Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

I ask this question to agile leaders working with five or more teams: What boundaries and empowerments do you set for your self-organizing teams? . More specifically, are their agile teams free to choose their own tools and technologies? Do you have defined quality,

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JULY 25, 2022

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. When I hear from CIOs, IT Leaders, and other .

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Social, Agile and Transformation

AUGUST 24, 2020

While the words I'm using to describe a data science are different than software development, the process and mindset are very applicable to agile methodologies. . Data science requires questions, hypotheses, discovery, analysis, and recalibration. And just like software development, data science requires a.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

A few weeks ago, I suggested three questions that could spark a discussion and debate over your organization’s agile principles. I believe every organization applying agile methodologies across multiple teams needs to define their agile ways of working –.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 1, 2025

Efforts to gain market strength As a tour operator, Soltours short- and medium-term objectives focus on continuing to offer innovative solutions to travel agencies, and all of this with the aim of optimizing agency operations with more agile and personalized tools.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 20, 2023

I’ve led many successful application development, cloud migration, and data/analytics programs over the years, and I staffed most of them with a mix of employees, freelancers, and service providers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

In Italy specifically, more than 52% of companies, and CIOs in particular, continue to struggle finding the technical professionals they need, according to data by Unioncamere, the Italian Union of Chambers of Commerce, and the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies. million compared to about 3.6

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 16, 2023

In Chapter 5 of my book, Digital Trailblazer, I share several of my stories of helping organizations define their agile ways of working. If you’re married to a framework, it’s hard for leaders to develop agile cultures and mindsets.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2023

The pandemic accelerated the urgency for reform in health and social care around the world, which strained resources to unprecedented levels. It all reduces the ability to arrive at a budget settlement that shifts resources into the health and social care space. So you can see how my job has had to react to all of those stimulants.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 10, 2025

Companies must mitigate the ethical and social risks of AI, navigate complex and evolving regulations, and prevent operational and security failures. To remain agile, organizations must balance innovation with compliance and manage risks while adapting to constantly changing AI regulations and standards.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Focusing on agility, innovation, and transformation competencies, the blog aims to help leaders navigate change. Isaac Sacolick reflects on nearly 20 years of blogging, announcing the launch of a revamped blog called Drive, emphasizing its core theme of leadership in digital transformation.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The collaboration needed by Digital Trailblazers, especially ones leading DevOps and agile teams, is rarely achieved by jumping from meeting room to meeting room or expecting people Requiring a strict in-office presence can be hard on many employees with long commutes, family caretakers, or people with physical disabilities.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

While many organizations have adopted agile methodologies, there’s a gap between what leaders expect from these practices and what they deliver. This year’s State of Agile report (the 17th of their annual reports) shows the gap is widening and points to some of the underlying issues for technology

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Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Many agile and scrum teams want to be left alone so that they can do their work. The last thing they want is leaders looking over their shoulders and overseeing their to-do lists, even when they struggle to complete their sprint commitments.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

This is my 500th post on this blog, Social, Agile, and Transformation (and almost 700 across all websites), so I hope you will celebrate this milestone with me! I started this blog back in 2005 when a friend told me that my startup needed to be "plugged into the blogosphere."

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2025

But its the practice and effort put in to be more agile with emerging technologies and cultural shifts that will realize a more fulfilled reality as business outcomes. Turbulent transformations In theory, this mindset would help stabilize organizations.

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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. This certification demonstrates your ability to work on or lead an agile team.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 21, 2020

As more organizations have embarked on agile software development over the last five years as part of digital transformation programs, the term technical debt is more widely understood. Teams that develop code leave artifacts behind that require improvements, reengineering, refactoring, or wholesale rewriting.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

I despise the yearly performance management process. Once a year, managers and leaders care enough about their employees’ goals and development plans and must ceremonially record objectives in HR’s performance management system.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Apps are pivotal in enabling companies to innovate and gain a competitive edge in digital interactions, from social selling to data-driven marketing. From a technology perspective, this means having an agile and flexible IT environment,” said Paul Chik, Hong Kong Solution Leader at Kyndryl.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

AUGUST 19, 2024

Gather a DevOps or data science team to define the architecture for a new application, data lakehouse, or AI service, and you’re likely to run into debates on technical approaches and disputes on platforms. When reviewing implementation options, teams will question which standards apply and are key factors in making technical decisions.

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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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Social, Agile and Transformation

APRIL 4, 2022

She learned agile, led offshore development teams, and developed her confidence to become an architect on several modern SaaS platforms. She was a developer with an innate talent for UX. A leader with big ideas but trapped supporting a website on an outdated content management system.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 29, 2025

This helps customers become more operationally agile and generate value in a constantly evolving environment while adhering to social responsibility and sustainability initiatives. SAP brings RISE with SAP to the table, helping businesses automate processes and unlock business agility.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

AUGUST 7, 2023

Over the next few years, we’ll see a seismic shift in how devops organizations, agile development teams, site reliability engineers, and IT Ops will achieve an increasingly complex mission.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 4, 2021

So in my last post on the elephant in the room, I promised to share with you a dashboard to help find my best articles on digital transformation, agile planning, product management,

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 14, 2022

Commitments to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives are table stakes for organizations today. Doing so can ensure that the organization is driving the desired agility from its transformation program while simultaneously propelling ESG initiatives. Cloud migration and enterprise architecture.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 29, 2021

We're agile, sort of fragile, and unfortunately. "We need a meeting to decide who to attend to the next meeting so we can review what we didn't cover in the last one.". Why are we working on this initiative?" What problem are you trying to solve?" Let's meet to get on the same page.".

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 5, 2024

After working in a traditional IT organization until 2019, H&M switched to working agile. It turned out to be more difficult to handle than was intended because the tech landscape wasn’t quite as agile as the organizational structure,” she says. “So

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Social, Agile and Transformation

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

My journey into blogging and speaking began 18 years ago when someone told me, “Isaac, great social networking site, but it needs to plug into the blogosphere.” Today’s post, my 1,000th published article, marks an achievement I am tremendously proud of and excited to share. Here’s the funny story of how I started writing.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 11, 2024

A couple of years ago, I led an agile transformation program for a major hospital system. They asked me to train their project managers on agile methodologies and apply agile/scrum to several

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Coupled with the leanness and agility of SMBs, centering GenAI in their long-term strategy is an increasingly compelling move for many businesses. Driving innovation by easing content creation Yet even as GenAI is transforming the dynamics of business, not every SMB has seized this opportunity.

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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. It’s also about being part of a community.

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Dataconomy

MARCH 26, 2025

The tech startup paid $207 million for Napster and plans to breathe new life into the platform by transforming it into a social music hub. Infinite Reality confirmed the purchase Tuesday, detailing the companys vision to modernize and socialize music streaming and connect artists with fans. Is Lars Ulrich losing it, do you think?

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Social, Agile and Transformation

AUGUST 19, 2024

One problem leads to many solutions, which can drive architects, DevOps, and data science teams to debate and dispute platforms and architectures.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Saudi Arabias Vision 2030 emphasizes a technology-driven transformation to achieve its social, economic, and environmental goals, focusing on adopting and producing advanced innovations to position itself as a global leader in technological disruption.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Additionally, with ongoing supply chain issues and skills shortages, organizations can scale productivity by using industry cloud platforms and platform engineering to empower agile teams with self-service capabilities to increase the pace of product delivery.

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