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Read more Categories: Agile. Agile Testing. Agile Agile Testing BizDevOps DevOps IT Infrastructure Robert Stroud automated deployment automated testing cloud cloud computing metricsIn the days of old, not very long ago, release cycles were measured in years --organizations were using "on-time" and "on-budget" as the mantra for project efficacy. Business today is compelled to deliver business technology in cycles of hours, or days. MORE
(A version of this Blog originally published on Auth0 Blogs ) Apps are becoming componentized and API-based to facilitate reuse and agility; Identity management cloud services will help. "In MORE
Agile teams can't wait till the end of a release to begin planning the next one. Furthermore, this approach to planning doesn't simplify drafting roadmaps and forecasts that many organizations require from their agile teams. And while there are many benefits from the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), its Program Increment (PI). The time gap it creates is a tremendous loss of productivity. MORE
Agile planning doesn't end when stories are written, accepted by the team, sized, and ready for development. Story writing is one aspect of agile planning, but it's not the only one. At StarCIO, agile planning is done at several levels depending on the complexity of the requirement. MORE
I take on the challenge of defining the role's strategic responsibilities and illustrating how product managers should best work with agile teams. agile planning organizational change product managementThe fourth episode of 5 Minutes with @NYIke covers the role of product management. Please note that the video focuses on Product Managers chartered with developing customer-facing applications and products. There's a very different way to think. MORE
Last week I moderated a panel at nGage's Enterprise Transformation Exchange on Developing an Agile IT Organization: Concepts, Culture and Concerns. CIOs and other IT leaders are looking to agile practices to transform operations, develop new products, about me agile planning agile software development cio digital transformation executive presentations future of work innovation it management organizational change software development MORE
We can call many processes "agile," and teams can claim that they are practicing scrum. Still, there are sizable steps going from following basic agile ceremonies to agile methodologies or cultures. Specifically, teams are not agile if all they are doing is. MORE
I’ve been writing about agility within the data center and IT group recently. While reading a white paper titled “ Agile IT Empowers Business Success ”, I ran across an intriguing sentence: “ If the business can’t adapt, it may not survive.“ In order to drive this adaptability, organization’s require both an agile business and an agile IT group , which is something I wrote a bit about last week. Information Technology The New CIO Agility CIO IT MORE
Similarly, the cloud has given organizations access to an almost limitless amount of processing and storage power with low costs, relatively high reliability and a great deal of agility. These companies have transformed (or are working to transform) their data centers from a monolithic, underutilized liability to an agile and valuable asset, but they’ve often failed to push agility as a core concept for IT professionals working within their IT groups. MORE
about me agile software development cio DevOps digital transformation enterprise 2.0 For the second year in a row, I share with you all the books that I read as part of my GoodReads challenge. MORE
Everyone, or at least almost everyone is doing some form of agile practices today. In fact, some leaders drive their digital transformation programs with leading agile to deliver customer facing applications. agile planning agile software development cio innovation it management leadership organizational change product management MORE
One of my favorite workshops that I do is called Agile for Stakeholders. Now there are books, frameworks, and tools to help agile product owners, scrum masters, and leads, including StarCIO Agile Planner, but there are limited resources for stakeholders. agile planning cio cmo digital transformation enterprise 2.0 MORE
I find that agile teams, because they are agile, may leave behind fundamental-to-IT risk mitigation strategies that can make sprints, releases, and application development more reliable and robust. Risk mitigation should be a basic tenet of agile mindsets and culture, and perhaps even agile governance. It's particularly important for teams new to agile, teams working on complex legacy. MORE
New business opportunities require agility from application portfolios. The post Adapt Business Applications to Deliver Agility and Innovation appeared first on Smarter With Gartner. MORE
While the words I'm using to describe a data science are different than software development, the process and mindset are very applicable to agile methodologies. . agile data big data data management data scientist future of work organizational changeIt's called science for a reason. MORE
