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. Then you’ll need to meet the prerequisites for the certification(s) you choose. What is SAFe certification?

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The same is not true, sadly, for many agile project management and development initiatives. Too often, an organization may launch something that looks like an agile program, calls itself an agile program, claims to operate like an agile program, yet really isn’t an agile program in the least.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) explained The Scaled Agile Framework encompasses a set of principles, processes, and best practices that helps larger organizations adopt agile methodologies , such as Lean, Kanban, and Scrum , to deliver high-quality products and services faster.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 25, 2022

Here, agility is essential, and smart IT leaders are doubling down on efforts to streamline IT, whether that involves reprioritizing projects and realigning the IT portfolio, rationalizing applications and pursuing cloud-native approaches, increasing automation through DevOps or AIOps adoption, or overhauling the structure of IT operations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Paring down agile Another change the digital organization has gone through recently is to start backing away from a pure agile approach. Volvo Cars’ digital department started to work agilely according to the SAFe Framework in a product-oriented model in 2018. But even with great advantages came disadvantages.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

There is the classic method that has been used for over 40 years called “waterfall” Then there’s the new upstart in town that everyone seems to be flocking to called “agile” All of these options can place a CIO in a difficult place. These will, of course, result in additional project costs and time.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Scrum is a powerful framework for implementing agile processes in software development and other projects. This highly adopted framework utilizes short iterations of work, called sprints, and daily meetings, called scrums, to tackle discrete portions of a project in succession until the project is complete.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2022

That’s what’s driven us toward the concept of the Agile Scrum, a philosophy that Broadcom Software decided to adopt for our international sales team. . For those unfamiliar with the terminology, I’m talking about a project management philosophy. Agile and Scrum are often thought to be one and the same, but they’re not.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 16, 2023

IT organizations have worked hard to get away from the problems that had plagued their past project delivery processes. They have replaced expansive scopes, the waterfall methodology, and long timelines with iterative development, the agile approach, and multiweek sprints, hoping to avert the big failures that have littered IT’s history.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 25, 2024

A consultant should put the client’s needs and priorities at the forefront of every interaction and decision, and “understand their business objectives, challenges, and preferences to tailor solutions that meet their specific requirements,” says Vijay Sonty, CIO at Community College of Philadelphia, who also works as an executive consultant.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 24, 2024

Prioritize relevance and accuracy, and discard anything that doesn’t meet the highest standards. This includes data scientists, engineers, domain experts, and project managers. A team that’s not at the cutting edge will drag your project into oblivion. Embrace the agile mindset: plan, execute, review, and refine.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

It requires a different mindset, as well as an agile, ready-to-experiment workforce that is change-savvy. Short-term thinking and lack of agility Digital transformation is a long-term process, and a short-term mindset can derail the entire effort. Digital transformation requires agility and flexibility.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Instead, they should consider partnering with experts who practice change management for a living, Hafez advises. You wouldnt hire someone who doesnt know how to write code to develop your software, so why would you expect a project manager or business analyst to drive change management?

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 22, 2023

They must collaborate with execution teams on an agile process that adopts continuous planning , delivery, and transformation practices and seeks customer feedback to adjust priorities. Product leaders are most responsible for a digital transformation initiative’s scope, priorities, and change management.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Optimize data flows for agility. Limit the times data must be moved to reduce cost, increase data freshness, and optimize enterprise agility. Not all data architectures leverage cloud storage, but many modern data architectures use public, private, or hybrid clouds to provide agility. Cloud storage. Cloud computing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 23, 2022

They plan meetings for maximum effectiveness. Whenever possible, efficient CIOs schedule and plan meetings in advance, giving themselves and team members plenty of time to prepare. Make the meeting schedule a public and transparent part of IT governance,” advises Bill VanCuren, CIO at software and services company NCR.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Cloud software engineer Cloud software engineers are tasked with developing and maintaining software applications that run on cloud platforms, ensuring they are built to be scalable, reliable, and agile. Role growth: 19% of companies have added cloud software engineer roles as part of their cloud investments.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 8, 2023

CSM certification Agile practices are being rapidly adopted in project and product management across many industries, and the ScrumMaster is an important leadership role in agile development to not only improve workflow but increase your value as your career evolves.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Define projects in terms of software delivery, so IT’s job is done when software satisfies requirements and meets specifications. Assign project sponsors It’s well known in project management circles that every project must have a business sponsor or it has little chance of succeeding. Want to go Agile?

