CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 23, 2024

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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Agile SCRUM Devops Project Management 98

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Tanzu Vanguards, which includes leaders, engineers, and developers from DATEV, Dell, GAIG, and TeraSky, provided their perspectives on analyst predictions and industry data that point to larger trends impacting cloud computing, application development, and technology decisions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 7, 2023

Agile for hybrid teams optimizing low-code experiences The agile manifesto is now 22 years old and was written when IT departments struggled with waterfall project plans that often failed to complete, let alone deliver business outcomes. Apply agile when developing low-code and no-code experiences.

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SCRUM Agile Devops Software Development 145

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2023

At the same time, developers are scarce, and the demand for new software is high. This has spurred interest around understanding and measuring developer productivity, says Keith Mann, senior director, analyst, at Gartner. Organizations need to get the most out of the limited number of developers they’ve got,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As today’s digital-centric landscape continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace, software agility, and speed-to-market are critical to long-term success and revenue growth for any business. And this goes well beyond developing and deploying applications – managing those applications after they’ve been deployed is critical.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Driven by the development community’s desire for more capabilities and controls when deploying applications, DevOps gained momentum in 2011 in the enterprise with a positive outlook from Gartner and in 2015 when the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) incorporated DevOps.

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Devops Enterprise Enterprise Agile 143

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Instead of succumbing to the pressure, CIOs should consider collaborative approaches: Empower and inspire agile teams by avoiding rigid delivery roadmaps, highlighting what performance improvement areas are worth focusing on, and giving teams time to reset after major releases.

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Agile Survey Change Management Education 140

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

CIOs and business executives must collaborate to develop and communicate a unified vision aligning technology investments with the organization’s broader goals. Too often, companies adopt innovative technologies based on market hype without fully understanding how they contribute to their business.

Strategy 122

Strategy Agile Financial Artificial Intelligence 122

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

As the study’s authors explain, these results underline a clear trend toward more personalized services, data-driven decision-making, and agile processes. Interestingly, developing existing talent is the third most cited focus for digital transformation — a sign that leaders recognize the importance of preparing employees to work with gen AI.

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Banking Budget Study Survey 141

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Scrum is a powerful framework for implementing agile processes in software development and other projects. The Scrum master is the leader of a Scrum team and is responsible for championing a project, providing guidance to the team and product owner, and ensuring all agile practices are followed by team members. Others do not.

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SCRUM Project Management Agile Software Development 126

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 11, 2023

The financial services sector is undergoing rapid change as fintechs develop convenient, consumer-focused services that were once the province of traditional banks. Many established financial institutions have very good core business capabilities, but their technology platforms tend to be archaic and rigid.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2024

For instance, if you oversee security teams, you may want to consider the security-focused certifications, whereas if you manage an agile team, then project management and agile-focused certifications may be a better fit. This certification demonstrates your ability to work on or lead an agile team.

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Project Management Agile SCRUM Security 131

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Vendors are adding gen AI across the board to enterprise software products, and AI developers havent been idle this year either. And were likely to see an increase of tech providers keeping large enterprises top of mind when developing the on-device technologies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

DevOps delivers speed and agility to the development process. By cross-training operations and engineering, development teams can move faster through better collaboration, making continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) a reality for organizations. Now, because of DevOps, it’s develop, test, develop, test.

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Change Management Devops Agile Development 133

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 2, 2024

Underpinning these initiatives is a slew of technology capabilities and strategies aimed at accelerating delivery cycles, such as establishing product management disciplines, building cloud architectures, developing devops capabilities, and fostering agile cultures.

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Change Management SCRUM Devops Agile 140

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 15, 2024

If competitors are using advanced data analytics to gain deeper customer insights, IT would prioritize developing similar or better capabilities. By staying ahead of market trends, the organization remains agile, adaptable, and ready to outperform rivals. Contact us today to learn more.

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Strategy Fractional CTO Analysis Banking 133

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 10, 2024

A key development in this effort is the Accreditation Management System (AMS), which enables staff, assessors, and clients to access and manage documents and tasks securely from anywhere. Cloud computing gives us the agility to innovate, scale, and customize services,” Dr. Almoqhim states.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Go all-in with modern work processes — particularly agile Another way to ensure IT can more quickly deliver transformative features, functions, and services is to go all-in with modern approaches to work; more specifically, CIOs say that means fully embracing the agile development methodology.

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Agile Architecture Training Business Transformation 145

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

When it comes to certifications, you can typically choose to get certified in skills that you already have, or you can use certification as an opportunity to grow your skill set and develop skills you’d like to put to use in your career.

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SCRUM Agile Engineering Web Services 137

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A key way to facilitate alignment is to become agile enough to stay ahead of the curve, and be adaptive to change, Bragg advises. The CIO should also speak early when sensing a possible business course deviation. “A To build strong ties, IT leaders must also listen to and learn from their business counterparts.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 5, 2024

“We’ve integrated tech into our business according to an exciting model, and this requires a lot of work, focus, and strength,” she adds. Right now we’re on a very invigorating development curve.” After working in a traditional IT organization until 2019, H&M switched to working agile.

