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Balancing Quality and Budget in a Time of Cuts

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Practical Strategies for Release and Delivery Managers These days in our IT industry, budget tightening has shifted from a planning concern to an operational reality across many IT organizations. Release and Delivery Managers are increasingly expected to deliver critical software under financial constraints, without compromising stability, security, or user trust. In this environment, balancing quality […]

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Want to Cut Cloud Costs Without Cutting Performance (2026 Guide)

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Every IT executive, technical program manager, or project leader has faced this familiar challenge: “Our cloud costs are skyrocketing; how can we maintain performance without overspending?” With cloud adoption accelerating and AI workloads growing, this question is more urgent than ever. Balancing performance and budgets isn’t about penny-pinching; rather it’s about aligning cloud spending with

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AI Mistake Everyone Is Making – And It’s Costing Them Their Competitiveness

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Some organizations are under pressure to cut headcount, assuming AI can fully replace certain tasks. In my view, that’s often a shortsighted perspective. After reviewing multiple AI deployments in real-world scenarios, a recurring theme emerged; it’s not AI technology that’s failing, but how it’s being used. I want to be very clear, that I’m not

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Beyond the Hype: Why AI Still Needs Human Hands and Minds

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As 2026 begins, I keep finding myself in conversations that start with the same question: “Is Artificial Intelligence (AI) going to eliminate jobs?” It’s a fair concern and yet, an incomplete one. Human involvement remains essential in managing and training AI systems through what is commonly known as human-in-the-loop (HITL). AI brings speed and scale,

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My Weekly Tech Blip

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AI momentum continues to outpace the systems designed to govern it. This week, OpenAI released an experimental model aimed at better understanding AI behavior, a quiet but important shift from capability building to behavior scrutiny. Meanwhile, the U.S. government launched a new “Tech Force” and introduced an AI Talent Act, signaling urgency to compete for

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Big Idea for a Holiday Gift That Actually Matters!

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🎄 This Christmas, give the gift of clarity, focus, and action! 🎄 Introducing CTRL-ALT-PLANNING & CTRL-ALT-EXECUTE – Your ultimate IT tech duo for anyone who wants to plan smart, act fast, and achieve more in 2026. CTRL-ALT-PLANNING helps you organize your ideas, prioritize what matters, and create a strategy that actually works. CTRL-ALT-EXECUTE shows you

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Consequences if IT Technical Debt Is Ignored

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Don’t Ignore “Technical Debt”  If you are an IT executive, TPM, or PM, you’ve likely lived through this scenario: a project is racing toward a hard deadline, pressure from stakeholders is building, budgets are tight, and your engineering team is forced to focus only on bare-minimum deliverables. Deep down, you already know this trade-off, postponing

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My Weekly Tech Blip – Orbiting Data Centers?

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Orbiting data centers aren’t just a myth anymore. And since this idea is creeping into real engineering discussions, I took a closer look and wanted to pass along what I found. The fact is that ‘Orbiting data centers’ are an emerging concept being explored by major tech companies such as Google and SpaceX to address

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When a Backlog Becomes More Than a To-Do List

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Practical Field Notes Very early in my career, I had my share of confusion around backlogs. My thought process was, are they simply long to-do lists, or something deeper? The answer, I learned, defines how effectively project teams deliver. Backlogs often cause confusion when their purpose, types, and management aren’t clearly understood. In Agile and

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My Weekly Tech Blip – Azure DevOps Hosted Image Retirement Alert (Effective Today)

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Attention DevOps teams and Mac/iOS developers: Microsoft retired two major hosted images today, December 4, 2025. macOS-13 hosted image → retired today, December 4, 2025 • Windows-2019 hosted image → retiring December 31, 2025 (after a six-month extension) What this means: Pipelines still running on macOS-13 will start failing immediately. Pipelines using Windows-2019 will continue

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