Experts? Joe Farah explains to what degree should SCM professionals be scripting experts. While high-level scripting for SCM professionals is great, you might need to rethink your technology so your CM team can do real work. |