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What is a Scrum master? A key role for project success

CIO Business Intelligence

Scrum is a powerful framework for implementing agile processes in software development and other projects. This highly adopted framework utilizes short iterations of work, called sprints, and daily meetings, called scrums, to tackle discrete portions of a project in succession until the project is complete. Others do not.

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We're an Agile Family! - Social, Agile, and Transformation

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 Were an Agile Family! Social, Agile, Transformation Pages.

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What is a project manager? The lead role for project success

CIO Business Intelligence

Many businesses are adopting agile as the preferred project methodology, creating the need for employees to develop their knowledge in this area. Agile certs such as the Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) can give you a leg up, as can Scrum-based certs such as the Certified ScrumMaster (CSM).

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5 key mistakes IT leaders make at board meetings

CIO Business Intelligence

We both worked in the construction industry, so, for example, we might help these executives understand Scrum in software development by comparing it to design-build and agile construction project methodologies. One approach both Puglisi and I recommend is to answer technical questions with analogies from your industry.

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9 tips for achieving IT service delivery excellence

CIO Business Intelligence

An IT organization that collects sentiment and acts on actionable, constructive feedback will always have more users that are fans rather than detractors.” Your leadership team should behave like a Scrum team, enabling end-to-end delivery and support.” IT leaders need a comprehensive plan to make their operation the best it can be.”

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The Ultimate Goal of Digital Transformation

Future of CIO

The overall goal of adopting a more "Agile" approach is "resilience," in essence. Many forward-thinking organizations are scaling their Agile practices from doing Agile to being Agile, what’s the business value in being agile though? And what are the well-defined goals of Agile transformation?

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An archetype-based approach to driving your global workforce transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Are they working in agile? Step 2: Create the master set of archetypes After constructing a demand profile for each function, look across those profiles. As you can imagine, the archetype after which these teams are modeled varies based on the demand profiles they are constructed to satisfy. Configuring a package solution?