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8 ways IT can help supercharge your sales team

CIO

Form a strong partnership Forming an effective IT-sales partnership requires embracing a startup mentality, even at large, long-established organizations, advises Amit Vashisht, assistant vice president at retirement services firm Jackson Enterprise Technology. Yet he also advises proceeding with caution.

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13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation

CIO

This underlines the need for organizations to embrace change and adopt a more agile and forward-thinking approach to digital transformation skills in order to overcome challenges and achieve digital transformation,” says Monika Sinha, research vice president in Gartner’s CIO Research group. And that is the rub.

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Perspectives on how cloud computing & app development trends will take shape in 2023

CIO

As Kubernetes is becoming more mature, and the ecosystem around it as well is stabilizing, I believe that the challenges we are experiencing around knowledge gaps, and technical difficulties are going to get smaller over the next few years. This huge step in company culture requires brave managers adopting agile principles.

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5 forces shaping the future IT workforce

CIO

The increasing impact of political and social issues on retention and hiring. Some 70% of employees expect their employer to take a stance on social and political events going on in the world, according to a Gartner survey. So by not saying anything you alienate everybody. The company as an internal marketplace for skills.

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The CIO’s call to action on gen AI

CIO

Palmer is one of the world’s top AI experts and a longtime industry veteran who is educating and advising companies on how to approach and harness this new technology. Anna Ransley, a CD&IO known for her work at Godiva and Heineken, among others, has been advising boards and C-suites about generative AI strategy, risks, and opportunities.

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Women in Agile: Compassion at Work

Accenture

April Wensel, the founder of Compassionate Coding , spoke to a sold-out room gathered to hear her keynote speech at the Women in Agile event at the Agile2018 conference in San Diego. Similarly, compassion is not politeness, sometimes you have to go against a lot of social norms in order to say what needs to be said.”.

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35 Fleshed-Out Scrum Master Interview Questions and Answers [2020]

Codegiant

Big credits to Stefan Wolper , an agile coach, and his ebook about Scrum Masters. Without further ado: Scrum Master Role & Responsibilities (Overview) It’s the Scrum Master’s responsibility to bring the development team on the same page by teaching them all the values and principles that fundamentally shape Scrum and, respectively, Agile.

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