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Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

CIO

How these sweeping transformations affect the digital organization stem from major changes to the system landscape in all areas of operation. Altehed also says that Volvo’s systems span five decades, starting with mainframe environments from the 1970s and into modern technologies and tools recently launched.

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What is SAFe? A framework for scaling business agility

CIO

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) explained The Scaled Agile Framework encompasses a set of principles, processes, and best practices that helps larger organizations adopt agile methodologies , such as Lean, Kanban, and Scrum , to deliver high-quality products and services faster.

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Agility Meets SAP

Xebia

In this era of digital transformation, companies face the challenge of quickly adapting to changing market requirements while implementing complex enterprise solutions like SAP (Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing). However, this agile transformation in SAP projects presents both opportunities and challenges.

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Agile Book Club: System Architecture

James Shore

But what about the components that make up a deployed system? Those components and interactions form your system architecture. Evolutionary System Architecture. ?? Discussion prompts: How have you seen teams approach designing system architecture? For more about the book, visit the Art of Agile Development home page.

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Resilient Machine Learning with MLOps

As a result, many organizations are seeking new ways to overcome challenges — to be agile and rapidly respond to constant change. To prevent deployment delays and deliver resilient, accountable, and trusted AI systems, many organizations invest in MLOps to monitor and manage models while ensuring appropriate governance.

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Optimize your organizational structure for agility

Agile Alliance

For an organization “being agile” instead of “doing agile”, it is crucial to apply organizational design thinking and systems modelling to optimize the whole organization for agility and provide the surrounding conditions for the teams’ collaboration.

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The Ultimate Model for Managing Performance in Agile Environments

Xebia

Agile practitioners often refer to the four quadrants that make up the culture of autonomy and alignment. Depicted in figure 1, from Spotify, the general idea is that you would want to be in the top right-hand corner in an Agile environment. Balancing these factors is critical to good performance in Agile organizations.

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Cloud-Based Solutions: The Sky Is the Limit for Retail Success

Speaker: Ryan Bryers, SVP of Global Engineering

In a rapidly evolving industry, the shift from traditional on-premise systems to cloud-based solutions has become crucial for retail success. It's about unlocking unparalleled flexibility and driving business agility. Save your seat today! July 26th, 2023 at 9:30am PDT, 12:30pm EDT, 5:30pm BST

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Monitoring AWS Container Environments at Scale

Particularly well-suited for microservice-oriented architectures and agile workflows, containers help organizations improve developer efficiency, feature velocity, and optimization of resources. Key metrics to monitor when leveraging two container orchestration systems. Containers power many of the applications we use every day.