Introducing Maintenance for Agile Applications
Information Week
MAY 3, 2024
At what point does continuous, iterative development for Agile applications turn into a maintenance exercise?
Rethinking enterprise architects’ roles for agile transformation
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
In the State of Enterprise Architecture 2023 , only 26% of respondents fully agreed that their enterprise architecture practice delivered strategic benefits, including improved agility, innovation opportunities, improved customer experiences, and faster time to market.
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Scrum master certification: Top 13 certs for agile pros
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 3, 2024
The agile methodology, which facilitates collaboration between stakeholders, teams, and customers during software development, is fast gaining prominence in today’s enterprises. The Scrum master leads this process, providing guidance to the team and product owner and ensuring agile practices are followed by team members.
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10 top priorities for CIOs in 2025
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 13, 2025
Technology investments, such as in generative AI, are a priority in addressing the need to meet rising expectations while also driving operational agility and resilience. Agility and innovation are no longer competitive advantages theyre necessities, Barnett states.
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To Excel At Customer Obsession, You Need An Adaptive Operating Model
Forrester IT
MAY 16, 2019
Rather than undertake a full organizational design exercise, firms are adopting tactical change, creating agile delivery […]. Many firms have used Forrester’s principles of customer obsession to guide their business and IT transformation journey, striving to be customer-led, insights-driven, fast, and connected.
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5 Ways to Improve Agile Team Velocity
Social, Agile and Transformation
JULY 24, 2013
Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 5 Ways to Improve Agile Team Velocity. Isaac Sacolick.
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Developing great products with StarCIO Agile Planning
Social, Agile and Transformation
AUGUST 12, 2019
Writing user stories was once a relatively straightforward exercise. The goal was, and still is, to establish a shared understanding of the requirements with the agile development team without overly specifying how the story should be implemented. More mature agile.
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IT infrastructure complexity hindering cyber resilience
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Eliminating traditional security dependencies such as firewalls and VPNs not only reduces the organizations attack surface, but also streamlines operations, cuts infrastructure costs, and improves IT agility. Exercises identify shortcomings that can be addressed ahead of a real incident.
Three Agile Insights Working With Offshore Teams
Social, Agile and Transformation
FEBRUARY 6, 2013
Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Three Agile Insights Working With Offshore Teams.
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Agile Estimation and Architecture Leads to Collaboration and.
Social, Agile and Transformation
MARCH 25, 2013
Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Social, Agile, Transformation Pages. agile planning. (17).
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Why adaptability is the new digital transformation
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Disruption has moved from the exception to the norm With disruption now a constant rather than one-off event, organizations must be able to quickly react to change with agility across all aspects of their operating models. Here’s why. It’s no longer sufficient to pursue after-the-fact transformations.
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Transforming IT for digital success
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 23, 2023
This reinvention goes beyond the adoption of cloud, agile development principles, and cutting-edge technologies. Kanungo says a whole army approach doesn’t enable the agility required in the modern digital age where markets rapidly change. The success of that platform eventually transformed the business into a digitally-led company.
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How AI is empowering tech leaders — and transforming procurement
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
For many organizations, the procurement process eats up six to nine months an expensive exercise in a time of digital transformation, when both tech agility and organizational leadership define business success. It fosters agility, empowers teams to focus on meaningful work, and ensures that organizations remain competitive over time.
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People-centric planning: Fund people, not work
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 16, 2024
How legacy approaches create waste and stifle agility It isn’t just that traditional funding approaches aren’t aligned with current realities; it’s that they create waste and stifle agility—and actively work against many of the organization’s most critical goals. Teams work toward common, business-level objectives.
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Motivated Team Of Mission Focused Technologists From Software AG Wins Rapid Integration Challenge of Plugfest
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 25, 2014
A robust set of agile, open standard, SOA and cloud based tools was available. Exercising this this type of innovation and inter-community cooperation is a great step in the right direction! Once the seeds of doubt are injected, it is hard to re-attain trust in the information!
