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Due diligence is ever more critical as the battle for cloud sovereignty intensifies

CIO

After Google’s cooperation with T-Systems and the “ Delos ” offer from Microsoft, SAP, and Arvato, AWS now follows suit. The pledge sounds excellent, but does it meet the minimum standards of most data sovereignty requirements worldwide? However, continued investment by customers in U.S. hyperscale cloud provider offerings.

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Agile, Stand-ups, TDD and Code Reviews

The Programmer's Paradox

These two things tend to make agile an excellent fit for startups and an impossibly bad fit for large projects in large organizations. But since it is now a group effort, they tried to keep it time constrained by having everyone stand up during the meeting, in the hopes that people’s feet will tire out. Most releases are just demos.

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What is SAFe? A framework for scaling business agility

CIO

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) explained The Scaled Agile Framework encompasses a set of principles, processes, and best practices that helps larger organizations adopt agile methodologies , such as Lean, Kanban, and Scrum , to deliver high-quality products and services faster. Apply systems thinking into all facets of development.

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

CIO

Due to its less formal and more flexible processes, agile may not always be easily absorbed within larger more traditional organizations where there are significant amounts of rigidity or flexibility within processes, policies, or teams. Face-to-face meetings are deemed the most efficient and effective format for project success.

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6 signs it’s time to restructure your IT organization

CIO

Yet, as any IT leader knows, when technical infrastructure fails to meet enterprise needs, hampering productivity and innovation, it’s often time to rebuild from scratch. Restructuring can create uncertainty and stress in an organization, and it shouldn’t be used lightly or regularly, Sinclair explains.

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Calculating The Cost of Software Quality in Your Organization

OverOps

Meeting the customer’s expectations at a high degree of conformance is no longer expected to come at a premium – it is just expected. We now turn our attention to what you, as a leader in your organization, can do about it. The cost of good software quality is as variable as the organizations I have encountered.

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Digital transformation’s fundamental change management mistake

CIO

Martin Davis, CIO and managing partner at Dunelm Associates, says not to declare success too early : “Too many projects prematurely declare success at the point of process or system implementation and fail to recognize that change management efforts must continue for some time after implementation to realize the full value.”