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9 Reasons Why Developers Think the CIO Is Clueless

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wearing-underwear-outside-pants-doesn't-help dept.

Esther Schindler writes "Finally, a Forrester analyst who understands the attitudes of software developers. Mike Gualtieri identifies nine behaviors managers need to steer clear of or risk being labeled 'clueless' — from control freak tendencies to being a vendor puppet. My favorite, however, is point #8: 'the CIO collaborates to death,' in which Gualtieri opines, 'And, if you never watched Star Trek then you shouldn't even be a CIO.'"

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  1. Re:Ok, first off: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What's a CIO? The article doesn't even say.

    Chief Information Officer. Also, Chief Investment Officer, but that wouldn't make much sense in the context of this article.