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What high-performance IT teams look like today — and how to build one
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 20, 2024
Pre-pandemic, high-performance teams were co-located, multidisciplinary, self-organizing, agile, and data-driven. As many organizations were accelerating digital transformation initiatives, the higher-performing teams excelled at change management and agile planning practices.
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Product-based IT: A blueprint for success
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Digging through research examining the impact of standard conventions like siloed teams and staged gate processes, Arooni began percolating ideas for how to shift IT organizations away from the traditional project-oriented culture to something more agile, with greater business accountability and more responsiveness to changing customer needs. “We
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Business Responsibilities working with Agile Teams Part 1 - Social.
Social, Agile and Transformation
APRIL 10, 2009
Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Business Responsibilities working with Agile Teams Part 1.
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Ten Reasons Software Developers Need the Cloud - Social, Agile.
Social, Agile and Transformation
OCTOBER 6, 2009
Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Social, Agile, Transformation Pages. agile planning. (17).
Secrets of future-ready tech leaders
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 21, 2022
In Hakanson’s view, the best technology leaders are at the front lines of building agile organizations that adapt quickly in conjunction with the business. Panera’s Meister adds that resilience is an increasingly critical aspect of agility. It’s a chance learn, improve, and show how agile and innovative the team really is.
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If you’re still focusing on capacity planning, maybe you’re doing VSM wrong
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 29, 2023
As organizations move into integrated value streams and agile delivery, estimation and capacity should take a step back to drive a focus on value delivery. Capacity planning has always been at the core of the project prioritization and negotiation process between business and delivery. But who is the owner of this prioritization?
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How resilient CIOs future-proof to mitigate risks
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 18, 2024
This involves establishing guardrails around AI, performing disaster training exercises, mitigating third-party threats, and more. Taking a platform-based approach reduces complexity, enabling CIOs to maintain a strong security posture without sacrificing speed or agility, she says.
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How to Improve Your Organization’s Cyber Resiliency
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Now, leading organizations are going further, embracing a cyberresilience paradigm designed to bring agility to incident response while ensuring sustainable business operations, whatever the event or impact. Pandemic-era ransomware attacks have highlighted the need for robust cybersecurity safeguards. A Cyberresilience Road Map.
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25 enterprise tech predictions and goals for 2025, from APAC CIOs
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
To draw parallels a person who prioritises their health through sufficient sleep, a balanced diet, and regular exercise may still fall ill. Hyper-automation will extend automation across complex workflows, integrating systems and processes to optimise entire business functions and drive agility.
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Agentic AI design: An architectural case study
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
A company that adopts agentic AI will gain competitive advantages in innovation, efficiency and responsiveness and may become more agile in operations. Twelve different scenarios need to be tested against, and the data files need to contain or be able to contain data that will exercise those 12 tests.
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An archetype-based approach to driving your global workforce transformation
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 11, 2024
Acknowledging these challenges and complexities, how can one pressure-test their spreadsheet exercise against the realities of execution? Are they working in agile? Are they developing novel products and services? Configuring a package solution? What key technologies are they using? What skills will enable operations in the new model?
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ST Engineering showcases applications of new technologies to stay ahead of disruption
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 5, 2023
This means adapting to the needs of consumers, businesses, and governments—as well as changing market conditions—by becoming more efficient, agile, and smart. This is a challenge AGIL ® Vision seeks to solve.
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7 ways to elevate your CIO role
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 11, 2022
The role of the CIO, through applied digital technologies, is to build resiliency, organizational agility, and become the engine to scale new technologies and innovations into a sustainable competitive advantage,” Scheefer says. Aim for agility.
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What transformational leaders too often overlook
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 28, 2022
There is general consensus that in the short term I&O professionals need to impose order on chaos with the longer-term objective of structuring a catalogue of services featuring pre-vetted architectures establishing technology choice guardrails that guide and provide agility to the business.
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Transforming IT for cloud success
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 6, 2023
“Now all that [work] happens within an agile circle with iterative delivery, so the linear process has all been crushed together.” Here’s how he did it: Holden hired cloud architects , who brought cloud integration experience and training to the agile methodology Holden embraced. And he hired agile coaches to work with his IT team.
