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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

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Most innovators don’t have a technical background, so it’s hard to evaluate the truth of the situation. And unless they have a tech background, they can’t look under the hood themselves. The answer is to engage a trusted outside source for a Technical Review – a deep-dive assessment that provides a C-suite perspective.

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What Is an IT Budget? IT Budgeting Basics (Template Included)

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Information technology (IT) runs most businesses. This is a common budget cycle, though all budgets should be reviewed throughout the year. But those forecasts are estimates and to ensure that you keep to your IT budget, monitoring and tracking costs is imperative. It’s hard to imagine a company without an IT department.

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The Importance of Operational Project Management for Businesses

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However, because they’re concerned with streamlining department workflows, implementing new technology or processes or even updating the company’s offerings, customers will eventually see the benefits of these improvements. Both rely on effective planning, execution and monitoring, and both require strong leadership and clear communication.

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Exploring the Benefits of an Agile Application Modernization Approach

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Unless you have been constantly refactoring and modernizing this asset over its history, problems begin to emerge: On-premises infrastructure costs are not competitive. Vendors are dropping support of key technologies used by your application. Staffing for legacy technologies is increasingly expensive and difficult to find.

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How to Budget For Your Company’s Technical Debt

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Guest post by Dr. Mik Kersten While “technical debt” is a term that’s frequently used by technologists, the implication and understanding of it tends to be opaque to the business until it’s too late - just look at how Nokia lost the mobile market that it helped create. What’s technical debt?

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IT Asset Management: How to Manage Your IT Assets

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Businesses are always looking for ways to work more efficiently and this is also true in regards to information technology (IT). IT asset management is more than just keeping track of computers but can deliver new functionality and services for platform and infrastructure services. You can set it and forget it.

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Software Project Management: Why It’s Different

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Every project is different, of course, but the differences when managing software development projects are especially so, due to its distinct life-cycle processes. Monitoring and Control This phase happens at the same time as the execution phase. It provides an overview of the whole project, especially when milestones are due.