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Scrum master certification: Top 13 certs for agile pros

CIO

The agile methodology, which facilitates collaboration between stakeholders, teams, and customers during software development, is fast gaining prominence in today’s enterprises. The Scrum master leads this process, providing guidance to the team and product owner and ensuring agile practices are followed by team members.

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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

CIO

To do so, CIOs must continuously improve their product management, program management, and delivery capabilities to wow customers and deliver competitive advantages, all while steering clear of surefire DX mistakes such as prioritizing too many initiatives and underinvesting in developing digital trailblazers.

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Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

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Paring down agile Another change the digital organization has gone through recently is to start backing away from a pure agile approach. Volvo Cars’ digital department started to work agilely according to the SAFe Framework in a product-oriented model in 2018. But even with great advantages came disadvantages.

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Project management: Tips, tools, best practices

CIO

There are many, often overlapping approaches to managing projects, the most popular of which are waterfall, agile, hybrid, critical path method, and critical chain project management , among others. increased agility when adapting to other initiatives or changes within an organization. CSM: Certified Scrum Master.

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3 key roles for driving digital success

CIO

To help close this digital maturity gap and drive digital transformation as a core competency, CIOs and their leadership colleagues must establish and enlist digital transformation leaders across the enterprise. Product leaders are most responsible for a digital transformation initiative’s scope, priorities, and change management.

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To Improve Business Agility, Organizations Need to Focus on Value

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While business agility and efficiency is still a critical goal of most organizations, many are hamstrung by legacy organizational structure and management practices. So how can organizations continue to evolve and deliver better agility and efficiency? How do we ensure that the agile community continues to improve and thrive?

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7 sins of digital transformation

CIO

By focusing on technology, CIOs can deliver transitionary results, such as improving infrastructure agility by migrating to the cloud or improving user experiences by upgrading legacy systems to SaaS. There’s too much at stake for CIOs to limit learning programs to skill development and to leave leadership development for CHROs to oversee.