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Software project management challenges — and how to handle them

CIO Business Intelligence

The intersection of agile software development practices and ‘traditional’ project management remains a challenge for many organizations,” Chowning says. “By This can present a dilemma, as the software development practice and the project management practice try to proceed in two completely different and disconnected approaches.”

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Five Trends in 2023 Strategic Portfolio Planning

CIO Business Intelligence

The Pressure on Project Management Offices (PMOs) Will Intensify The stakes for digital transformation continue to grow within today’s enterprises. Tools and Methodologies Will Converge In years past, different methodologies and associated tools sprouted up within organizations, and operated in a relatively siloed fashion.

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Are Your Agency’s Management Tools Defeating Your Efforts?

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Are tasks completed in a timely fashion, or do your teams run into frequent bottlenecks? Most frequently, a poor choice of project management tools is to blame. Too often, project management software designed for productivity has the opposite effect. Simplicity is the Golden Rule. Closing Thoughts.

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4 Reasons to Outsource Large IT Projects During Economic Headwinds

CIO Business Intelligence

The right partner can bring a team of highly skilled engineers together in a matter of days or weeks, allowing you to accelerate development and deliver your key projects in a timely fashion. Key talent can be added and removed from projects as needed.

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The CIO role today: Change agents need only apply

CIO Business Intelligence

The first two hires Cannava made when he joined Ping Identity in mid-2021 were not pure IT workers, but were a business analyst and a project manager, he notes. Cannava sees the CIO role as enabling changes across the organization , and that requires a deep and broad understanding of the business.

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What is SAFe? A framework for scaling business agility

CIO Business Intelligence

At the Team Level, an organization may have a number of teams working in an agile fashion toward a particular goal or solution. Create a Lean agile center of excellence: Creating a center of excellence (CoE) will help ensure companywide optimized performance rather than simply practicing agile project management within specific domains.

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The CIO’s call to action on gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

CIOs also have tremendous experience with running projects and initiatives that are run from a project management perspective, where they can use the proper business case and can think of the risk mitigation. What are your thoughts on the creation of a new Chief AI Officer role?