In fact, in “The Data Center of Tomorrow” I wrote that the: “data center will be a combination of internal and external systems that combine to create an agile, efficient and effective technology delivery platform.”. Either way, complexity has the potential to be an agility killer if it isn’t managed or planned for correctly. Without proper thinking and planning, this complexity can have a negative effect on agility within the data center. MORE
The most dangerous parallel initiatives are those where, on one side, they are changing their development teams to become more Agile, but a separate initiative in the same enterprise exists where their Operations folks are running a development and operations (DevOps) transformation. But I don't want to dig in here about Agile+DevOps and how overused and abused the term "DevOps" is. Read more Categories: Agile. Agile Testing. agile software development. MORE
In my recent report, " How To Deliver Services With Quality, Agility, And Value ," I look at these issues and discuss how to pragmatically assess your DevOps journey. Agile. ARA Tools Agile Application Release Automation Atom Bank DevOps IT Infrastructure Lyft Rob Stroud airbnb cloud uberEvery business today is under pressure from a startup that is disrupting their traditional market. MORE
agile planning agile software development enterprise 2.0 Tech lead is a role many organizations assign without providing a role description or defined responsibilities. That's because it's often used as a role on an initiative, product, project, or team, and not a formal job description. Most organizations spend their efforts on defining and wording job descriptions and related career paths. They don't go more in-depth into. future of work leadership organizational change MORE
The goal was, and still is, to establish a shared understanding of the requirements with the agile development team without overly specifying how the story should be implemented. More mature agile. about me agile planning agile software development digital transformation it management product managementWriting user stories was once a relatively straightforward exercise. MORE
There’s no mystery as to who benefits from agile marketing adoption. Agile B2B Marketing SiriusDecisions Research Best-in-Class Processes and Agile Marketing MORE
This year I'm excited to be teaming up with Diego Lo Giudice on the bi-annual Forrester Agile at Scale Adoption survey. So in addition to successful Agile team practices, alignment with business stakeholders upstream and downstream with testing and operations, we are looking into more Agile at scale issues like budgeting and DevOps. Software development leaders continue to buy into Agile--while they eradicate traditional waterfall style development. Agile survey. MORE
When I speak with clients about the software defined data center, the one benefit that the majority of people tend to really latch onto is the ability of SDDC to bring agility to the data center. A few weeks ago, I wrote a post titled The Agile Data Center that touches on the subject of the agility in the data center. In that post, I wrote: “Agility doesn’t necessarily mean new systems nor does it mean moving your data center to the cloud. MORE
I have been introducing different aspects of StarCIO Agile Planning. Prior to that, I posted on how StarCIO Agile Planning drives architecture standards and developing great products! This week I published a first white paper titled StarCIO Agile Planning: The Missing Practices to Gain. about me agile planning agile software development cio digital transformation enterprise 2.0 Last week I shared how continuous planning is used to deliver solid roadmaps. MORE
This year I'm excited to have my team colleague Amanda joining me in the bi-annual Forrester Agile at Scale Adoption survey. So in addition to successful Agile team practices, alignment with business stakeholders upstream and downstream with testing and operations, we are looking into more Agile at scale issues like budgeting and DevOps. Software development leaders continue to buy into Agile--while they eradicate traditional waterfall style development. MORE
Driving agility has taken on greater meaning and importance because of the COVID pandemic, and successful digital leaders recognize the urgency in enabling smarter, faster, safer, and innovative organizations. MORE
I participated in the #DataCtrChat Twitter chat last week to join in on the conversation about the Agile Data Center. The question was: What differentiates an Agile Data Center from a traditional data center? Because each organization has a different definition for their data center, it’s difficult to provide a one-size-fits-all answer to the differences between an agile data center and a traditional data center. MORE
I'm asked this question on selecting agile KPIs all the time from leaders. . MORE
Why are some organizations stuck with fr-agile development processes? Hint: It's not because you need to "scale" agile. Many organizations succeed in getting an A-team practicing agile and then look to "scale" their best practices to the rest of the organization. But IMHO, the issue at many organizations is not about scaling agile. agile planning agile software development it management leadership product management MORE
