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What’s driving the global common data capability at RGA

CIO Business Intelligence

If Copilot finds a misclassified 2018 payroll file on SharePoint, then it can answer questions about peoples pay. Progress metric number one, for example, can be that all teams will have a Scrum master. The first is FOMO gen AI, which happens when the board reads about AI pilots and says, We need to do something!

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5 Secrets to Outcome-Driven Business Speed

CIO Business Intelligence

In early 2018, we realized that our tech projects were taking too long to deliver finished results and were determined to solve this real source of frustration. . Applying the “scrum approach,” we encouraged teams to learn constantly, collaborate well, and drive ongoing improvement. . Our secrets to shifting gear .

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Transforming IT for cloud success

CIO Business Intelligence

Then he broke up those distinct, independent teams and created Scrum teams staffed by product owners , business analysts , solution architects , front-end developers, back-end developers, and testers. And he hired agile coaches to work with his IT team.

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Best business analyst certifications to level up your career

CIO Business Intelligence

Through the program, you can opt to earn your CCBA certification as well as certifications in Agile Scrum Foundation, Digital Transformation for Leaders, Python for Data Science, and R Programming for Data Science. The course promises to make you an expert in Excel, CBAP, Tableau, Scrum, SQL, and CCBA.

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Lumentum CIO Ralph Loura on adopting a challenger mindset

CIO Business Intelligence

Loura joined Lumentum in October of 2018, bringing with him three decades of IT leadership experience. The company is a key player in the telecommunications industry, with annual revenues of $1.7 billion and 5,000 employees around the world.

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Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

CIO Business Intelligence

Volvo Cars’ digital department started to work agilely according to the SAFe Framework in a product-oriented model in 2018. The result, for example, is no more roles such as scrum master and release train engineer, while project managers and program managers have returned. “So But even with great advantages came disadvantages.

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Green travel rewards app Miles raises $12.5 million

The Verge

million led by Scrum Ventures that includes Japan Airlines, TransLink Capital, and a host of others. The pitch Miles originally made in 2018 of constant location tracking in exchange for rewards was eyebrow-raising, to say the least. The team will use the investment to create “Miles 2.0”.

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