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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

CIO

Business leaders expect IT to develop new products, improve customer experiences, automate workflows, and deliver new artificial intelligence capabilities. Many IT teams use agile methodologies to iteratively deliver feature-rich releases, improve capabilities, address technical debt, and experiment with emerging technologies.

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8 tips for cultivating a winning IT culture

CIO

Long-term success is generally the result of leaders who make a committed effort to connect directly with their teams, rather than simply issuing memos, edicts, and other top-down commands. Are you looking to build a winning IT culture? Projects that really excite our teams.” Winning IT organizations aren’t built in a day.

Culture 355
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Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

CIO

As a result, many new car companies are created and competition increases, says Tobias Altehed, who leads Volvo Cars’ digital organization and sits on the company’s extended management team. We need to take greater responsibility for the development of our digital products and not act as an internal supplier to our business.”

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5 surefire ways to derail a digital transformation (without knowing it)

CIO

CIOs can’t be involved in every strategic discussion or dive into every initiative’s details, but there are several high-level signs that indicate a digital transformation may be destined to underperform, especially as CIOs add initiatives. But are product managers developing market- and customer-driven roadmaps and prioritized backlogs?

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Agile Book Club: Team Dynamics

James Shore

Team dynamics form the bedrock of Agile teams’ ability to develop and deliver software. They’re the invisible undercurrents that determine your team’s culture. In this session, Diana Larsen and Linda Rising help us explore the dynamics that make and break Agile teams. Team Dynamics. ??

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10 digital transformation roadblocks — and 5 tips for overcoming them

CIO

A study by McKinsey found that companies that prioritized cultural factors in digital transformations were four times more likely to succeed than those that focused on technology alone. Poor execution Even the best plans can fail if execution is poor. Digital transformation requires agility and flexibility.

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How Developer Observability is Transforming Dev Role

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

As we embrace the reliability, agility, and innovative potential of the multi-cloud environment, observability in DevOps grows more critical. Alongside streamlined processes and collaborative efficiency, DevOps teams need real-time access to detailed, correlative, context-rich data and analytics. Let’s get into it. Let’s get into it.