In my last post, I discussed shallow commitments, an agile tool team can use to negotiate with product owners when they are asked to commit to more stories in a sprint above their velocity and comfort zone. agile planning agile software development innovation software development MORE
I've written several posts on the CIO and leadership roles in agile transformation, agile adoption, and agile practices. For example, in the CIO's role in agile transformation, I stress the following four leadership roles: Asking questions to drive collaboration on business, tech, and data Taking one for the team and challenging the status quo Driving iterative thinking and minimally. MORE
Artificial Intelligence CTO News agile Cognilytica crisp-dm methogologies Microsoft training waterfallCompanies of all sizes are implementing AI, ML, and cognitive technology projects for a wide range of reasons in a disparate array of industries and customer sectors. Some AI efforts are focused on development of intelligent devices and vehicles, which incorporate three simultaneous development streams of software, hardware, and constantly evolving machine learning models. Other […]. MORE
Agile is as much a philosophy as a methodology. Highly successful agile practitioners model their growth after the second set of superheroes. They develop skills, live agile values, and strive to continuously improve their proficiency and breadth of knowledge?— — becoming true “agile superheroes.” ” “Agile is as much a philosophy as a methodology,” says Bill Holz , Vice President Analyst, Gartner. Model agile values. MORE
Are you considering getting formally trained or certified in agile methodologies or scrum? Are you looking to become a certified scrum master, or maybe get trained in an agile framework such as SAFe or LeSS, or specialize in agile transformation with classes like StarCIO Agile Planning? MORE
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The 14th annual state of agile report is now available, and it's one of the papers I look forward to reviewing every year. It provides a barometer on what the practices, tools, and business benefits aligned with agile methodologies. agile planning agile software development cio DevOps digital transformation enterprise 2.0 It surveys over one thousand software development professionals from a mix of company sizes, development team sizes, geographies, and industries. MORE
Organisations should enlist agile people to join agile security teams that are able to deal with the continually changing cyber threat landscape, say security team leaders MORE
If you ask any business leader whether they’d prefer that their organization be thought of as ‘slow moving’ or ‘agile’, most would respond with ‘agile’ as their preference. Those that don’t respond in the affirmative toward agility are most likely running a dying business or are just out of sync with their industry and their organization. While everyone most likely knows what agility means, let me take as second to define the term and set the stage for the discussion. MORE
Agile Related Topics Social, Agile and Transformation
JANUARY 11, 2021
about me agile software development cio DevOps digital transformation enterprise 2.0 For the second year in a row, I share with you all the books that I read as part of my GoodReads challenge.
Social, Agile and Transformation
JULY 27, 2020
I'm asked this question on selecting agile KPIs all the time from leaders. .
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CEB IT
MARCH 15, 2020
Agile is as much a philosophy as a methodology. Highly successful agile practitioners model their growth after the second set of superheroes. They develop skills, live agile values, and strive to continuously improve their proficiency and breadth of knowledge?— — becoming true “agile superheroes.” ” “Agile is as much a philosophy as a methodology,” says Bill Holz , Vice President Analyst, Gartner. Model agile values.
CEB IT
DECEMBER 10, 2020
New business opportunities require agility from application portfolios. The post Adapt Business Applications to Deliver Agility and Innovation appeared first on Smarter With Gartner.
Advertiser: UserTesting
Agile has become the go-to methodology for companies that want to reduce the risk involved in shipping new products. But how do you prevent building items nobody wants? If you wait to get user feedback until after development, then you’ve waited too long.
Social, Agile and Transformation
OCTOBER 12, 2020
We can call many processes "agile," and teams can claim that they are practicing scrum. Still, there are sizable steps going from following basic agile ceremonies to agile methodologies or cultures. Specifically, teams are not agile if all they are doing is.
Social, Agile and Transformation
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
Are you considering getting formally trained or certified in agile methodologies or scrum? Are you looking to become a certified scrum master, or maybe get trained in an agile framework such as SAFe or LeSS, or specialize in agile transformation with classes like StarCIO Agile Planning?