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Fashion Agile Development Retail 114

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 24, 2024

These 10 strategies cover every critical aspect, from data integrity and development speed, to team expertise and executive buy-in. Leverage reusable code libraries and frameworks to speed up your development process. Establish clear objectives, define success metrics, and outline the development process from day one.

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Agile Data Development Tools 124

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Here, in an extract from his book, AI for Business: A practical guide for business leaders to extract value from Artificial Intelligence , Peter Verster, founder of Northell Partners, a UK data and AI solutions consultancy, explains four of them. One reason implementing agile makes such a difference is the ability to fail fast.

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Agile Artificial Intelligence Energy Project Management 126

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This reinvention goes beyond the adoption of cloud, agile development principles, and cutting-edge technologies. Those figures make a compelling case for developing a customer-centric mindset within IT. The success of that platform eventually transformed the business into a digitally-led company.

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Fractional CTO Agile Cloud Strategy 137

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 25, 2024

Rethink Agile Within many organizations, we’re hearing reports of people feeling agile hasn’t delivered the anticipated value, along with a commensurate backlash against the approach. In others, teams are seeking new alternatives, potentially looking for ways to go “beyond agile.”

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Trends Industry Agile Engineering 132

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 20, 2024

Pre-pandemic, high-performance teams were co-located, multidisciplinary, self-organizing, agile, and data-driven. High performance back then generally focused on delivery — a contrast to previous generations of IT where business and IT alignment was an issue, and teams struggled to deliver with waterfall project management practices.

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How To Agile Change Management Training 141

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 19, 2024

BSH’s previous infrastructure and operations teams, which supported the European appliance manufacturer’s application development groups, simply acted as suppliers of infrastructure services for the software development organizations. We see this as a strategic priority to improve developer experience and productivity,” he says.

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Engineering Software Development Development Software 138

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

During my career I have developed a few mottos. At a time when technology innovation cycles are getting shorter, we will struggle to keep pace if we have to navigate around legacy systems that act as barriers to speed and agility. He is considered a thought leader in the use of Agile principles to improve IT delivery.

Operating Systems 110

Operating Systems Agile System Hardware 110

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Without close integration between business and technology, organizations risk misalignment with strategic objectives and technological execution. Decisions made in isolation lead to inefficiencies, slower responses to market changes, and a lack of agility that stifles innovation. Invest in leadership development.

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Fractional CTO Enterprise Enterprise Architecture 119

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 9, 2024

Automation is also at the heart of what enables business leaders to make more informed decisions and increase overall agility within their organization. Despite the talk about how automation can make employees and businesses more productive, managing it across the entire DevOps chain is a complex task.

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Devops Quality Assurance Agile Tools 111

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

What companies need to do in order to cope with future challenges is adapt quickly: slim down and become more agile, be more innovative, become more cost-effective, yet be secure in IT terms. All kinds of things can be automated The question is, how should businesses go about modernising their own applications effectively?

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Industry IBM Applications Banking 122

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Sameer Purao, who joined Celanese as CIO and CDO in 2021, is keeping the team and company focused by making change management a core competency of his team, and ensuring a focus on value, agility, and purpose. What is the business transformation underway at Celanese? I had to learn a lot in a short amount of time.

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Agile Change Management SAP Apparel 118

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Ill also continue strengthening partnerships across our executive team to understand their insights and perspectives from financials, strategy, and employee and customer enablement to talent acquisition, skills development and more. We always have a lot of training and development, but AI is something we are now layering across all training.

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Strategy Engineering Financial Change Management 134

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Afterwards we spent some more time focused specifically on Soni’s perspectives around the power of what she calls “the 4 EAs @scale, @pace”: enterprise agility, enterprise AI, extreme automation, and employee (skill) advancement. What role does the power of enterprise agility play in your efforts to achieve these imperatives?

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Agile Insurance Enterprise Enterprise 128

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This may require hiring outside experts and/or investing in training and development for existing staff. Digital transformation is about envisioning new ways of doing business, reimagining business processes, transforming business/systems architecture, and changing an organization’s culture.

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Agile Training Budget Resources 143

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2023

Here’s how I spot derailments: Ask initiative leaders to share access to their roadmaps, agile backlogs, collaboration tools, stakeholder communications, and internal documentation. But are product managers developing market- and customer-driven roadmaps and prioritized backlogs?

Strategy 141

Strategy Agile Infosys Programming 141

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 1, 2024

“Organizations that take a holistic, longer-term, strategic approach to workforce planning and talent development can better prepare their workforce to stay current with their skills and competencies to meet changing business needs,” says Lily Mok, a Gartner VP analyst. to help employees own their skills and career development journey.

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