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On An Agile scaling journey ? Take our survey to find out how you are doing.

Forrester IT

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. This means truly linking Agile initiatives, Design thinking and DevOps with business value. agile software development.

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SAFe certification: launch your Scaled Agile Framework career

CIO Business Intelligence

SAFe Agilist The SAFe Agilist certification works best for a program or project manager , Scrum master , team lead, release train engineer, change agent, or others who are part of a Lean transformation. The 45-question exam tests candidates’ ability to: Facilitate Scrum events. Implement DevOps for continuous flow and delivery.

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Digital transformation’s fundamental change management mistake

CIO Business Intelligence

Underpinning these initiatives is a slew of technology capabilities and strategies aimed at accelerating delivery cycles, such as establishing product management disciplines, building cloud architectures, developing devops capabilities, and fostering agile cultures. This dip delays when the business can start realizing the value delivered.

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Why Define Your WoW! Agile, DevOps, Product Management Way of Working

Social, Agile and Transformation

Can the scrum masters lead agile backlogs the way that worked for them at one of their previous jobs? 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?

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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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Top 8 IT certifications in demand today

CIO Business Intelligence

Professional Scrum Master (PSM) Offered by Scrum.org, the Professional Scrum Master (PSM) certification is one of several Scrum-focused certifications for validating that you have knowledge of the Scrum framework, and the ability to apply it in real-world situations. Careers, Certifications, IT Skills

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3 force multipliers for digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Assemble a team of Scrum coaches, and they’re likely to debate how much empowerment self-organizing teams require, when to estimate user stories, and whether sprints remain relevant when devops teams are automating deployments with CI/CD. Today, many CIOs must determine which agile tools to use and where to create practice standards.

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