The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Which software development methodology is best? As a CIO I suspect that you are well aware that there are a number of different ways that your IT teams can go about developing software (and doing a lot of other things). It all begins with the waterfall approach to developing software.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JUNE 8, 2020

The 14th annual state of agile report is now available, and it's one of the papers I look forward to reviewing every year. It surveys over one thousand software development professionals from a mix of company sizes, development team sizes, geographies, and industries.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Angelic Gibson, CIO at accounts payable automation software and payment solutions provider AvidXchange, agrees that removing friction in the developer workflow can enhance agile innovation. Streamlining to optimize productivity Agile software development is essential to innovate and retain competitiveness.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

A few weeks ago, I suggested three questions that could spark a discussion and debate over your organization’s agile principles. I believe every organization applying agile methodologies across multiple teams needs to define their agile ways of working –.

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Forrester IT

JUNE 12, 2017

This year I'm excited to have my team colleague Amanda joining me in the bi-annual Forrester Agile at Scale Adoption survey. So in addition to successful Agile team practices, alignment with business stakeholders upstream and downstream with testing and operations, we are looking into more Agile at scale issues like budgeting and DevOps.

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Flexagon

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The Software Development Life Cycle, or SDLC, is the process of planning, designing, developing, testing, and deploying high-quality software at the lowest cost possible, preferably in the shortest amount of time. The post 7 Software Development Models You Should Know appeared first on Flexagon.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JULY 25, 2022

Here’s a question I think about a lot when leading digital transformations and guiding agile teams. How should I think about team happiness? Why and how is team happiness important? How should I determine whether and to what extent the team is happy?” - from Digital Trailblazer. When I hear from CIOs, IT Leaders, and other .

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

In any conversation focused on Agile, it takes some time to figure out what each party means when they use the term. In my early research on Agile procurement in government (and Agile procurement in general), almost all of those conversations quickly devolved into what groups were doing Agile software development.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The collaboration needed by Digital Trailblazers, especially ones leading DevOps and agile teams, is rarely achieved by jumping from meeting room to meeting room or expecting people Requiring a strict in-office presence can be hard on many employees with long commutes, family caretakers, or people with physical disabilities.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

I ask this question to agile leaders working with five or more teams: What boundaries and empowerments do you set for your self-organizing teams? . More specifically, are their agile teams free to choose their own tools and technologies? Do you have defined quality,

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Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Many agile and scrum teams want to be left alone so that they can do their work. The last thing they want is leaders looking over their shoulders and overseeing their to-do lists, even when they struggle to complete their sprint commitments.

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CTOvision

JULY 31, 2019

Read Harshit Agarwal explain how you can integrate security throughout software development lifecycle on Information Security Buzz : Integrating security into DevOps to deliver DevSecOps is no easy task: It requires changing the team’s mindset, processes, and technology.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 16, 2023

In Chapter 5 of my book, Digital Trailblazer, I share several of my stories of helping organizations define their agile ways of working. If you’re married to a framework, it’s hard for leaders to develop agile cultures and mindsets.

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Forrester IT

MAY 2, 2017

The most dangerous parallel initiatives are those where, on one side, they are changing their development teams to become more Agile, but a separate initiative in the same enterprise exists where their Operations folks are running a development and operations (DevOps) transformation. Read more Categories: Agile.

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TM Forum

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

If CSPs and vendors are to embrace new working practices such as Agile software development, changes to procurement processes are mandatory. TM Forum recommends a new kind of RFP: the request for partner.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Similarly, it's easier to define what an agile mindset isn't than what having an agile mindset actually means. . It's pretty easy to describe a "bad culture," but articulating what "good culture" looks like is less straightforward. window.dojoRequire(["mojo/signup-forms/Loader"], function(L) { L.start({"baseUrl":"mc.us14.list-manage.com","uuid":".

