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5 surefire ways to derail a digital transformation (without knowing it)

CIO

Despite the best of intentions, CIOs and their organizations often struggle to deliver business outcomes from digital transformation strategies. And while KPMG reports that 72% of CEOs have aggressive digital investment strategies, McKinsey details a harsh reality that 70% of transformations fail. Five years ago, I shared that the No.

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The Nightmare of Hiring a Great Product Owner

Evolution4all

Many Heads of Product, Product Managers, and Chief Product Officers are interested in hiring people with some specific skills in the job market that is extremely difficult to find. Nonetheless, many of these Product Owners do not need management skills as a result of how their companies are organised.

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Delivering Continuous Value: Lessons Learned About Software Delivery In Our First 20 Years

Gorilla Logic

We always coach our teams and clients, helping them on their Agile journey to becoming self-managed and high-performing teams.” —Alice Zárate, Lead Scrum Master. “ Arianna Reyes, Delivery Manager and Agile Coach. “To Gaby Zúñiga, Delivery Manager. The most important word is ‘team.’

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Tech Company Culture: The iTexican Way

iTexico

We also support career paths alongside delivery management and organize recreational activities, whether remote or face-to-face, so there’s a healthy life-work balance.". Q: Why do you consider it important for IT companies to draft a serious talent management strategy?

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The Nightmare of Hiring a Great Product Owner

Luis Goncalves

Many Heads of Product, Product Managers, and Chief Product Officers are interested in hiring people with some specific skills in the job market that is extremely difficult to find. Nonetheless, many of these Product Owners do not need management skills as a result of how their companies are organised.

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Competency Lost

The Agile Manager

Less senior BAs became Product Managers, while those Project Managers who did not become part of the Product organization were either staffed outside of IT or coached out of the accompany. Delivery management was devolved, with teams given the freedom to choose their own product and requirements management practices and tools.

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Kanban vs Scrum?—?Every Difference Your Team Needs To Know [2020]

Codegiant

an Agile coach. Yet, you can meet the following roles in some teams: Service Delivery Manager Service Request Manager The Service Delivery Manager is pretty similar to the scrum master. He also strives to facilitate the work process and ramp up kanban software delivery. Strategy Review?—?this

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