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Whn you buy anything from an eCommerce site, do you choose to send it to your home or your office?

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When you buy anything from an eCommerce site, do you choose to send it to your home or your office?

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A recent study by CareerBuilder.com shows that a whopping 58 percent of managers said they didn’t receive any management training. As leaders, we must be flexible and adapt to what our teams need from us. Each generation ushers in a new set of challenges, expectations of what's needed from us, the only thing we can count on is change. Leaders can't simply rely upon the same method(s) we have used for many years while the world changes around us. Leaders and managers who ARE offered some type of management training should also be measured, not just that they sat through the training program offered, but that they are actually effective as a manager and that you measure that! How many of us received training when we started our first leadership, management gig? If there was training provided, was there any measurement of what worked or what didn't work?

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How long could your company sustain a completely remote workforce?

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We can't have a completely remote workforce

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Do you engage with freelancers within your department?

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Not yet but we plan to

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Which note taking app do you use at work?

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Workflowy

Notion

Coda

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I don't use a note taking app at work

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What will be the defining leadership characteristic for successful tech leaders in the next 3 years?

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Change & Learning Orientation

Strategic Business & Tech Acumen

Management and Delivery

Communication and People Skills

Leadership

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Do you have remote employees on your team?

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Yes

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Who is ultimately responsible for all IT decisions in your business?

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CIO, CTO, or equivalent

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Board

An IT steering committee

Nobody.

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The Gartner quarterly digital transformation survey cites talent gaps as the biggest challenge to digital transformation in organisations. What skills and experience have you found to be most lacking for your digital transformation efforts?

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Rajesh JethwaCTO at Digiterre in Bankinga year ago

We weren’t lacking in technical skills. We needed IT Business Partners with stronger persuasion skills The business was usually resistant to new technologies as they didn’t want to pay for new apps, training. Especially migrating ...read more

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What tools have you found to be effective for continuous deployment across multiple environments and measuring metrics such as DORA?

Applications & Platforms DevOps

Rajesh JethwaCTO at Digiterre in Bankinga year ago

GitLab platform

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What are the most surprising use cases you’ve found for ChatGPT that go beyond the typical for you or your organisation?

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Rajesh JethwaCTO at Digiterre in Bankinga year ago

ChatGPT has helped many of my users, including myself, write more effective emails.

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Have you used developer experience tools to measure and track changes? If so, which ones would you recommend? If not, are you interested in exploring these or skeptical of their value?

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Rajesh JethwaCTO at Digiterre in Banking16 days ago

I would mention JIRA and its various plugins that can track metrics similar to those in the SPACE framework. Paying for a specialized toolset to track these metrics might not always provide a high return on investment. However, ...read more

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What’s the right way to approach developer productivity improvements? Does the motivation or purpose behind improvement initiatives impact the results?

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Rajesh JethwaCTO at Digiterre in Banking16 days ago

I believe it does. Engagement significantly drives productivity. In my experience, I oversee about 80 to 100 staff members, and we have delivery managers who focus on productivity and deliverables, as well as engagement managers ...read more

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In your experience, how long does it take to measurably improve developer productivity? Are there any low-lift changes organizations can make for a quick win in this area?

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Rajesh JethwaCTO at Digiterre in Banking17 days ago

Improving developer productivity can take varying amounts of time depending on the existing processes, tools, and culture within an organization. However, measurable improvements can often be seen within a few weeks to a ...read more

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For orgs that are just beginning to measure developer productivity, where would you recommend they start? Is there a specific framework that’s easy to implement?

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Rajesh JethwaCTO at Digiterre in Banking16 days ago

Organizations use various methods, like Blue Optima, which measures productivity and can lead to significant staffing decisions. My philosophy is to capture as much detail as possible and use intuition to identify useful ...read more

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Does the software industry have a good understanding of what impacts developer productivity? What are some common misconceptions when it comes to factors that help or hurt productivity on dev teams?

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Rajesh JethwaCTO at Digiterre in Banking16 days ago

Two points I'd like to bring up: First, you can't look at developer productivity evenly across all team members. Senior engineers, for instance, spend more time mentoring and doing architecture work compared to junior engineers, ...read more

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What are some stressors that are unique to leadership positions in the software industry? What advice would you offer to a new leader looking to manage their own stress levels?

Rajesh JethwaCTO at Digiterre in Banking2 months ago

The software industry is a high-pressure environment, and leaders often face the risk of burnout. I experienced this first hand after a decade in banking, creating enterprise software. It was only after attending a talk by ...read more

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If an individual software developer’s productivity is suffering due to stress, what’s the best way to help them get back on track?

Rajesh JethwaCTO at Digiterre in Banking2 months ago

To address this, let's consider two different scenarios. One where the individual is a leader, and one where they are an individual contributor. Leaders, by nature, are often equipped to manage uncertainty and stress. However, ...read more

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What employee perks or benefits matter most to software professionals, in your view? Which are most helpful for managing stress?

Rajesh JethwaCTO at Digiterre in Banking2 months ago

I think the standard perks and benefits are important, but it's more about the community that's being fostered within the organization. Autonomy, mastery, and purpose are things that keep people happy. Knowing that they have ...read more

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