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A Day in the Life of a Planview Software Development Engineer Test Manager

Planview

For this month’s blog spotlight , we are going to travel to Bangalore and follow Geetika to spend a day in the life of a Software Development Engineer Test manager. Here is what Geetika had to say: Explain your role as a Software Development Engineer Test Manager and a few of your responsibilities.

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The Universality of Leadership: Challenging Industry-Specific Biases

Tullio Siragusa

The Universality of Leadership: Challenging Industry-Specific Biases In the modern business landscape, we often hear the argument that leaders should be hired from within the same industry to be effective. Here, we make a case for the top five universal leadership skills, which are, arguably, more critical than industry-specific experience.

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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower Innovation

We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. The explanation from software leadership is often unsatisfying or unclear. But is that the right strategy for your business? But as you’ve grown, it’s become cumbersome and constraining.

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Developing an agile innovation strategy

Idea Drop

Innovation is no longer a choice, it is a necessity to stay ahead of the competition, and an agile strategy can help you achieve it. This allows management to focus more on strategy and less on micromanaging. It’s critical that leadership gives you the flexibility and breadth of opportunity to try new and different things.

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Goodhart’s Law: When a target becomes its own enemy

Idea to Value

Often, this focus on just meeting the specific targets can take focus and effort away from meeting the more important overall targets aligned with achieving the company’s strategy. What is the strategy? So they offered to pay for dead snakes brought to them. Is it clearly communicated and understood.

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Lessons from Silicon Valley on Innovation and Engagement

IdeaScale

Innovation is a concept often tossed around in business strategy as an instrument of change. The recent leaps forward in software development, computing and consumer electronics have led industry titans to classify the current time period as one of the most innovative on record. First, let’s take a look at the current landscape.

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When Building a Culture For Innovation, Form Follows Function

Cris Beswick

Decades later, the form-follows-function paradigm became deeply embedded across industrial design, software development, and systems engineering disciplines. This transformative realignment begins with reimagining the company’s core reason for being – its overarching strategy.

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