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Agile, DevOps, and COVID-19

Forrester IT

We talk about Agile and DevOps, of course, but also extend into related areas like portfolio management and security. Every other Friday, we have a meeting of the “DevOps Theme Team,” a group of Forrester analysts focused on next generation IT management approaches.

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Strategic Design Is Finally Recognized In Agile Frameworks

Forrester IT

Designers joining Agile teams often complain about feeling like misfits. The importance of good design is mentioned in Agile principles, but designers are nowhere in the picture. The only individuals that Agile principles mention are business people and developers.

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A Faster Pace of Innovation Demands More Agile Ways to Bring Products to Market

Forrester IT

Learn how organizations can become more strategic, aligned and agile when bringing offerings to market with the new version of the PMM Model.

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Update Your Knowledge Management Practice With Three Agile Principles

Forrester IT

Agile principles transform knowledge management within the enterprise from lengthy, delay-laden processes to lean practices that seek to make sharing knowledge easy and adaptable. For the same reasons that agile principles have […].

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Business Agile: A Roadmap for Transforming Your Management & Adapting to the VUCA Environment

Speaker: Peter Taylor, Speaker/Author, The Lazy Project Manager

Business agile is an approach that gives the right business flexibility and fast decision-making in a volatile environment, providing a great capacity for innovation, adaptation and change. Businesses everywhere are trying to “get business agile”—but it’s not easy to adapt to becoming this adaptive.

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Should product managers and innovative agile teams measure business value?

Social, Agile and Transformation

How to measure business value is a question many agile teams ask me, given how much rigor I ask them to put into estimating and capturing story points.

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A Comparison Of Agile And ITSM Change Management Mindsets

Forrester IT

Let’s Compare Agile And ITSM Thinking We all know that pushing every change – no matter how big or how small – through a change management process is not only bureaucratic but also introduces delays that most development teams can neither afford nor tolerate.

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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.

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Partner Webinar: A Framework for Building Data Mesh Architecture

Speaker: Jeremiah Morrow, Nicolò Bidotti, and Achille Barbieri

In this webinar, learn how Enel Group worked with Agile Lab to implement Dremio as a data mesh solution for providing broad access to a unified view of their data, and how they use that architecture to enable a multitude of use cases. Leveraging Dremio for data governance and multi-cloud with Arrow Flight.

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The Next-Generation Cloud Data Lake: An Open, No-Copy Data Architecture

Why agile development concepts, when applied to the data tier, can dramatically increase data engineering agility. Read this whitepaper to learn: How this “no data copy” approach dramatically streamlines data workflows while reducing security and governance overhead.

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How a Global CPG Leader Optimized $500M of Direct Materials Spend and Exceeded Savings Goal

GEP’s sourcing expertise and market intelligence enabled the company to centralize sourcing and order management processes, strengthen key supplier relationships, and enhance supply chain resilience and agility. The result was a year-over-year savings of more than 3%.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

2024 GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report — explores the biggest technological trends in procurement and supply chain, from generative AI and the advancement of low-code development tools to the data management and analytics applications that unlock agility, cost efficiency, and informed decision-making.

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How Can We Stop Under Utilizing a Key User Experience Champion?

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

Join Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant as he discusses how we can educate and equip our QA/QC process to forge champions of customer experience. Despite this, those building the product itself are often detached from their customers, leading to a gap between vision and execution on the most practical metrics.

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Retail Reimagined: What It Means To Be An Innovative Retailer

Speaker: DeAnna McIntosh, Retail Growth Strategist

Companies of all sizes were forced to welcome change with open arms and surrender to total flexibility in order to be agile in the ever-evolving economic environment. The past three years have forever changed the retail landscape.

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The 3 Principles that Lead to Better Collaboration Between Design and Product Management Teams

Speaker: Felix Watson Jr., Product Manager at Google, and Terrell Cobb, Designer at Microsoft

As more product teams adopt agile working styles, poor collaboration between Design and Product Management can harm a team’s ability to create consumer and business value.