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Mending the rift between business stakeholders and development teams

Xebia

Introduction How often can your organization boast about getting a steady and predictable flow of productivity? In today’s business world, the synergy between stakeholders, product management and development teams are paramount.

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

CIO

Despite the best of intentions, CIOs and their organizations often struggle to deliver business outcomes from digital transformation strategies. 1 reason digital transformations fail is that executives fail to recognize that digital initiatives are bottom-up transformations that require change across the organization.

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How to hire the right product manager for your IT needs

CIO

IT organizations are increasingly shifting from project-based organizational structures to product-based methodologies , which involve cross-functional teams. Product managers aren’t a new job category by any means, but this shift means that they’re newly prominent and important to many companies’ strategies.

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

It laid out various ways for infiltrators to ruin productivity of a company. Some of the advice is timeless, for instance the section about “General interference with Organizations and Production”: Insist on doing everything through “channels” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.

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9 tips for achieving IT service delivery excellence

CIO

IT service delivery enables an organization to give end users access to essential IT services by designing, developing, and deploying key technology resources, including applications and data. But is your organization doing all it can to ensure service delivery excellence? The following nine tips will help get your there.

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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

CIO

Business leaders expect IT to develop new products, improve customer experiences, automate workflows, and deliver new artificial intelligence capabilities. Many IT teams use agile methodologies to iteratively deliver feature-rich releases, improve capabilities, address technical debt, and experiment with emerging technologies.

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J&J’s Jim Swanson brings mission-driven leadership to the CIO role

CIO

He started out as a scientist, working his way up the research and development ranks in the pharmaceutical industry, an experience steeped in curiosity that has helped shape his emphasis on continuous learning to this day. I believe in humble servant leadership — I’m here to support my teams,” he says.