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Agile doesn’t create future-proof organizations

Xebia

Authors Riët Broekhuizen and Ellen Barree A fourth industrial revolution is happening, challenging organizations to implement radical change. The fusion and exponential growth of technologies that allow man and machine to "merge" will impact society, organizations, and people in ways we can barely imagine.

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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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How to make your developer organization more efficient

CIO

Developers are hired for their coding skills, but often spend too much time on information-finding, setup tasks, and manual processes. To combat wasted time and effort, Discover® Financial Services championed a few initiatives to help developers get back to what they do best: developing. The result?

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What is agile methodology? Modern software development explained

InfoWorld

It’s hard to believe that the agile software development methodology officially turned 20 years old last year. What once was an outlying practice for startups collaborating in colocated spaces with stickies and whiteboards is now a sophisticated, scalable, and widely used set of agile software development processes and tools.

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The Next-Generation Cloud Data Lake: An Open, No-Copy Data Architecture

In an effort to be data-driven, many organizations are looking to democratize data. Why agile development concepts, when applied to the data tier, can dramatically increase data engineering agility. How to separate compute and data by preserving data in open file and table formats.

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What is SAFe? A framework for scaling business agility

CIO

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) explained The Scaled Agile Framework encompasses a set of principles, processes, and best practices that helps larger organizations adopt agile methodologies , such as Lean, Kanban, and Scrum , to deliver high-quality products and services faster.

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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. How these sweeping transformations affect the digital organization stem from major changes to the system landscape in all areas of operation.

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Unlocking Agile's Missed Potential!

Speaker: Bob Webber, VP Product Flow Optimization, Construx

Many organizations feel that Agile has not delivered on its promises. Agile won’t achieve its potential without a better model that facilitates collaboration among product management and engineering teams. Agile doesn’t need to change. Meet business expectations of agility, predictability, and value with Agile.

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Digital Workplace Experience Conference: Resilience & Agility in Disruptive Times

Speaker: Conference Speakers

Acquire the strategies, tactics, and technologies to build and sustain a more resilient organization and maximize your workforce. Forward-looking organizations take the challenges of today and turn them into the competitive advantages of the future. Learning Tech for Developing Employee Skills and Capabilities. Save your spot!

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Building Like Amazon

Speaker: Leo Zhadanovsky, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Amazon's journey to its current modern architecture and processes provides insights for all software development leaders. To get there, Amazon focused on decomposing for agility, making critical cultural and operational changes, and creating tools for software delivery. Keys to automation at different stages of organization maturity.

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Partner Webinar: A Framework for Building Data Mesh Architecture

Speaker: Jeremiah Morrow, Nicolò Bidotti, and Achille Barbieri

Data teams in large enterprise organizations are facing greater demand for data to satisfy a wide range of analytic use cases. In this session, you will learn: How the silos development led to challenges with data growth, data quality, data sharing, and data governance (an example of datamesh paradigm adoption).

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Monitoring AWS Container Environments at Scale

Particularly well-suited for microservice-oriented architectures and agile workflows, containers help organizations improve developer efficiency, feature velocity, and optimization of resources. Containers power many of the applications we use every day.

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Data-Driven Performance Feedback Helps Teams Improve Customer Outcomes

Speaker: Mickey Mantle, Founder and CEO at Wanderful Interactive Storybooks | Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Author, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.

In order to be successful at delivering software, organizations need to become data-driven. And in the era of agile, which recognizes that software development is a team sport, performance reviews need to use data for programmer growth and to give focus to business results.