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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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The ‘IT Business Office’: Doing IT’s admin work right

CIO

Among the unenlightened, running IT “like a business” is supposed to be best practice, delivering goods and services to internal customers who IT must fully satisfy, and who then pay for what IT delivers to them through the auspices of a charge-back system. Just formulating them well takes a lot of effort. Monitoring a vendor’s compliance?

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Athenian gives you metrics about your engineering team without focusing on individuals

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When you start using the product, you first connect it to various data sources, such as GitHub, Jira and your CI/CD system. After that, you get “a true graph of all the events that are happening in the organization from the planning work to feedback from customers,” Kant told me. Image Credits: Athenian.

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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.”

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Subscript wants to rid the world of subscription revenue metric spreadsheets

TechCrunch

Targeting subscription-based SaaS companies, Subscript develops APIs that grab data from CRMs, general ledgers and billing products and organizes it so the data is not only easy to find, but provides up-to-date subscription revenue metrics. The finance person will have the final say on what they are seeing.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. For example, organizations may commit to containers that are too large, or reserve too much disk space.

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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.