Social, Agile and Transformation
AUGUST 24, 2020
While the words I'm using to describe a data science are different than software development, the process and mindset are very applicable to agile methodologies. . agile data big data data management data scientist future of work organizational changeIt's called science for a reason.
Social, Agile and Transformation
DECEMBER 14, 2020
Driving agility has taken on greater meaning and importance because of the COVID pandemic, and successful digital leaders recognize the urgency in enabling smarter, faster, safer, and innovative organizations.
Forrester IT
FEBRUARY 1, 2017
Read more Categories: Agile. Agile Testing. Agile Agile Testing BizDevOps DevOps IT Infrastructure Robert Stroud automated deployment automated testing cloud cloud computing metricsIn the days of old, not very long ago, release cycles were measured in years --organizations were using "on-time" and "on-budget" as the mantra for project efficacy. Business today is compelled to deliver business technology in cycles of hours, or days.
Social, Agile and Transformation
JANUARY 27, 2020
I've written several posts on the CIO and leadership roles in agile transformation, agile adoption, and agile practices. For example, in the CIO's role in agile transformation, I stress the following four leadership roles: Asking questions to drive collaboration on business, tech, and data Taking one for the team and challenging the status quo Driving iterative thinking and minimally.
Speaker: Leo Zhadanovsky, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Amazon's journey to its current modern architecture and processes provides insights for all software development leaders. To get there, Amazon focused on decomposing for agility, making critical cultural and operational changes, and creating tools for software delivery. The result was enabling developers to rapidly release and iterate software while maintaining industry-leading standards on security, reliability, and performance. Whether you're developing for a small startup or a large corporation, learning the tools for CI/CD will make your good DevOps team great. We are excited to be joined by Leo Zhadanovsky, a Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services.
Forrester IT
MAY 2, 2017
The most dangerous parallel initiatives are those where, on one side, they are changing their development teams to become more Agile, but a separate initiative in the same enterprise exists where their Operations folks are running a development and operations (DevOps) transformation. But I don't want to dig in here about Agile+DevOps and how overused and abused the term "DevOps" is. Read more Categories: Agile. Agile Testing. agile software development.
Social, Agile and Transformation
JUNE 1, 2020
One of my favorite workshops that I do is called Agile for Stakeholders. Now there are books, frameworks, and tools to help agile product owners, scrum masters, and leads, including StarCIO Agile Planner, but there are limited resources for stakeholders. agile planning cio cmo digital transformation enterprise 2.0
Social, Agile and Transformation
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Why are some organizations stuck with fr-agile development processes? Hint: It's not because you need to "scale" agile. Many organizations succeed in getting an A-team practicing agile and then look to "scale" their best practices to the rest of the organization. But IMHO, the issue at many organizations is not about scaling agile. agile planning agile software development it management leadership product management
Social, Agile and Transformation
JUNE 8, 2020
The 14th annual state of agile report is now available, and it's one of the papers I look forward to reviewing every year. It provides a barometer on what the practices, tools, and business benefits aligned with agile methodologies. agile planning agile software development cio DevOps digital transformation enterprise 2.0 It surveys over one thousand software development professionals from a mix of company sizes, development team sizes, geographies, and industries.
Forrester IT
DECEMBER 19, 2016
In my recent report, " How To Deliver Services With Quality, Agility, And Value ," I look at these issues and discuss how to pragmatically assess your DevOps journey. Agile. ARA Tools Agile Application Release Automation Atom Bank DevOps IT Infrastructure Lyft Rob Stroud airbnb cloud uberEvery business today is under pressure from a startup that is disrupting their traditional market.
Speaker: Peter Taylor, Speaker/Author, The Lazy Project Manager
Businesses everywhere are trying to “get business agile”—but it’s not easy to adapt to becoming this adaptive. How can conventional organizations succeed in this transformation? In this webinar, Peter Taylor will walk through the change process step by step, and look at a tried and tested transformation roadmap: benefits are outlined, solutions to common challenges offered, and tried and tested methods and tools provided. It will be a guide towards a decentralized and management style that offers more successful decision making through collaboration.
