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How to build a successful agile development culture – and why your business needs one

CIO

To keep pace with the growing complexity of software development, organizations have spent years working to implement agile practices into their developer experience. But many organizations are still struggling to achieve agility and state that progress is still slow and projects are stalled.

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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

CIO

Many IT teams use agile methodologies to iteratively deliver feature-rich releases, improve capabilities, address technical debt, and experiment with emerging technologies. I recently moderated Adaptavist’s “Agile Back to Basics” roundtable, which included three authors of the Agile Manifesto.

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Cross-Functional Teams in Product Development: Definition, Principles and Examples

Altexsoft

Functional teams vs cross-functional teams Functional teams are composed of individuals with similar skills and professional expertise. This type of team is typically organized within a single department inside an organization. The example would be a marketing team, an accounting team, a developers’ team, etc.

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Top 15 project management certifications

CIO

Offered by the PMI, the Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) certification is designed to validate your knowledge of agile principles and skills with agile techniques. Business value-oriented principles (BVOP ) is an agile-based framework that has grown in popularity in the UK. Top project management certifications.

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Industrial and agile: How to be both?

Capgemini

Six recommendations for building a distributed Agile model. There is a common myth that Agile teams can only be efficient if all (100%) members are onsite and in-house. But according to the Annual State of Agile Report [1], 78% of organizations practice Agile with distributed team members.

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Scrum by Example – Stories for the Working ScrumMaster

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Scrum by Example is meant to empower readers to become excellent in their practice of Scrum. Scrum by Example is written as an episodic story, with a small cast of characters and a simple fictional product. Steve – The “protagonist” of Scrum by Example. Doing a Google search today, it doesn’t seem like a whole lot has changed.

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CIOs in transition: 5 tips for landing your next IT leadership job

CIO

While those are examples, there are other networking practices IT leaders can engage in more consistently through online communities and social media. These are examples of soft skills that IT leaders assimilate through experience but rarely have the time to study and develop intentionally while busy on the job.