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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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Bliki: ConwaysLaw

Martin Fowler

Pretty much all the practitioners I favor in Software Architecture are deeply suspicious of any kind of general law in the field. Good software architecture is very context-specific, analyzing trade-offs that resolve differently across a wide range of environments. We often see how inattention to the law can twist system architectures.

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Architecture Modernization Enabling Teams (AMET)

Strategic Tech

FThis article describes a pattern we have observed and applied in multi-team-scope architecture modernization initiatives, the Architecture Modernization Enabling Team (AMET). An AMET is a type of architecture enabling team that coordinates and upskills all teams and stakeholders in the modernization initiative.

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10 most difficult-to-fill IT roles — and how to address the gap

CIO

The CIO’s biggest hiring challenge is clear: “There is simply not enough talent to go around,” says Scott duFour, global CIO of business payments company Fleetcor, for whom positions in areas such as AI, cloud architecture, and data science remain the toughest to fill. The net result? S&P Global, for example, is entering its AI 2.0

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision. Blame it on “security” or “compliance” Make sure every task is tracked in a task tracker and has been reviewed, prioritized, and signed off by a group of at least five people.

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Global Software Architecture Summit 2022 Recap

Apiumhub

On October 3-4 we organized and hosted the Global Software Architecture Summit in Barcelona. This year the event was focused on Software Architecture Metrics as they are key to the maintainability and architectural quality of a software project. Attendees Profiles.

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SAFe certification: launch your Scaled Agile Framework career

CIO

Numerous SAFe certifications are on offer, grouped at the foundational, intermediate, and advanced levels. The 45-question exam tests candidates’ ability to realize the benefits of SAFe, including: How to establish team and technical agility and organize around value flow. Each is targeted for a specific role.

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