CIO

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Generative AI continues to dominate IT projects for many organizations, with two thirds of business leaders telling a Harris Poll they’ve already deployed generative AI tools internally, and IDC predicting spend on gen AI will more than double in 2024. But the usual laundry list of priorities for IT hasn’t gone away.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2023

“The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.” The need to reorient IT’s budget toward future opportunities is one big reason CIOs are reviewing their IT portfolios now.

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Apiumhub

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Software asset management tools are specialized software applications designed to help organizations manage and optimize their software assets throughout their lifecycle. Usage Tracking: Software asset management tools monitor the actual usage of software applications.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget.

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CIO

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Depending on the role, a business analyst might work with data sets to improve products, hardware, tools, software, services, or process. Not all business analysts need a background in IT if they have a general understanding of how systems, products, and tools work.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Investing in Agility. One of the recurring themes in this book is that, in order to be Agile, your organization has to buy in to the underlying Agile philosophy. They’re the secret to Agile success.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

As a result, most IT functions have seen budget increases, support for more staff, and higher involvement in shaping enterprise strategy , according to multiple reports. This reinvention goes beyond the adoption of cloud, agile development principles, and cutting-edge technologies. Even 20 people in a meeting takes too long.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

5, Insufficient budget Digital transformation can be expensive, and executive leadership teams that do not allocate enough budget to the initiative may struggle to succeed. It requires a different mindset, as well as an agile, ready-to-experiment workforce that is change-savvy.

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CIO

JUNE 3, 2024

Pay-as-you-go” models are touted as cost-efficient but strain budgets without financial oversight diving deep into service usage vs. actual business needs. The bottom line: CFOs and CIOs need fixed costs for easier budgeting and forecasting. Combine AI and FinOps tools for continuous monitoring and scenario analysis.

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CIO

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Scrum is a powerful framework for implementing agile processes in software development and other projects. The Scrum master is the leader of a Scrum team and is responsible for championing a project, providing guidance to the team and product owner, and ensuring all agile practices are followed by team members. Others do not.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Increasingly, innovation relies on the key tenets of agility and speed. But CIOs grapple to reconcile advancing agility and speed with the complexities of managing multicloud and sprawling edge environments built on disparate standards and formats. Compatibility also reduces operational complexity.

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James Shore

MAY 25, 2022

Jessica Kerr is a software developer, speaker, and symmathecist—a participant in a system where people, tools, and software all learn from each other. Given a limited budget, which aspects of observability would you prioritize first? The Art of Agile Development Book Club takes place Fridays from 8:00 – 8:45am Pacific.

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scruminc

JULY 30, 2020

My talk on “Why 47% of Agile Transformations Fail!” My slides are posted here - Why 47% of Agile Transformations Fail. A recent Forbes survey indicated to me that about 47% of Agile Transformations fail and 77% of Agile Transformations are Scrum transformations so most of the failures are due to bad Scrum. Successful.

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CIO

JUNE 26, 2023

They are accountable for the entire project scope , the project team and resources, the project budget, and the success or failure of the project. To succeed in their role, project managers must be adept at coordinating resources, managing budgets, measuring and tracking project progress, and communicating with team members and stakeholders.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Building an effective GenAI strategy is about much more than launching a point solution or siloed group of tools that only work for one part of the business. Budgets to build new innovations It’s always a challenge to find the budget to build new innovations and platforms when the primary focus of the CIO is to keep the business running.

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Mentormate

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In the two decades since its introduction, the Agile methodology and its core idea of minimum viable product have risen to prominence in software development. These are compatible approaches that can yield products with better traction, higher value, and greater long-term results than Agile alone. The Agile Revolution.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Gartner recently lowered their expectations for IT budgets to increase by just 2.2% The spending just needs to be more focused on modernizing legacy systems and streamlining tools for higher efficiency and lower redundancy where possible. Here are tips for making the most of your IT budget in a recession. global inflation rate.

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Apiumhub

JANUARY 17, 2019

Whether it’s software development or project management, leading an agile team is not an easy task at all. Things can anytime go haywire if you don’t have the right agile tools in your arsenal. That’s why we are going to discuss 11 superb agile tools for software teams to help them respond to changes quickly and effectively.

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James Shore

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. What Is Agile? Agile is everywhere. In the 20 years after the Agile freight train roared into software developers’ conscious, the number of companies calling themselves “Agile” increased by orders of magnitude.

