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

CIO

Here’s how I spot derailments: Ask initiative leaders to share access to their roadmaps, agile backlogs, collaboration tools, stakeholder communications, and internal documentation. But are product managers developing market- and customer-driven roadmaps and prioritized backlogs?

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Agile and Project Management are still uncomfortable bedfellows

The CTO Group

Renai LeMay is CTO Group’s Advisory Delivery Manager. He is certified across Project Management, IT Service Management and Agile methodologies. Where does the new breed of Agile methodologies fit in with a traditional Project Management approach? These are far from academic questions.

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If there was ever a good time to be sure you have good governance, this is it

The Agile Manager

For purposes of ceremony, IT governance is heavy-handed in reporting, but light touch in execution, loaded as it typically is with vendor reps with sales revenue on the line, delivery managers with bonuses on the line and business sponsors with promotions on the line. Strengthen the cost audit function.

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Competency Lost

The Agile Manager

The captive corporate IT department was a relatively early adopter of Agile management practices, largely out of desperation. Less senior BAs became Product Managers, while those Project Managers who did not become part of the Product organization were either staffed outside of IT or coached out of the accompany.