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Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

CIO Business Intelligence

The automotive industry keeps accelerating into the technological switch to electric engines, and all efforts at Volvo Cars point to a clear ambition to be a clear frontrunner. The result, for example, is no more roles such as scrum master and release train engineer, while project managers and program managers have returned. “So

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Product-based IT: A blueprint for success

CIO Business Intelligence

Arooni, along with his CIO counterparts, have made a variety of structural changes and initiated a range of best practices to ensure a successful transition away from legacy-style project management to an IT operating model architected around product centricity. Gary Jeter, EVP & CTO, Trust One.