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5 reasons why Agile transformation fails

CIO Business Intelligence

When executives got tired of long project timelines, unclear requirements, and missed deadlines, Agile seemed like the ultimate solution since it promised faster delivery, more flexibility, and closer alignment to business needs so the strategy could be realized quicker and with a higher ROI. Agile can’t fix this. No methodology can.

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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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Rethinking enterprise architects’ roles for agile transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

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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12 ways to accelerate digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

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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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

2024 GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report — explores the biggest technological trends in procurement and supply chain, from generative AI and the advancement of low-code development tools to the data management and analytics applications that unlock agility, cost efficiency, and informed decision-making.

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A blueprint for successfully executing business-aligned IT strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

Structured frameworks such as the Stakeholder Value Model provide a method for evaluating how IT projects impact different stakeholders, while tools like the Business Model Canvas help map out how technology investments enhance value propositions, streamline operations, and improve financial performance.

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7 signs it’s time to modernize your IT systems

CIO Business Intelligence

Rather than view this situation as a hindrance, it can be framed as an opportunity to reassess the value of existing tools, with an eye toward potentially squeezing more value out of them prior to modernizing them. A first step, Rasmussen says, is ensuring that existing tools are delivering maximum value.

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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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Building Like Amazon

Speaker: Leo Zhadanovsky, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

To get there, Amazon focused on decomposing for agility, making critical cultural and operational changes, and creating tools for software delivery. Whether you're developing for a small startup or a large corporation, learning the tools for CI/CD will make your good DevOps team great. The "two pizza" team culture.