CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 31, 2025

Speed and agility bring in the top transformation prize. Go all-in with agile Another way to ensure IT can quickly deliver transformative results is to go all-in with modern approaches, starting with a full embrace of agile development. The 2024 State of Agile report from Digital.ai

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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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Forrester IT

JUNE 12, 2017

This year I'm excited to have my team colleague Amanda joining me in the bi-annual Forrester Agile at Scale Adoption survey. So in addition to successful Agile team practices, alignment with business stakeholders upstream and downstream with testing and operations, we are looking into more Agile at scale issues like budgeting and DevOps.

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Forrester IT

APRIL 4, 2018

There are two types of Agile people in the world: Capital “A” Agile people equate “agile” with Agile software development methodologies or frameworks. Agile requires specific roles, processes, and deliverables. You have to do Agile, to be Agile.

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Information Week

DECEMBER 11, 2020

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

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Forrester IT

MAY 2, 2017

The most dangerous parallel initiatives are those where, on one side, they are changing their development teams to become more Agile, but a separate initiative in the same enterprise exists where their Operations folks are running a development and operations (DevOps) transformation. Read more Categories: Agile.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Angelic Gibson, CIO at accounts payable automation software and payment solutions provider AvidXchange, agrees that removing friction in the developer workflow can enhance agile innovation. Streamlining to optimize productivity Agile software development is essential to innovate and retain competitiveness.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 28, 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 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

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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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

To do so, CIOs must continuously improve their product management, program management, and delivery capabilities to wow customers and deliver competitive advantages, all while steering clear of surefire DX mistakes such as prioritizing too many initiatives and underinvesting in developing digital trailblazers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

He expects the same to happen in all areas of software development, starting with user requirements research through project management and all the way to testing and quality assurance. For the last 15 years or so, its been the de-facto standard for how modern software development works, says Monteiro.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2025

According to research from NTT DATA , 90% of organisations acknowledge that outdated infrastructure severely curtails their capacity to integrate cutting-edge technologies, including GenAI, negatively impacts their business agility, and limits their ability to innovate. [1]

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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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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. . And just like software development, data science requires a. Data science requires questions, hypotheses, discovery, analysis, and recalibration.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 20, 2024

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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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The space and time to innovate will lead to better software that handles the vicissitudes of business. You need the human creativity of your developers captured in the half-machine/half-thought medium of code to be agile. Affection might be a better word than attachment.

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Forrester IT

JUNE 13, 2017

This year I'm excited to be teaming up with Diego Lo Giudice on the bi-annual Forrester Agile at Scale Adoption survey. So in addition to successful Agile team practices, alignment with business stakeholders upstream and downstream with testing and operations, we are looking into more Agile at scale issues like budgeting and DevOps.

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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

JANUARY 7, 2025

Transformational CIOs continuously invest in their operating model by developing product management, design thinking, agile, DevOps, change management, and data-driven practices. SAS CIO Jay Upchurch says successful CIOs in 2025 will build an integrated IT roadmap that blends generative AI with more mature AI strategies.

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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. Scaled Agile: Scaled Agile is a key provider of agile training, courses, and certification, including SAFe.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 1, 2023

In a world where companies are defined by the digital services they can deliver, software agility IS business agility, and in turn results in better business outcomes. The complexity of today’s digital systems has multiple points of friction that need to be addressed if we are to achieve true business agility.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JUNE 8, 2020

The 14th annual state of agile report is now available, and it's one of the papers I look forward to reviewing every year. It surveys over one thousand software development professionals from a mix of company sizes, development team sizes, geographies, and industries.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

What CIOs can do: Avoid and reduce data debt by incorporating data governance and analytics responsibilities in agile data teams , implementing data observability , and developing data quality metrics. For this reason, organizations with significant data debt may find pursuing many gen AI opportunities more challenging and risky.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Which software development methodology is best? As a CIO I suspect that you are well aware that there are a number of different ways that your IT teams can go about developing software (and doing a lot of other things). It all begins with the waterfall approach to developing software.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 15, 2025

The idea was coined by legendary programmer Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto, and he laid it out succinctly at the OOPSLA conference in 1992 : Shipping first-time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with refactoring.

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Computer Weekly

MAY 22, 2017

Digital transformation consultancy Pivotal explains how paired programming, an empathetic work culture and open source PaaS help enterprises achieve their agile software development goals

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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

APRIL 25, 2022

The Church of Agile is being corrupted from within by institutional forces that have refused or been unable to adapt to the radical humanity embodied in its collaborative, self-organizing, cross-functional teams. Agile wasn’t supposed to be this way. The broken promise of Agile. A sham of true Scrum.

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Flexagon

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The Software Development Life Cycle, or SDLC, is the process of planning, designing, developing, testing, and deploying high-quality software at the lowest cost possible, preferably in the shortest amount of time. The post 7 Software Development Models You Should Know appeared first on Flexagon.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 28, 2023

Agile project management definition Agile project management is a methodology used primarily in software development that favors flexibility and collaboration, incorporating customer feedback throughout the project life cycle.

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

In any conversation focused on Agile, it takes some time to figure out what each party means when they use the term. In my early research on Agile procurement in government (and Agile procurement in general), almost all of those conversations quickly devolved into what groups were doing Agile software development.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 27, 2020

I've written several posts on the CIO and leadership roles in agile transformation, agile adoption, and agile practices.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JULY 27, 2020

I'm asked this question on selecting agile KPIs all the time from leaders. . Some want to try measuring agile methodologies with the same project management measurements that worked for them in the past, while others are trying to establish some oversight on a process that they don' fully understand.

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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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Network World

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Speed and agility in competitive markets is critical, especially within the company’s systems division serving the data center sector. Talks about an acquisition of engineering software developer Bentley Systems ended in May, possibly hindered by the reluctance of the family controlling the target to relinquish control.

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