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Product-based IT: 6 key steps for making the switch

CIO Business Intelligence

People in business functions didnt want to give up their project mindsets and control of getting what they needed from IT in the timelines required. As SaaS and other technology companies began to abandon traditional project management, product-based IT became a bold shift to business value.

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How Birmingham’s $48M Oracle ERP project turned into an epic failure

CIO Business Intelligence

In a damning audit report , Grant Thornton has exposed how the project implementation turned into a cautionary tale of project mismanagement, highlighting critical failures in governance, technical oversight, and vendor management that continue to impact the councils core operations.

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3 ways to help secure the course of a new transformation program

CIO Business Intelligence

It can be easy to neglect the start of your transformation program when your organization and team are set on the larger, big-picture goals of the initiative. You can expect issues, challenges, and problems will occur during the life of your program, but starting strong is the first step to run a great project.

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Big Data Project Management: Data Must Flow!

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I'm currently researching big data project management in order to better understand what makes big data projects different from other tech related projects. So far I've interviewed more than a dozen government, private sector, and academic professionals, all of them experienced in managing data intensive projects.

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Ada Developers Academy: A no-cost career program that aims to diversify IT

CIO Business Intelligence

After connecting with a former Adie — the nickname for students in the program — and confirming the program was indeed real, Burrows says she “couldn’t wait to apply.”. Beatrice Tohni found out about the program when a friend texted her a link to Ada Developers Academy saying, “This sounds like the perfect program for you.”

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Thinking About “Data Program Governance”

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One phrase in regular rotation in my elevator pitch is “data program governance." The individual words are straightforward: Data includes any kind of data such as numeric, financial, textual, image, or meta. Program means an organized set of activities designed to accomplish a defined set of objectives. What does that mean?

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Top 10 governance, risk, and compliance certifications

CIO Business Intelligence

A variety of roles in the enterprise require or benefit from a GRC certification, such as chief information officer, IT security analyst, security engineer architect, information assurance program manager, and senior IT auditor , among others. Enter the need for competent governance, risk and compliance (GRC) professionals.