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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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2024

The goal of GRC, in general, is to ensure that proper policies and controls are in place to reduce risk, to set up a system of checks and balances to alert personnel when new risks materialize, and to manage business processes more efficiently and proactively. Is GRC certification worth it?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 28, 2022

Foote does not report on any SAP certifications, but among the 579 certifications it does report on, architecture, project management, process and information security certifications remain the most valuable, commanding a pay premium of just over 8%. Among them, only TensorFlow and SRE fell.).

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2023

Your system can evolve organically, moving toward a more agile form, rather than undergoing a disruptive “big bang” transformation. It fosters greater agility, customization capabilities, seamless integration, and the ability to explore new sales channels, ensuring continued success in the ever-evolving digital market.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Some certifications in project management , governance, and architecture also attract big bonuses, with CGEIT (Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT) pulling in a 14% pay premium, up 27% over the last six months, and TOGAF 9 Certified (The Open Group’s Enterprise Architecture Framework certification) attracting a 12%premium, up 9%.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 26, 2024

IT consultants spend a large portion of their job meeting with clients to discuss the next steps they plan to take in updating and maintaining their technology, where they can offer advice about which new technological developments might contribute to their success, according to career website Indeed.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

IT leaders have always needed to exercise fiscal responsibility while meeting business demands for technology. Realign support levels Support costs are another area where IT leaders can recoup funding, paying only for what’s required to meet necessary service levels for the business.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 19, 2024

In the new organization, the platform engineering teams work hand-in-hand with four agile-organized software development teams. While the USPTO has some 200 applications for the most critical ones that are large, complex, and have a lot of releases, Simms assigns a team member to attend the product team’s scrum meetings and stand-ups.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This example sounds straightforward, but it emphasizes something subtle about relationship management that goes beyond roles-based working arrangements. Contrary to development methodologies like agile, here you’re not trying to engage the entire project team on every phase of the project.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 1, 2022

Internal skills marketplaces are emerging as a means for retaining tech workers while also meeting demands for agile digital environments. Meanwhile, project managers need to connect work that needs to be done with the right set of skills, some of which might come from a subfunction of IT.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 26, 2022

Foote does not report on any SAP certifications, but among the 579 certifications it does report on, architecture, project management, process and information security certifications remain the most valuable, commanding a pay premium of just over 8%. Among them, only TensorFlow and SRE fell.).

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Students are taught the IT skills necessary for roles such as desktop analyst, business analyst, and junior project manager. These cohorts meet monthly over the course of a year, giving participants the chance to gain perspective, advice, and career help from others in the program.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Adobe, Equinix, Lenovo, and G-P were strategically situated and equipped to achieve the ideal duality: leverage global talent to realize cost efficiencies and realize the effectiveness of an agile team, yet in a distributed operating model. team members flew to Queretaro for cross-location agile product operating model training.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Getting that opportunity to be in the office and meeting everybody took two or three times the time it would normally take,” he said. Agile methodologies helped things tick over, too, as well as planning work into weekly chunks, and having the technology team collaborate in daily stand-ups.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 17, 2024

Bev White, CEO at recruiter Nash Squared, says the growing role of the CIO is unsurprising since digital leaders hold the attributes to lead a successful digital transformation: technical ability, boardroom influence, and project management skills. These capabilities make digital leaders well placed to lead large-scale change projects.

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