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How To Build A Sustainable, Future-Proof Agile Delivery Organization

Forrester IT

After completing my computer science degree, I started working with Olivetti back in the ’80s. That was 20 years after the glorious Ing. Olivetti invented the world’s first personal computer (which very few know about).

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Happy Agile Teams: How to Ask the Right Questions

Social, Agile and Transformation

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.

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3 Ways you can Empower High-Performing Agile Innovation Teams

Social, Agile and Transformation

Picture yourself presenting a minimally viable product to executives, business stakeholders, and other subject matter experts to develop enthusiasm and garner their support for a new customer-facing innovation your team is working on. .

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Agile vs. Waterfall: Which Should A CIO Choose?

The Accidental Successful CIO

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. Say Hello To The New Guy: Agile.

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The 3 Principles that Lead to Better Collaboration Between Design and Product Management Teams

Speaker: Felix Watson Jr., Product Manager at Google, and Terrell Cobb, Designer at Microsoft

As more product teams adopt agile working styles, poor collaboration between Design and Product Management can harm a team’s ability to create consumer and business value. Tips on how to foster a strong relationship between both disciplines. How to combat the challenges that arise between these two teams.

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How to use Spikes and Deliver Agile POCs

Social, Agile and Transformation

In my last post, I discussed shallow commitments, an agile tool team can use to negotiate with product owners when they are asked to commit to more stories in a sprint above their velocity and comfort zone. Teams commit as usual and then define several stories that sit in the shallows.

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The New Normal: How to Develop Mission-Critical Apps and Integrations Faster

Social, Agile and Transformation

During the first six months of COVID, IT leaders and their CIOs came to the stark realization that their “rapid development” practices and paths to deploy minimally viable workflow applications weren’t fast enough. They needed apps developed, tested, and deployed in weeks, not quarters, and coding them from scratch was not a viable option.

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From Predictive to Agile: How to Choose the Right Project Management Methodology

Instead, project managers are embracing dynamic and adaptable frameworks that carefully consider project and product variables to determine the most suitable development approaches and project life cycles. Our profession is undergoing a transformation, moving away from rigid, one-size-fits-all methodologies.

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Building Like Amazon

Speaker: Leo Zhadanovsky, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Amazon's journey to its current modern architecture and processes provides insights for all software development leaders. To get there, Amazon focused on decomposing for agility, making critical cultural and operational changes, and creating tools for software delivery. The "two pizza" team culture.

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The Next-Generation Cloud Data Lake: An Open, No-Copy Data Architecture

Read this whitepaper to learn: How this “no data copy” approach dramatically streamlines data workflows while reducing security and governance overhead. Why agile development concepts, when applied to the data tier, can dramatically increase data engineering agility.

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Strategic Cost Management Approaches to Unlock Growth and Increase Profitability

You'll also find out how the transformative power of synergies and collaborative innovations in product development can help companies cut down costs significantly. What’s Inside: Different cost improvement initiatives The importance of employee empowerment How to achieve agility and adaptability

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How Can We Stop Under Utilizing a Key User Experience Champion?

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

Customer representation has always been a key reason for success in product development. With quality assurance/control already embedded in our development process, what if we expand that role to champion usability and customer delight? Sign up now and learn how to: Reexamine what processes your QA & Dev teams already have.

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Data-Driven Performance Feedback Helps Teams Improve Customer Outcomes

Speaker: Mickey Mantle, Founder and CEO at Wanderful Interactive Storybooks | Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Author, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.

And in the era of agile, which recognizes that software development is a team sport, performance reviews need to use data for programmer growth and to give focus to business results. How to effectively use data in performance reviews to enhance team performance to support customer experience.