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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

Should the team not be able to make all of these architectural decisions by themselves? Great for our agility, but it also has consequences. Organizing architecture guided by two perspectives. First-of-all, architectural scopes are not to be seen as static elements. As a starter, we see architecture as a function.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

Should the team not be able to make all of these architectural decisions by themselves? Great for our agility, but it also has consequences. Organizing architecture guided by two perspectives. First-of-all, architectural scopes are not to be seen as static elements. As a starter, we see architecture as a function.

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3 key roles for driving digital success

CIO

They must collaborate with execution teams on an agile process that adopts continuous planning , delivery, and transformation practices and seeks customer feedback to adjust priorities. Product leaders are most responsible for a digital transformation initiative’s scope, priorities, and change management.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

If you ask someone, they’ll often recite a list of a dozen potential benefits of cloud — lower costs, better security, greater agility, and so on,” says Smith. data, security, development, architecture) as well. How will we balance security, agility, and usability? But that doesn’t answer the question.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget. Whether agile should include FinOps or not is a matter of debate,” he says. You also sacrifice the opportunity to standardize on optimization, operations, security management and so on,” he adds.

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13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation

CIO

This underlines the need for organizations to embrace change and adopt a more agile and forward-thinking approach to digital transformation skills in order to overcome challenges and achieve digital transformation,” says Monika Sinha, research vice president in Gartner’s CIO Research group. Data skills are also vital, says NCC Group’s Fox.

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Automating compliance in software delivery

CircleCI

Implementing well-known compliance best practices is a great way to measure your competence in internal corporate governance, risk management processes, organizational oversight policies, vendor management, and general security awareness. Comprehensive testing and change management. URL parameters are obscured.