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Modus Create

JULY 21, 2020

Agile at Scale, or Scaled Agile, is all the rage! When and who should implement Scaled Agile? Scaled Agile is a way for organizations with many teams to plan, coordinate, and track work on large initiatives. In this blog post, we’ll review why, when, and how organizations should consider adopting Scaled Agile.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Invest in Agility. As we saw in the previous chapter, in order for your teams to get the benefits of Agile, your organization has to buy in to the underlying Agile philosophy. Second Edition cover.

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Agile Engine

DECEMBER 3, 2023

An even stronger pressure, however, is for CIOs and CTOs to stay budget-conscious amid the uncertain market. This article presents three budget-focused cases that we believe will be relevant to modernization strategies in 2023 and beyond based on our experience. seconds, a 76% improvement over the legacy solution.

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Datavail

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Layoffs and budget cuts abound. Up to 80% of a CIO’s budget can be spent maintaining legacy systems, according to some estimates. When your monolithic applications are re-architected, re-platformed, and refactored, you open up the ability to build and scale with modern tools such as: Hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

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Datavail

AUGUST 5, 2020

The agile software development methodology has surged in popularity in recent years—and for good reason. More than 40 percent of companies say that they’re now using agile with their development and IT operations teams. But the agile methodology, like any way to develop software, isn’t perfect.

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Planbox

MARCH 21, 2023

Wilmington, Delaware — Planbox, the pioneering agile innovation management platform, has been recognized as a Representative Vendor in the 2023 Gartner Market Guide for Innovation Management Tools for the sixth consecutive time in a row. Planbox is recognized in this report for the sixth consecutive time.

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RapidValue

AUGUST 12, 2020

In our previous blog , we had discussed the key Agile metrics that businesses use to optimize their product development processes. Taking the topic further, in this blog post, we are going to delve into the benefits of agile methodology that have helped it gain traction in the world of software development.

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2023

As technology projects, budgets, and staffing grew over the past few years, the focus was on speed to market to maximize opportunity, says Troy Gibson, CIO services leader at business and IT advisory firm Centric Consulting. level talent while embracing the latest data mining, data analysis, and analytical tools.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Luckily, many are expanding budgets to do so. “94% Productivity improvements will likely come from experimenting with the platforms and tools that embed prompting and other natural language capabilities, while longer-term impacts will come from embedding the company’s intellectual property into privately managed large language models.

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CIO

DECEMBER 22, 2023

To tackle that, businesses are turning their budgets toward the cloud, with two out of every three IT decision-makers planning to increase cloud budgets in 2024, and nearly a third (31%) reporting that 31% of their IT budget is earmarked for cloud computing, according to the 2023 Cloud Computing Study from CIO.com parent company Foundry.

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Datavail

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In 2001, a group of expert software developers created the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. That document started a movement in the software development world and many teams now use the Agile software development approach. What is Agile Software Development? The Agile Manifesto provides the basis for that definition.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Digital transformation is expected to be the top strategic priority for businesses of all sizes and industries, yet organisations find the transformation journey challenging due to digital skill gap, tight budget, or technology resource shortages. Amidst these challenges, organisations turn to low-code to remain competitive and agile.

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Codegiant

APRIL 3, 2020

Yet, without a powerful agile project management software, you’ll have hard times getting your teammates on the same page. In this lengthy article, you’ll discover the top 30 agile project management tools to help you manage your projects effectively and increase your team performance swiftly. How can ClickUp do that?

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QSM

JULY 11, 2022

In agile development, it's not unusual for software teams to have a fixed schedule or budget before any work begins. With a top-down estimation tool like QSM's SLIM-Estimate , your scrum teams can quickly determine how much functionality they can deliver in a planned release schedule. Video Agile Estimation.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Buying and implementing technology solutions takes time, so the CIO’s easiest tool to combat shadow IT is providing stakeholders the confidence that collaboration is in their best interest. There may be times when department-specific data needs and tools are required.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

To keep ahead of cybercriminals, organizations must remain agile, pivoting to embrace new strategies and technologies whenever necessary in order to outrun attacks. This is the time when many CFOs trawl through every line item in the budget, looking for potential savings. 1 That’s a number no CFO would want to ignore.

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Xebia

JANUARY 15, 2024

We can tell you about the many techniques, tools and approaches for dealing with the complexity and getting your portfoliomanagement under control. Often, portfolio management also includes the allocation of human resources and budget, or making architecture and sourcing decisions. Portfolio management is complex.

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Trigent

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, automation is becoming a critical tool for organizations looking to remain agile. Finally, you will better understand why intelligent automation is the key to unlocking business efficiency and agility. Table of Contents Let’s unravel what Hyperautomation is!

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