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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

CIO

Business leaders expect IT to develop new products, improve customer experiences, automate workflows, and deliver new artificial intelligence capabilities. Many IT teams use agile methodologies to iteratively deliver feature-rich releases, improve capabilities, address technical debt, and experiment with emerging technologies.

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3 powerful lessons of using data governance frameworks

CIO

Managing data and using data should be considered a portfolio of actions,” says Thomas. When a good framework is defined, the CIO should be able to hand off tasks to different teams with full confidence not only that they’ll be performed accurately, but the outcome will contribute to achieving the overall goal.”

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Evaluating a Microservice Architecture

Tandem

Microservice architecture has been a hot topic in the realm of software development for a while now. However, like any technology, it has its strengths and weaknesses. This adaptability also enables teams to adopt a more agile approach to software development, allowing them to quickly respond to customer needs.

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Top 7 Reasons Why Digital Transformation Fails

Mentormate

We’ve discussed implementing digital transformation at an enterprise scale , the importance of design research , and how successful teams plan and execute ideas. At its foundation, digital transformation is a process of disruptive change that aims to introduce a reinventive force to the industry it occupies.

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What is ERP? Enterprise resource planning systems explained

CIO

The executive sponsor should also be advised by an organizational change management executive, as ERP implementations result in new business processes, roles, user interfaces, and job responsibilities. Reporting to the program’s executive team should be a business project manager and an IT project manager.

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Competency Lost

The Agile Manager

The captive corporate IT department was a relatively early adopter of Agile management practices, largely out of desperation. Years of expensive overshoots, canceled projects, and poor quality solutions gave IT not just a bad reputation, but a confrontational relationship with its host business.

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Autonomy Now

The Agile Manager

Distributed software development has been practiced for decades. Skilled labor, global communication networks and collaborative tools made "offshore development" possible at scale from the mid-1990s onward. Consider a distributed Agile program consisting of multiple teams based in different countries around the world.