CIO Dashboard

JULY 30, 2012

With the popularity of public cloud offerings, BYOD and personal productivity apps, rogue technology acquisitions (at least from IT’s perspective) are more pervasive than ever, creating a new focus on “Shadow IT.” ” Our 2012 Digital IQ study of 489 executives found that 30% of technology procurement is outside the CIO’s budget. For example, it may make sense to outsource enterprise apps to the cloud to capitalize on the scale and to reduce costs.

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SDLC Survey Budget Architecture 72

Future of CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2012

For enterprise application development, it is best to make sure you have the best solution that meets the organization's needs, budgeting time and finances accordingly to avoid costly headaches usually associated with "quickie' development projects. Agile methodology and Cloud envelop makes it possible It's a myth that you have to sacrifice any of the three. Agile/ SCRUM approaches help to overcome these issues by breaking requirements and work into discrete sprints.

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SDLC SCRUM Agile Architecture 43

Future of CIO

JANUARY 13, 2013

towards "How can we use IT to improve innovation, competitive advantage, agility, etc.?" Inconsistent approach to processes and procedures and/or does not distinguish between a PMP and an SDLC. Using a waterfall in an organization where the business has an agile mentality leads to failure. Using Agile without a full sense of the overall plan/roadmap leads to failure. IT needs to not only look at symptoms but also dig through root causes.

SDLC 43

SDLC Budget Agile Government 43