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CIO Australia Webinar: Overcoming Barriers to Application Modernisation with SAP

CIO

That said, not all legacy is bad, with the onus on CIOs and other technology leaders to derive value from existing investments where possible. O’Driscoll and her team opted for the tighter deadline in a bid to reduce costs and ultimately deliver value faster. You know, there’s a lot of change management required there as well.

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Leadership Self Examination | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If you believe you possess a fully developed competency in a section give yourself 10 points. If you find that you lack skill sets and competencies in certain areas seek out mentors and coaches to shore-up your weaknesses, and more importantly, use your professional advisors to assist you in leveraging your strengths.

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Where Has All the Business Knowledge Gone?

The Agile Manager

It went unnoticed because their knowledge was captured in code, and the developers knew the code. Then the original developers disappeared, either because they aged out, got better opportunities with other firms (tech people tend to change jobs frequently), or got caught up in the offshoring thing in the early 2000s.

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Conflict, Part I

The Agile Manager

But the magic left the development team years ago: it had been gutted by several rounds of staff cuts that took the garrulous personalities and innovative thinkers. It took the wind from development's sails: those who were still on the payroll were just happy to have kept their jobs.