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Welcome to the Era of Extreme Agile

Information Week

Extreme circumstances necessitate extreme agility. Here's how to weather the storm amid widespread, systemic change.

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How to talk to your board about tech debt

CIO Business Intelligence

Most importantly, position technical debt management not as a cost center, but as an investment in business agility and competitive advantage. By framing technical debt in these terms, you’re more likely to get the support and resources needed to address this critical challenge.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Being a successful IT consultant requires knowing how to walk in the shoes of your IT clients and their business leaders, says Scott Buchholz,CTO of the government and public services sector practice at consulting firm Deloitte. As a result, for IT consultants, keeping the pulse of the technology market is essential.

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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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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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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 Implement AIOps for SD-WAN in Your Network

Information Week

Organizations require a strong strategy in implementing this at their branches to improve operational efficiency and branch agility. Bringing this powerful capability to SD-WAN transforms branch infrastructure and reduces complexity.

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Business Agile: A Roadmap for Transforming Your Management & Adapting to the VUCA Environment

Speaker: Peter Taylor, Speaker/Author, The Lazy Project Manager

Business agile is an approach that gives the right business flexibility and fast decision-making in a volatile environment, providing a great capacity for innovation, adaptation and change. Businesses everywhere are trying to “get business agile”—but it’s not easy to adapt to becoming this adaptive.

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Team Leadership in the Age of Agile

Speaker: Roy Osherove, Technology and Leadership Consultant

In this webinar, you will learn: How to recognize which state your team is currently in. How to move teams from survival mode, to learning mode, to being wholly self-organized. When and how to encourage learning in your team. How to communicate with others in the C-Suite about reasonable expectations for your team.

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

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

Join Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant as he discusses how we can educate and equip our QA/QC process to forge champions of customer experience. Sign up now and learn how to: Reexamine what processes your QA & Dev teams already have. Revitalize QA as champions. Review customer feedback surveys.

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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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More Effective Agile Leadership

Speaker: Steve McConnell, CEO, Construx Software

We all strive to be effective Agile leaders. But how do you know if you're succeeding? Join Steve McConnell, CEO of Construx Software, as he distills hundreds of companies’-worth of real-world experience into the proven Agile leadership practices that work best. Adapt your implementation of Agile to your industry context.

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

Our profession is undergoing a transformation, moving away from rigid, one-size-fits-all methodologies. 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.

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A Masterclass in How to Navigate the Messy Connection Between Work and Value in Your Team

Speaker: Dave West, CEO of Scrum.org

Everyone knows that agile approaches are designed to deliver value. The idea of incremental delivery in pursuit of a mission for customers is fundamental to Scrum and the Agile Manifesto. He outlines how changes to the Scrum Guide have shone a spotlight on the challenge that many teams face when delivering more value.

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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.