Eric D. Brown
NOVEMBER 24, 2014
I participated in the #DataCtrChat Twitter chat last week to join in on the conversation about the Agile Data Center. The question was: What differentiates an Agile Data Center from a traditional data center? Because each organization has a different definition for their data center, it’s difficult to provide a one-size-fits-all answer to the differences between an agile data center and a traditional data center.
Social, Agile and Transformation
DECEMBER 18, 2017
Everyone, or at least almost everyone is doing some form of agile practices today. In fact, some leaders drive their digital transformation programs with leading agile to deliver customer facing applications. agile planning agile software development cio innovation it management leadership organizational change product management
Forrester IT
JUNE 13, 2017
This year I'm excited to be teaming up with Diego Lo Giudice on the bi-annual Forrester Agile at Scale Adoption survey. So in addition to successful Agile team practices, alignment with business stakeholders upstream and downstream with testing and operations, we are looking into more Agile at scale issues like budgeting and DevOps. Software development leaders continue to buy into Agile--while they eradicate traditional waterfall style development. Agile survey.
Eric D. Brown
FEBRUARY 2, 2015
If you ask any business leader whether they’d prefer that their organization be thought of as ‘slow moving’ or ‘agile’, most would respond with ‘agile’ as their preference. Those that don’t respond in the affirmative toward agility are most likely running a dying business or are just out of sync with their industry and their organization. While everyone most likely knows what agility means, let me take as second to define the term and set the stage for the discussion.
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.
Computer Weekly
JUNE 6, 2017
Organisations should enlist agile people to join agile security teams that are able to deal with the continually changing cyber threat landscape, say security team leaders
Fountainhead
JANUARY 11, 2021
(A version of this Blog originally published on Auth0 Blogs ) Apps are becoming componentized and API-based to facilitate reuse and agility; Identity management cloud services will help. "In
Social, Agile and Transformation
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
I have been introducing different aspects of StarCIO Agile Planning. Prior to that, I posted on how StarCIO Agile Planning drives architecture standards and developing great products! This week I published a first white paper titled StarCIO Agile Planning: The Missing Practices to Gain. about me agile planning agile software development cio digital transformation enterprise 2.0 Last week I shared how continuous planning is used to deliver solid roadmaps.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 29, 2018
Artificial Intelligence CTO News agile Cognilytica crisp-dm methogologies Microsoft training waterfallCompanies of all sizes are implementing AI, ML, and cognitive technology projects for a wide range of reasons in a disparate array of industries and customer sectors. Some AI efforts are focused on development of intelligent devices and vehicles, which incorporate three simultaneous development streams of software, hardware, and constantly evolving machine learning models. Other […].
Speaker: Steve McConnell, CEO, Construx Software
In this talk, Steve McConnell, CEO of Construx Software, distills hundreds of companies’-worth of real-world experience into the proven Agile leadership practices that work best. Steve will seamlessly thread together traditional approaches, early Agile approaches, modern Agile approaches, and the principles and context that underlie them all—creating an invaluable resource for Agile leaders, their teams, and their organizations.
Social, Agile and Transformation
AUGUST 12, 2019
The goal was, and still is, to establish a shared understanding of the requirements with the agile development team without overly specifying how the story should be implemented. More mature agile. about me agile planning agile software development digital transformation it management product managementWriting user stories was once a relatively straightforward exercise.
Social, Agile and Transformation
NOVEMBER 4, 2019
In my last post, I discussed shallow commitments, an agile tool team can use to negotiate with product owners when they are asked to commit to more stories in a sprint above their velocity and comfort zone. agile planning agile software development innovation software development
Social, Agile and Transformation
APRIL 6, 2020
I take on the challenge of defining the role's strategic responsibilities and illustrating how product managers should best work with agile teams. agile planning organizational change product managementThe fourth episode of 5 Minutes with @NYIke covers the role of product management. Please note that the video focuses on Product Managers chartered with developing customer-facing applications and products. There's a very different way to think.
