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No Scrum Master? No Problem - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

No Scrum Master? How should Enterprises fill the Scrum Master Role? I field this question very often and especially from members of technology organizations where agile and scrum in particular is being introduced top down from Management. Note: Scrum of scrums really works for this scenario!). No Problem.

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Top Ten Thoughts for SCRUM Newbies - Social, Agile, and.

Social, Agile and Transformation

Top Ten Thoughts for SCRUM Newbies. My colleagues and I from BusinessWeek gave a presentation last week covering our agile planning and development process and ended with an intro to SCRUM by @silviogalea. Roughly the same time, @jurgenappelo posted an excellent, easy to follow slideshare on The Zen of SCRUM 1.0. Newer Post.

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Product-based IT: A blueprint for success

CIO Business Intelligence

Leadership worked to identify process owners within the business to become product owners within product families that are essentially owned by IT, according to Gary Jeter, Trust One’s executive vice president and chief technology officer. Establishing technology and business owners also drives collaboration. CIO, USPTO.

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7 IT leadership hacks that deliver results

CIO Business Intelligence

And, on the flip side, it’s just as important to be mindful of team chemistry and take action when there’s a problem, says Srini Kadiyala, CTO of OvalEdge. A well-organized meeting can help reduce isolation in technology teams, argues Megan Alarid, whose consultancy The Heightened Leaders advises executives.

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Team Leadership in the Age of Agile

Speaker: Roy Osherove, Technology and Leadership Consultant

To do this, you've learned a wide variety of techniques and methodologies - SCRUM, Kanban, TDD, DevOps, self-organized teams, and much more. As a senior software leader, you spend much of your time trying to optimize your team's performance – from increasing delivery rate and velocity to reducing defect rates and waste.

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Lufthansa’s digital future takes flight with ‘Digital Hangar’

CIO Business Intelligence

Each Hangar houses agile coaches, business analysts, data and analytics specialists, product owners, Scrum masters, software engineers, and user interface designers — all with one mission: to elevate the airlines’ digital customer experience before, during, and after the flight. We believe the differentiator is your own data.”

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Broadcom Software Return to Face-to-Face Customer Engagements

CIO Business Intelligence

It doesn’t matter how good everything looks on paper; when you’re the CIO, CTO, CISO, or CPO of a large organization dealing with a big supplier of many of your business-critical applications, face-to-face, personal engagement with the individuals driving those software roadmaps and supporting services is critical.

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