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Agile project management: Principles, benefits, tools, tips, and when to make the switch

CIO

Agile project management definition Agile project management is a methodology used primarily in software development that favors flexibility and collaboration, incorporating customer feedback throughout the project life cycle.

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Software project management challenges — and how to handle them

CIO

“Agile software development projects iterate the cycle of plan, do, check, adjust — and the end user or representative sponsoring [the project] is key in all these stages,” says Ola Chowning, a partner with global technology research and advisory firm ISG.

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What is SAFe? A framework for scaling business agility

CIO

Apply systems thinking into all facets of development. Assume market and technical variability by preserving choices and encouraging innovation. Base milestones on objective estimation and evaluation of working systems to ensure there is an economic benefit. Doing so requires sophisticated coordination of ARTs and value streams.

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10 digital transformation roadblocks — and 5 tips for overcoming them

CIO

In today’s fast-paced business world, companies are striving to harness the power of digital technologies to reinvent their operations, enhance customer experiences, drive innovation, and thereby create value for stakeholders. But the hard truth is that many digital initiatives fail to deliver results.

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4 ways upskilling and reskilling can fill hard-to-hire positions

CIO

Looking for existing staff with transferable skills, hidden skills, technical learnability, and hidden knowledge can bring these potential employees into focus. Within IT, this could mean finding workers to do programing, testing, cybersecurity, operations, project management, or other similar tasks.

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

Technology When joining, require a 6-18 months rewrite of core systems. Split systems along arbitrary boundaries: maximize the number of systems involved in any feature. Encourage technical decisions based on wildly optimistic expectations of scale. Encourage communal ownership of systems.

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AI adoption accelerates as enterprise PoCs show productivity gains

CIO

Everyone is running around trying to apply this technology that’s moving so fast, but without business outcomes, there’s no point to it,” says Redmond, CIO at power management systems manufacturer Eaton Corp. “We We need to continue to be mindful of business outcomes and apply use cases that make sense.”