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How to make your developer organization more efficient

CIO Business Intelligence

Developers are hired for their coding skills, but often spend too much time on information-finding, setup tasks, and manual processes. To combat wasted time and effort, Discover® Financial Services championed a few initiatives to help developers get back to what they do best: developing. The result?

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Agile project management: Principles, benefits, tools, tips, and when to make the switch

CIO Business Intelligence

Agile project management definition Agile project management is a methodology used primarily in software development that favors flexibility and collaboration, incorporating customer feedback throughout the project life cycle.

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7 tell-tale signs of fake agile

CIO Business Intelligence

The same is not true, sadly, for many agile project management and development initiatives. Too often, an organization may launch something that looks like an agile program, calls itself an agile program, claims to operate like an agile program, yet really isn’t an agile program in the least.

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How to be the CIO every company wants

CIO Business Intelligence

Companies expect a lot from their CIOs: integral knowledge of the business, visible financial results, and agility, as well as the ability to manage change, actively collaborate with business leaders, and explain IT in plain English. How will it reduce OpEx and speed time to market? Finance feels self-sufficient.

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Five Key Agile Practices to Support Architects

Social, Agile and Transformation

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation.

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Software project management challenges — and how to handle them

CIO Business Intelligence

The need for efficient software development has taken on greater importance as enterprises introduce more and more digital services and add automation capabilities to enhance business processes. Here are some of the more likely challenges IT leaders and teams face with software projects, and how they can address them.

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What Erie Insurance does to develop transformational talent

CIO Business Intelligence

Finally, the way Erie Insurance drives transformation is by leveraging enterprise business agility. With the need to IDEATE in mind, the company takes a multi-pronged approach to talent development. In the IT organization, there are several high-level talent programs focused on attracting, retaining and developing talent.