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Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

CIO Business Intelligence

The balance between software and hardware in cars is also changing dramatically since software is increasingly developed internally and built into the cars. The result, for example, is no more roles such as scrum master and release train engineer, while project managers and program managers have returned. “So

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5 key mistakes IT leaders make at board meetings

CIO Business Intelligence

They assume their board lacks technical expertise In 2019, MIT reported that only 24% of US boards of companies with over $1 billion in revenue were digitally savvy. So too is the case for many IT leaders I speak with. With that in mind, here are five common mistakes IT leaders make when participating in board meetings.

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Broadcom Software Return to Face-to-Face Customer Engagements

CIO Business Intelligence

By Tom Thorpe, Vice President International Markets, Broadcom Software. It’s been great to see people returning to face-to-face meetings in recent months – for us at Broadcom Software, a little more than most. Talk about timing: just as we completed the acquisition of Symantec in November 2019, a global pandemic hit.

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6 smart practices for better business-IT alignment

CIO Business Intelligence

This approach has been very successful at project-based software maker Deltek, according to Prithvi Mulchandani, vice president of IT business applications. “We That person is now a Scrum master at a major insurance company. So far, about 1,000 Liberty Mutual executives have taken the program since it began in 2019.

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Team Leadership in the Age of Agile

Speaker: Roy Osherove, Technology and Leadership Consultant

As a senior software leader, you spend much of your time trying to optimize your team's performance – from increasing delivery rate and velocity to reducing defect rates and waste. To do this, you've learned a wide variety of techniques and methodologies - SCRUM, Kanban, TDD, DevOps, self-organized teams, and much more. PM PST, 3.30