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What is a Scrum master? A key role for project success

CIO Business Intelligence

Scrum is a powerful framework for implementing agile processes in software development and other projects. This highly adopted framework utilizes short iterations of work, called sprints, and daily meetings, called scrums, to tackle discrete portions of a project in succession until the project is complete. Others do not.

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On An Agile scaling journey ? Take our survey to find out how you are doing.

Forrester IT

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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SAFe certification: launch your Scaled Agile Framework career

CIO Business Intelligence

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certifications are becoming valuable in larger organizations looking for efficient project delivery, reduced time-to-market, and ways to provide better stakeholder value. Scaled Agile: Scaled Agile is a key provider of agile training, courses, and certification, including SAFe.

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Scrumfall: When Agile becomes Waterfall by another name

CIO Business Intelligence

The Church of Agile is being corrupted from within by institutional forces that have refused or been unable to adapt to the radical humanity embodied in its collaborative, self-organizing, cross-functional teams. A hollowed-out husk of Scrum concealing taskmasters of Waterfall is the Trojan Horse of this betrayal. A sham of true Scrum.

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Agile vs. Waterfall: Which Should A CIO Choose?

The Accidental Successful CIO

There is the classic method that has been used for over 40 years called “waterfall” Then there’s the new upstart in town that everyone seems to be flocking to called “agile” All of these options can place a CIO in a difficult place. Say Hello To The New Guy: Agile. Agile also has benefits.

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Top 15 project management certifications

CIO Business Intelligence

Almost any IT pro can benefit from adding a project management certification to their list of IT credentials, showing you have the know-how to plan, schedule, budget, execute, deliver, and report on IT initiatives. The exam covers topics including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP), and test-driven development (TDD).

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What’s driving the global common data capability at RGA

CIO Business Intelligence

An Agile and product management mindset is also necessary to foster an experimentation approach, and to move away from the desire to control data. This is why Agile and product mindset matter. When transforming, its difficult to put hard value-improvement metrics in moving from Waterfall to Agile. Thats a critical piece.

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