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JULY 27, 2020

I'm asked this question on selecting agile KPIs all the time from leaders. . Some want to try measuring agile methodologies with the same project management measurements that worked for them in the past, while others are trying to establish some oversight on a process that they don' fully understand.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JUNE 28, 2021

"We're practicing scrum, scaling agile, but not seeing the benefits we were expecting," is a comment I hear all too often. The simple answer is, following scrum ceremonies and focusing on scaling rituals isn't going to achieve agile mindsets, culture, and transformation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

To do so, CIOs must continuously improve their product management, program management, and delivery capabilities to wow customers and deliver competitive advantages, all while steering clear of surefire DX mistakes such as prioritizing too many initiatives and underinvesting in developing digital trailblazers.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Why are some organizations stuck with fr-agile development processes? Hint: It's not because you need to "scale" agile. Many organizations succeed in getting an A-team practicing agile and then look to "scale" their best practices to the rest of the organization. And several frameworks are focusing on this scaling.

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Galido

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Information Technology Blog - - 5 Tips To Reduce Software Development Costs - Information Technology Blog. Custom software development is a costly process. Is it possible to reduce software development costs? You would still need to pay a hefty amount to get top-notch software. Let’s be realistic.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Are you considering getting formally trained or certified in agile methodologies or scrum? Are you looking to become a certified scrum master, or maybe get trained in an agile framework such as SAFe or LeSS, or specialize in agile transformation with classes like StarCIO Agile Planning?

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Information Week

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Agile, DevOps, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Development all help improve software delivery speed. However, as more applications and software development tools include AI, might software developers be trading trust and safety for speed?

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 27, 2020

I've written several posts on the CIO and leadership roles in agile transformation, agile adoption, and agile practices.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 20, 2014

When I saw this hanging in my daughter''s classroom I knew it needed to be shared with Scrum Masters and other agile team members. agile planning agile software development it management organizational change project management software development' A big part of this collaboration occurs in both.

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Forrester IT

JUNE 13, 2017

This year I'm excited to be teaming up with Diego Lo Giudice on the bi-annual Forrester Agile at Scale Adoption survey. So in addition to successful Agile team practices, alignment with business stakeholders upstream and downstream with testing and operations, we are looking into more Agile at scale issues like budgeting and DevOps.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The same is not true, sadly, for many agile project management and development initiatives. Too often, an organization may launch something that looks like an agile program, calls itself an agile program, claims to operate like an agile program, yet really isn’t an agile program in the least.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 1, 2023

In a world where companies are defined by the digital services they can deliver, software agility IS business agility, and in turn results in better business outcomes. The complexity of today’s digital systems has multiple points of friction that need to be addressed if we are to achieve true business agility.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We can call many processes "agile," and teams can claim that they are practicing scrum. Still, there are sizable steps going from following basic agile ceremonies to agile methodologies or cultures. Specifically, teams are not agile if all they are doing is. Let's call a spade a spade.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

In my last post, I provided some guidance on why and how agile data practices can lead to better Business and IT collaboration. Agile aligns priorities, focuses multidisciplinary teams to hit goals, and enables teams to self organize and figure out individual responsibilities.

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Information Week

MAY 9, 2019

Applying legacy software development approaches to IoT projects is inefficient and counterproductive. For a growing number of organizations, Agile is the answer.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 20, 2023

I’ve led many successful application development, cloud migration, and data/analytics programs over the years, and I staffed most of them with a mix of employees, freelancers, and service providers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 28, 2023

Agile project management definition Agile project management is a methodology used primarily in software development that favors flexibility and collaboration, incorporating customer feedback throughout the project life cycle.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

AUGUST 5, 2014

Sometime ago I saw a question posted on a social media site, "Why is Agile hard to adopt?" The basic practices of agile are relatively straightforward, so what''s hard? Driving an agile culture, or getting an organization to "operate with agility", yes, that''s not trivial and it takes time for teams and individuals to "think agile".

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Valerian Tech

JULY 27, 2023

Introduction In today's fast-paced and dynamic business environment, organizations are increasingly turning to agile methodologies to enhance their software development and project management processes. What are Agile Methodologies?

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Social, Agile and Transformation

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Everyone, or at least almost everyone is doing some form of agile practices today. In fact, some leaders drive their digital transformation programs with leading agile to deliver customer facing applications.

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