Change is necessary for growth in software engineering organizations, but adapting to change requires time, energy and resources that can detract from a focus on delivering value. While a certain degree of change is essential, excessive change can lead to change fatigue among developers. Change fatigue is a negative response to change and can include … continue reading
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing how software engineering teams design, build and test applications. AI can automate much of today’s mundane software development tasks. It can also help software engineers produce code more quickly. AI coding assistants can reduce the amount of time and effort software engineers spend on programming tasks, such as typing boilerplate … continue reading
Gartner is predicting that in 2024, companies will be exploring methods that will help ensure their investments are protected for years to come. Every year the company puts together a list of 10 trends it believes will take hold in the tech industry in the following year. This year, five of those trends fall into … continue reading
Innovation is essential for software engineering leaders to circumvent competition and create an attractive technology landscape for users and developers. Innovation keeps processes, tools and outcomes fresh and productive. However, software engineering teams often experience burnout due to the demand for innovation and have little energy to innovate their own processes and practices. Software engineering … continue reading
Recent Gartner research has revealed that by 2025, the 80% of CTOs who don’t have the correct tools in place to support business and customer needs or adapt to change will negatively impact their business response to disruption. The research also showed that executive leaders are currently sharing unrealized dependencies that can help to meet … continue reading
At the end of 2022, Gartner made the prediction that in 2023, low-code spending would increase by 20%. This may seem like a bold claim, considering that lately it seems that all organizations want to do is cut, cut, cut. But when you think about the promise of low-code, and being able to do more … continue reading
Software engineering leaders need to foster collaboration with site reliability engineers (SRE) in order to scale unplanned work and improve customer experience. Software engineering teams tend to focus on releasing new product features quickly, which causes them to not always prioritize the reliability of new features. Gartner predicts that by 2027, 75% of enterprises will … continue reading
Marketing leaders will continue facing uncertain and volatile conditions in 2023, while still being under pressure to drive growth. These include things like changes to third-party tracking in browsers, the economy, marketing budget cuts, and more. The tech industry in particular has been impacted by these volatile conditions in the market and in the workforce. … continue reading
When it comes to succeeding with digital initiatives and building high-performing software teams, it is important to deliver top-notch developer experience. A superior developer experience helps attract and retain talented developers. Gartner’s 2021 Software Engineering Leader Survey shows that hiring, developing, and retaining talent ranks in the top three challenges for 38% of software engineering … continue reading
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has been a useful tool for many organizations. Despite the initial fear that it would grow to take over the jobs of developers, many have come to see that RPA and automation only function well when they work in tandem with developers. According to Yishai Beeri, growth technologies lead at LinearB, … continue reading
When developers lie awake at night, they’re likely not thinking that they didn’t turn around enough tickets that day, or write a certain number of lines of code. Their fear is that they’ve broken something, and that they’ll be in trouble. In the meantime, C-level managers are primarily concerned with innovation, creating new products and … continue reading
When software engineering leaders need new skills, they often look to hire people who already have those skills. However, when it comes to modern cloud architectures and languages, those people are hard to find. Recent Gartner research has found that there are a high number of open positions for people with advanced development skills, but … continue reading