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How Value Stream Management is fueling success at Boeing, Tyson, and Verizon

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“Before we adopted value stream management and our sophisticated processes, we actually had no idea what work was being done in each of our organizations,” Lynda Van Vleet, Boeing’s portfolio management systems product manager. The organization changed legacy approaches to product management and project investment.

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

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CIOs invest in skills development, and HR usually offers leadership development programs, but these approaches often don’t address the knowledge and skills needed to lead digital transformation initiatives. But there are common pitfalls , such as selecting the wrong KPIs , monitoring too many metrics, or not addressing poor data quality.

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What is a project management office (PMO)? The key to standardizing project success

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Debra Chin, a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and program manager/consultant with ROC Implementation & Management Group (ROCIMG), describes the PMO more succinctly, saying, “It’s a centralized point that helps manage projects.”

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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

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CIOs are under increasing pressure to deliver more digital innovations faster and more efficiently. Agile has to work within the context of the organization, whether it’s the process of financial reporting, estimation, or forecasting,” said Phil Heijkoop, general manager of Aligned Agility.

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Meet the ex-Amazon satellite engineers wanting to disrupt hardware workflow

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To work around this problem, teams will usually hire a system engineer or a technical program manager to manually maintain a source of truth between the different tools. The mission resulted in failure due to a navigation error — specifically, a failure of translating units from metric to Imperial. Let’s make it concrete.

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What is change management? A guide to organizational transformation

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The Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP) , PROSCI , the Innovation and Organizational Change Management Institute (IOCMI) , and others view change management from an organizational perspective. The OCM sponsor is supported by an OCM project manager who directs the day-to-day activities of the OCM team.

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IntelliDyne’s ITAC Published Top 10 Tech Trends In 2015 For Government Enterprise Infrastructure Management

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IntelliDyne’s ITAC is a thought leadership council focused on promoting innovation in Enterprise Infrastructure Management and technology solutions in government, comprised of IntelliDyne senior technologists and enterprise architects. By Katie Kennedy.