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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

CIO Business Intelligence

IT leaders seeking to drive enterprise growth through technology investments are often saddled with budgets that make their tasks of increasing the top and bottom lines challenging. Despite an estimated increase to IT budgets of 5.1% The year 2023 seems to be no different. We obviously won’t cut investments here.

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Quality vs. Agility

Future of CIO

Quality is a function of scope, budget, and resources. Agility is a model of performance without sacrificing the basic modularity of the business functions. Agility = The ability of business to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently , in response to changes in the business environment. Cutting quality REDUCES agility.

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Cloud native order management boosts speed, scale and operational efficiency

TM Forum

It stifled innovation internally and within ecosystems, slowing time to market and hampering business agility. The communications service provider (CSP) wanted to modernize its order management systems and processes to avoid vendor lock-in, shorten release cycles, and get products and services to market faster, in a more agile way.

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Fed Tech Roundup November 4

CTOvision

Agile training, delivered agilely - FCW.com (blog). Task force to hammer out drone registration guidelines - GCN.com (blog). We have a budget deal. Leidos’ Robert Zitz to Tackle Cyber, Physical Risks at Eisenhower Institute’s Energy Policy Discussion. DISA tees up new round of contracts - FCW.com.

CTO Hire 150
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SAFe certification: launch your Scaled Agile Framework career

CIO Business Intelligence

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certifications are becoming valuable in larger organizations looking for efficient project delivery, reduced time-to-market, and ways to provide better stakeholder value. Scaled Agile: Scaled Agile is a key provider of agile training, courses, and certification, including SAFe.

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ODA components garner growing industry support

TM Forum

One of the advantages of standardized components is that they will help make TM Forum’s ODA 100% machine readable, allowing CSPs to identify the components they need to build agile and autonomous cloud native IT and network systems. ODA and components represent a marked shift in how telcos use software to drive their business.

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What is TOGAF? An enterprise architecture methodology for business

CIO Business Intelligence

TOGAF helps organize the development process through a systematic approach aimed at reducing errors, maintaining timelines, staying on budget, and aligning IT with business units to produce quality results. TOGAF 9 was introduced in 2009, with new details on the overall framework, including increased guidelines and techniques.