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7 tell-tale signs of fake agile

CIO

The same is not true, sadly, for many agile project management and development initiatives. Too often, an organization may launch something that looks like an agile program, calls itself an agile program, claims to operate like an agile program, yet really isn’t an agile program in the least.

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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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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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Insights from your JIRA data to help improve your team

Xebia

Many teams are using Atlassian’s JIRA as an issue tracker, which then becomes a valuable source of information for their daily operations. As a team leader utilizing JIRA, you probably have employed JIRA dashboards to monitor the status of work, usually in context of a (release) planning. Colors represent the status category.

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8 ways IT can help supercharge your sales team

CIO

Building sales requires a well-equipped sales team, and in today’s digital world, that means IT must become a strong support partner. Is your IT organization doing all it can to help sales team members build and retain customers? It requires a deep commitment to frequent, clear communication and coordination on mutual goals.

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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.

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Scrum by Example – How Sprint Planning Mistakes Can Derail a Team

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Sprint Planning is the most underappreciated Agile event. This resulting plan is created by the collaborative work of the entire Scrum Team.”. The Guide goes on to say that the team is expected to cover three topics: Why is the Sprint Valuable? We’ll use them as an example of a typical Scrum team.

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