{"id":9483,"date":"2021-07-30T10:40:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T14:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=9483"},"modified":"2021-08-03T08:48:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T12:48:09","slug":"business-leaders-lack-of-software-knowledge-could-be-costly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/business-leaders-lack-of-software-knowledge-could-be-costly\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Leaders\u2019 Lack Of Software Knowledge Could Be Costly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Businesses lose up to $126 million annually due to the inability of business leaders to grasp the essential aspects of developer productivity, a recent survey by CircleCI reveals.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>According to the report, 40% of business leaders use incorrect parameters such as lines of code and story points to measure their teams performance, as neither method can accurately prove the ROI of engineering results.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The survey also found that only a third of the companies surveyed are run by executives with an IT background, which leads to a lack of insight into software operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because business leaders are still far behind when it comes to accessing the productivity or performance of their software teams, and they face numerous challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This includes, among other things, simply answering questions about the number of developers needed for hire.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/business-leaders-cluelessness-about-software-development-is-costing-them-a-bundle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in ZDNet,<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses lose up to $126 million annually due to the inability of business leaders to grasp the essential aspects of developer productivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9483"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9530,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9483\/revisions\/9530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}