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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 10, 2024
In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget. Whether agile should include FinOps or not is a matter of debate,” he says. The solution lies in making those teams understand they’re getting involved in innovation, not just a cost-cutting exercise.
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Transformation transformed: How Generative AI has completely changed the way businesses think about innovation
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 8, 2024
Only once those upgrades were completed – an exercise that typically took three to five years and hundreds of millions of dollars – could individual business units start re-working their systems and processes based on the new architecture. To learn more, visit us here.
Data and gen AI: Keys to Air Europa’s digital strategy
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 23, 2024
It gives business areas the agility and autonomy to extract value from information without waiting, without dependencies, and without bottlenecks,” he says. “At At the same time, it allows exercising appropriate control and supervision that permits maintaining standards of quality and robustness.”
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What’s New, What’s Next for Value Stream Management
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 9, 2022
The focus is now on establishing end-to-end visibility and leveraging real-time data to encompass everything from agile planning to new software delivery and product launches. It’s not just development or IT operations, it is funding, planning, marketing, delivery, sales—it’s a whole-team exercise that leads to maximum customer value.
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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 5, 2023
IT leaders have always needed to exercise fiscal responsibility while meeting business demands for technology. Evaluating if the project will allow the company to increase revenues or replace an aging system that will ultimately save costs over time is a necessary exercise in eliminating projects that don’t move the needle,” he says. “A
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What is ITIL? Your guide to the IT Infrastructure Library
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 16, 2022
ITIL 4, the latest iteration of the ITIL framework, maintains the original focus with a stronger emphasis on fostering an agile and flexible IT department. Since ITIL’s last update, the IT department has grown to become integral to every business and the new framework accommodates this by being more agile, flexible, and collaborative.
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What the expanding role of the CIO means to Lenovo’s Arthur Hu
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Then it’s about building enterprise agility. Not just agile software teams, but ways to help turn the company into one that can go quicker at speed. Stepping back, I think when I started in the CIO role, topics such as digital transformation and business agility were top of mind.
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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 4, 2023
How often do teams schedule tabletop exercises to play out what-if scenarios? So the key question for CIOs is how they use this crisis to educate boards and executive committees on the fundamentals of agile software development and cloud operations.
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Learning Agility: What is It And How to Measure It?
Hacker Earth
DECEMBER 10, 2024
In the year 2004, two academicsMiachael Lombardo and Robert Eichingercoined the term learning agility and described it as one of the key metrics to measure leadership potential. Simply put, learning agility is a blend of curiosity, self-awareness, and a growth mindset. A lack of learning agility. What is learning agility?
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Broadcom Software 2022 Predictions
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 15, 2022
Any set of predictions about the coming months is by definition always a fraught exercise, and we know at Broadcom Software to always expect the unexpected. What will all this mean for the software world? That said, enjoy reading about what we anticipate you can expect in FY’22! Zero Trust becomes table stakes.
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A forensic look to modernize tech at South Africa’s SIU
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 23, 2023
While the SIU worked with a managed service provider (MSP) around the configuration aspect of the migration, and this partner gave them guidance, they ended up doing the actual migration exercise themselves. “We Communication and change management makes a massive difference.”
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Best practices for developing an actionable cyberresilience road map
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 8, 2023
Now, leading organizations are going further, embracing a cyberresilience paradigm designed to bring agility to incident response while ensuring sustainable business operations, whatever the event or impact. Pandemic-era ransomware attacks have highlighted the need for robust cybersecurity safeguards.
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How culture and strategic partnerships help fuel transformation
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 22, 2023
“With that in mind, we have a science-backed vitality platform that helps New Zealanders understand the current state of their health, remove barriers to better health, and create incentives to stay motivated to improve health through exercise and nutrition. Being able to show adaptability is key.
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16 best entry-level IT certifications to launch your career
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Exam fee: $1199 Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) Certified ScrumMaster is an entry-level certification offered by Scrum Alliance that is designed to validate your skills and abilities using Scrum, a popular agile development framework.
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