Gartner says businesses are challenged to bring value and innovation wherever their customers are. For CIOs and infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders the focus is on enhancing customer experiences and developing staff and skills while building and operating resilient, sustainable, secure, and scalable platforms and systems.

With CIOs under pressure to innovate while keeping the lights on, how should I&O leaders channel the software development team to support innovation goals while meeting commitments around sustainability, lowering costs and staying secure/compliant?

Joining us today on PodChats for FutureCIO is Kai Yuan Neo (Kai), CEO, Rocket Academy.

1.       What does software development look like in 2023?

2.       Name 3 trends that will have the most significant long-term impact on software development.

3.       [Depending on #2] low-code/no-code, embedded or AI-assisted DevOps, monoliths move to containers 

a.       How is Generated-AI altering in-house software development?

                                                   i.      What is driving this trend? (remote work, cloud/multi-cloud/hybrid, security, governance)

b.       Do you see the lack of in-house skills/expertise as impairing the ability of organisations to innovate?

c.       What would the next evolution of software development, and what derail the above trend?

4.       Name three effective strategies for evaluating software engineering candidates?