Social, Agile and Transformation
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
Agile teams can't wait till the end of a release to begin planning the next one. Furthermore, this approach to planning doesn't simplify drafting roadmaps and forecasts that many organizations require from their agile teams. And while there are many benefits from the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), its Program Increment (PI). The time gap it creates is a tremendous loss of productivity.
Social, Agile and Transformation
JULY 15, 2019
I find that agile teams, because they are agile, may leave behind fundamental-to-IT risk mitigation strategies that can make sprints, releases, and application development more reliable and robust. Risk mitigation should be a basic tenet of agile mindsets and culture, and perhaps even agile governance. It's particularly important for teams new to agile, teams working on complex legacy.
Social, Agile and Transformation
JULY 13, 2020
agile planning agile software development enterprise 2.0 Tech lead is a role many organizations assign without providing a role description or defined responsibilities. That's because it's often used as a role on an initiative, product, project, or team, and not a formal job description. Most organizations spend their efforts on defining and wording job descriptions and related career paths. They don't go more in-depth into. future of work leadership organizational change
Forrester's Customer Insights
DECEMBER 9, 2020
There’s no mystery as to who benefits from agile marketing adoption. Agile B2B Marketing SiriusDecisions Research Best-in-Class Processes and Agile Marketing
Eric D. Brown
JANUARY 29, 2015
Similarly, the cloud has given organizations access to an almost limitless amount of processing and storage power with low costs, relatively high reliability and a great deal of agility. These companies have transformed (or are working to transform) their data centers from a monolithic, underutilized liability to an agile and valuable asset, but they’ve often failed to push agility as a core concept for IT professionals working within their IT groups.
Association of Information Technology Professional
DECEMBER 1, 2020
This lesson in the value of agility drives home the need for a workforce that continues to upskill, evolve, and drive innovation The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about seismic shifts in the global economy leaving many tech leaders struggling to transform their organizations.
Eric D. Brown
MARCH 24, 2015
In fact, in “The Data Center of Tomorrow” I wrote that the: “data center will be a combination of internal and external systems that combine to create an agile, efficient and effective technology delivery platform.”. Either way, complexity has the potential to be an agility killer if it isn’t managed or planned for correctly. Without proper thinking and planning, this complexity can have a negative effect on agility within the data center.
Social, Agile and Transformation
AUGUST 19, 2019
Agile planning doesn't end when stories are written, accepted by the team, sized, and ready for development. Story writing is one aspect of agile planning, but it's not the only one. At StarCIO, agile planning is done at several levels depending on the complexity of the requirement.
Venture Beast
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
AI Big Data Business Commerce Dev Enterprise Entrepreneur Agility Robotics bipdedal robots Boston Dynamics category-/Science/Engineering & Technology/Robotics helper robots materials and logistics robots
Eric D. Brown
MARCH 23, 2015
I’ve been writing about agility within the data center and IT group recently. While reading a white paper titled “ Agile IT Empowers Business Success ”, I ran across an intriguing sentence: “ If the business can’t adapt, it may not survive.“ In order to drive this adaptability, organization’s require both an agile business and an agile IT group , which is something I wrote a bit about last week. Information Technology The New CIO Agility CIO IT
Social, Agile and Transformation
JUNE 19, 2018
Last week I moderated a panel at nGage's Enterprise Transformation Exchange on Developing an Agile IT Organization: Concepts, Culture and Concerns. CIOs and other IT leaders are looking to agile practices to transform operations, develop new products, about me agile planning agile software development cio digital transformation executive presentations future of work innovation it management organizational change software development
Eric D. Brown
DECEMBER 23, 2014
When I speak with clients about the software defined data center, the one benefit that the majority of people tend to really latch onto is the ability of SDDC to bring agility to the data center. A few weeks ago, I wrote a post titled The Agile Data Center that touches on the subject of the agility in the data center. In that post, I wrote: “Agility doesn’t necessarily mean new systems nor does it mean moving your data center to the cloud.
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