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Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

CIO

Much of the system heritage comes from the time before Volvo Cars became independent from the Volvo Group. Paring down agile Another change the digital organization has gone through recently is to start backing away from a pure agile approach. But even with great advantages came disadvantages.

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Project management: Tips, tools, best practices

CIO

Procurement management: Close out all project procurements. Stakeholder expectations Stakeholders can be any person or group with a vested stake in the success of a project, program, or portfolio, including team members, functional groups, sponsors, vendors, and customers.

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How Value Stream Management is fueling success at Boeing, Tyson, and Verizon

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As you seek to boost agility and speed your organization’s digital transformation, there are some proven principles you can apply. By employing Value Stream Management (VSM), executives gain the visibility to align teams, workflows, and investments around one key aspect: customer value.

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Novanta’s Sarah Betadam on transforming the IT model status quo

CIO

Sarah Betadam, an experienced digital executive who, as presently the company’s CIO and CISO, is charged with delivering transformational solutions that scale operations and improve business agility, but she also helps drive business strategies and global objectives. Betadam: This is why agile is important for our entire organization.

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Book Review: Doing Agile Right – So It Doesn’t Die On The Vine

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Book Review: Doing Agile Right - So It Doesn't Die On The Vine. About how, in these times, it is more important than ever for leaders to be Agile. In that conversation, I shared with him some thoughts from Doing Agile Right , a new book co-authored by Darrell Rigby. by JJ Sutherland) | April 24th, 2020 | Blog. Really big.

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Transforming to an Agile Mindset, Part 3

Accenture

In Part One of this series, I wrote about how Agile represents not merely practices like Scrum and Kanban but is rather built on a foundational set of values. Now, in Part Three, we look at how behaviors support and reinforce Agile principles and values. Why is Microsoft even a member of this Agile Learning Consortium?

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Highlights from Gorilla Logic’s Scaled Agile Workshop

Gorilla Logic

Many companies are spending millions on digital transformation initiatives with the promise of gaining more agility, innovating faster and gleaning deeper insights from their customers and prospects. That was the question Gorilla Logic posed to an elite group of Agile experts during our first annual Scaled Agile Workshop.

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