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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

CIO

Agile can help build trust between teams, stakeholders, and leadership, but agile cannot correct a lack of trust between people. Your agile principles are too vaguely defined Beyond the tension between leadership and teams, there is often a secondary tension across and within agile teams.

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

CIO

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.” Digital Transformation, IT Leadership, Project Management Tools

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

CIO

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. Instead of initiatives telling a cohesive story, it leaves results open to interpretation and challenges.

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Scrum master certification: Top 13 certs for agile pros

CIO

A current Project Management Professional (PMP) or Program Management Professional (PgMP) cert will satisfy the requirement for 12 months of general project experience within the past five years, but neither are required. Cost : PSPO I: $200; PSPO II: $250; PSPO III: $500 Renewal : The PSPO-1 does not expire.

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Joel Soucy’s Roadmap To Creating A Seamless Employee Experience

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

What tools, resources, or metrics would you use to judge your team’s pulse? They help me, without naming names, approach leadership with issues that may need to be addressed. With experience in Customer Success, Sales, and Program Management, Joel pivoted into People Ops/HR.

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Top 7 Reasons Why Digital Transformation Fails

Mentormate

It is worth having a program manager familiar with Agile who can shield the team and provide the more traditional tracking and reporting expected. In contrast, the Agile team stays focused on using Scrum for managing the work. You need to set up your metrics at the beginning to measure your ultimate success or failure.

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The Top 13 Sessions From 2018 Ops and Dev Conferences

OverOps

Dr. Nicole Forsgren , Co-founder, CEO and Chief Scientist at DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA), shares insights into the key leadership, technical, architectural, and product capabilities that drive these outcomes, and how it can help us improve our own teams. Metrics, logging, monitoring, and reliability.