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What is an IT consultant? Roles, types, salaries, and how to become one

CIO Business Intelligence

This increased complexity means more companies will be relying on IT consultants to help navigate the changes and develop short-term and long-term strategies. An IT consultant is a technology professional who advises and supports business clients in designing, developing, and executing technology projects in service of business goals.

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Product-based IT: 6 key steps for making the switch

CIO Business Intelligence

Past shifts to agile methodologies helped as teams now had a product owne r to prioritize backlogs and adopted agile principles that empowered them to commit to a realistic amount of work. But many enterprises stopped their agile transformations at this layer.

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How to build a successful agile development culture – and why your business needs one

CIO Business Intelligence

To keep pace with the growing complexity of software development, organizations have spent years working to implement agile practices into their developer experience. But many organizations are still struggling to achieve agility and state that progress is still slow and projects are stalled.

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How to Create a Plan of Action If Agile Dev Strategy Fails

Information Week

DeveloperWeek New York keynote examined problems and solutions to get the most out of agile software development.

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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 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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10 ways to kill your IT culture

CIO Business Intelligence

Below are 10 other ways to IT leaders damage their IT culture — and how to avoid it. Measure the impact of software developers by how teams meet release commitments, promote design peer reviews, and demonstrate the impacts of experimentation.

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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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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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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.