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IT leaders adjust budget priorities as economic outlook shifts

CIO Business Intelligence

Budget planning during uncertain economic times is never CIOs’ favorite activity. For the most part, budgets are holding steady or growing in the single digits, with continued investments in security, analytics, and the cloud, among other areas. But the next eighteen months aren’t shaping up to be as challenging as some may fear.

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Scrumfall: When Agile becomes Waterfall by another name

CIO Business Intelligence

The Church of Agile is being corrupted from within by institutional forces that have refused or been unable to adapt to the radical humanity embodied in its collaborative, self-organizing, cross-functional teams. Agile wasn’t supposed to be this way. The broken promise of Agile. A sham of true Scrum.

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Focus on cost and agility to ensure your cloud migration success

CIO Business Intelligence

When businesses migrate to public cloud, they expect to enjoy greater agility, resiliency, scalability, security, and cost-efficiency. Too often, impetuosity and a diminished focus on key business drivers can result in a loss of direction, reports Chris DePerro, SVP, Global Professional Services at NTT.

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How to Craft a Cloud Experience Without Busting the IT Budget

CIO Business Intelligence

Investing in IT without busting the budget is no mean feat, for even the most well-heeled organizations. As has been widely reported , the public cloud can also cost more than originally anticipated on a long enough timeline—and produce execution pitfalls and unwelcome regulatory surprises.

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Focus on cost and agility to ensure your cloud migration success

CIO Business Intelligence

When businesses migrate to public cloud, they expect to enjoy greater agility, resiliency, scalability, security, and cost-efficiency. Too often, impetuosity and a diminished focus on key business drivers can result in a loss of direction, reports Chris DePerro, SVP, Global Professional Services at NTT.

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How to get your CFO to buy into a better model for IT funding

CIO Business Intelligence

Modern digital organisations tend to use an agile approach to delivery, with cross-functional teams, product-based operating models , and persistent funding. But to deliver transformative initiatives, CIOs need to embrace the agile, product-based approach, and that means convincing the CFO to switch to a persistent funding model.

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Software project management challenges — and how to handle them

CIO Business Intelligence

Delivering on time and on budget Completing software projects in a timely manner while staying within budget is a long-time challenge of software development. One possible solution is to embrace the agile methodology of software development. Any number of things can happen to cause delays and drive up costs.