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Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

CIO Business Intelligence

Paring down agile Another change the digital organization has gone through recently is to start backing away from a pure agile approach. Volvo Cars’ digital department started to work agilely according to the SAFe Framework in a product-oriented model in 2018. But even with great advantages came disadvantages.

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Best business analyst certifications to level up your career

CIO Business Intelligence

Through the program, you can opt to earn your CCBA certification as well as certifications in Agile Scrum Foundation, Digital Transformation for Leaders, Python for Data Science, and R Programming for Data Science. The course promises to make you an expert in Excel, CBAP, Tableau, Scrum, SQL, and CCBA.

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Lumentum CIO Ralph Loura on adopting a challenger mindset

CIO Business Intelligence

Loura joined Lumentum in October of 2018, bringing with him three decades of IT leadership experience. The company is a key player in the telecommunications industry, with annual revenues of $1.7 billion and 5,000 employees around the world. So, it was not working.

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Taking the Canadian Insurance Industry Digital

Cloud Musings

Another key component of this partnership was software development that used the KANBAN Agile Methodology. When compared to the well know SCRUM model, using KANBAN promoted continuous collaboration and encouraged active, ongoing learning and improvement by defining the best possible team workflow.

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Transforming IT for cloud success

CIO Business Intelligence

“Now all that [work] happens within an agile circle with iterative delivery, so the linear process has all been crushed together.” Here’s how he did it: Holden hired cloud architects , who brought cloud integration experience and training to the agile methodology Holden embraced. And he hired agile coaches to work with his IT team.

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