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Five Key Agile Practices to Support Architects

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 Insuring Architecture needs fit into an Agile Development Practice. and business transformation.

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Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

CIO Business Intelligence

Now that systems are being replaced, it’s also about creating a new architecture without those types of connections. We haven’t won by reducing governance and control, but by seeing that it’s important to set up frameworks, with clear principles and guidelines, so teams know what to do,” says Altehed. “We

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Transforming to a Big Data Organization

Social, Agile and Transformation

So in thinking about this transformation, here are some simple questions and guidelines on where to focus efforts. The bigger the data, the more likely you will need to look at infrastructure to store, process, and manage larger data sets. If you need fast results, you will need to consider the architecture to best process the data.

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How to Define IT Agility?

Future of CIO

Agility requires a set of complementary & strategic IT competencies: It includes but not limited to portfolio management, project management, change management, enterprise architecture, rapid adoption and deployment of new platforms, etc. The simpler the business processes, the agiler the business is.

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How to Measure Software Quality?

Future of CIO

As quality, especially software quality is contextual and relative, but still, there can be set of guidelines which can help the team to follow the best practices to measure software quality accordingly. Why it’s Hard to Measure Software Quality There’s always debate upon quality's subjectivity and objectivity.

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The CIO’s Journey: Transactional IT vs. Transformational IT

Future of CIO

A Transformation needs strategic guideline & policy. Align the 5 P's (People, Process, Product, Partner to realize the 5th P - Performance) Architecture : IT must have an over-arching vision of what the firm is trying to achieve. A Transformation focuses on goals of innovation. A Transaction follows standard operating procedures.

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Key Differences Every IT Professional Must Know: ITIL 2011 vs. ITILv3

Galido

ITIL 2011’s service design module also focuses on the processes, architecture, documentation, and policies which allow the organization to design the appropriate IT services to meet the business requirements. There are many modified guidelines included in the ITIL 2011 for the IT professionals. Conclusion.