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4 Reasons to Outsource Large IT Projects During Economic Headwinds

CIO

The right partner can bring a team of highly skilled engineers together in a matter of days or weeks, allowing you to accelerate development and deliver your key projects in a timely fashion. Key talent can be added and removed from projects as needed. Enable your team to innovate more and wait for code less.

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Agile Transformation mistakes you must avoid at any cost!

Evolution4all

Typically, organizations are designed using the old-fashioned matrix model that is completely outdated when you want to design a product organization (in most of the cases in today’s world). Solution In today’s society, companies cannot afford to be working with yearly goals, they must be able to adapt to the market much faster.

Agile 130
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What is SAFe? A framework for scaling business agility

CIO

This accelerated feedback loop leads to higher engagement levels, increased productivity and job satisfaction, and improved work quality, as well as deliverables that reach the market faster. At the Team Level, an organization may have a number of teams working in an agile fashion toward a particular goal or solution.

Agile 284
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Bringing an AI Product to Market

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

If you’re an AI product manager (or about to become one), that’s what you’re signing up for. In this article, we turn our attention to the process itself: how do you bring a product to market? For example, an AI product that helps a clothing manufacturer understand which materials to buy will become stale as fashions change.

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Observations From Making the Move From Jira to Azure DevOps: Key Differences, Pros and Cons

Perficient

I have “gone to the dark side” of project management platforms by dipping my toes in the Azure DevOps pool (spoiler alert, come on in! And while these two platforms can even be integrated with one another in some cases, who doesn’t love a good old fashioned product comparison from a not at all biased standpoint.

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A Bit About the HP3000

The Daily WTF

HP didn't really know what they had bought- they marketed it as a "test and instrumentation" system, and were surprised when businesses purchased it for back office operations. The project was killed in 1970, which threw some of the staff into "wear black armbands to work" levels of mourning.

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Blockchain: The Secret Sauce to Supply Chain Visibility 

Perficient

While a customer receiving a pizza made cold by a lagging delivery driver may be an insignificant issue to the average person, imagine you’re a construction manager paying union wages for a full crew while you await the arrival of cement trucks. You need the cement in a timely fashion because every minute is money.