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Digital transformation’s fundamental change management mistake

CIO Business Intelligence

Underpinning these initiatives is a slew of technology capabilities and strategies aimed at accelerating delivery cycles, such as establishing product management disciplines, building cloud architectures, developing devops capabilities, and fostering agile cultures.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Although agile does value documentation, it is not as heavily emphasized as it is in traditional project management, for which documentation is often very detailed and assembled in advance. Self-organizing teams are most likely to develop the best architectures and designs and to meet requirements.

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The RACI matrix: Your blueprint for project success

CIO Business Intelligence

The simplest and most effective approach I’ve seen and used to define and document project roles and responsibilities is the RACI model. In almost 100 percent of these rescue efforts, I have found that there is no shared understanding of participant roles and responsibilities, nor is there explicit documentation to support it.

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Networking the Cloud for IoT – Pt 3 Cloud Network Systems Engineering

Cloud Musings

This is the beginning of the CONOPS document referenced earlier. This document captures User Needs which are formal statements of what the user wants from the system. This CONOPS leads to Derived Requirements which, through an iterative process, are analyzed against a Target Architecture. Dwight Bues, of Engility Corp.,

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How To Get a Team to Think Agile - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

In my case, they are using agile to plan out an architecture. The problem is, using agile process (scrum specifically) for planning, problem solving, developing a strategy, documenting an architecture requires some discipline and thinking a little differently. Starting with a clear statement of vision to align the team.

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How to Measure Software Quality?

Future of CIO

For a development manager/Scrum Master - it may mean how is the code developed and what are the deployment standards. Is there good up to date documentation, preferably automatically created? This probably holds true for the customer as well. Also, can you build once in an automated fashion and deploy in all environments.

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Deutsche Telekom uses TM Forum Open APIs for European unification

TM Forum

The company has been using TM Forum Open APIs to meet a big business initiative to transform their complex back-end systems, and introduce one single mobile application (OneApp) across Europe where previously each country had its own app, all with differing architectural approaches and larger maintenance costs. New EU IT architecture.

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