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

CIO Business Intelligence

With this as a guide, they can then plan and estimate costs, determine budgets, identify human resource needs, and establish plans for communications and quality management. The role also requires a business mindset, team building and conflict resolution capabilities, and change management expertise, among other key skills in high demand.

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Project management: Tips, tools, best practices

CIO Business Intelligence

Human resource management: Plan and identify human resource needs. Communications management: Plan stakeholder communications. Risk management: Perform qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, plan risk mitigation strategies. Procurement management: Identify and plan required procurements. Budget for surprises.

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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

But speaking to many IT leaders, there are often gaps between how IT runs Scrum, Kanban, or other agile practices and what CIOs need in order to achieve digital transformation objectives. Apply agile methodologies to the full lifecycle of an iterative program, including planning, delivery, change management, and communications.

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Best business analyst certifications to level up your career

CIO Business Intelligence

Through the program, you can opt to earn your CCBA certification as well as certifications in Agile Scrum Foundation, Digital Transformation for Leaders, Python for Data Science, and R Programming for Data Science. Completion of the program will also earn you 35 IIBA and 25 Project Management Institute (PMI) professional development units.

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6 smart practices for better business-IT alignment

CIO Business Intelligence

The benefits of improved business-IT collaboration include things such as projects that better fit business goals, improved change management, and better buy-in for new initiatives. Below, five IT leaders share the strategies that have worked for them. That person is now a Scrum master at a major insurance company.

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How to Build a Organization with High Changeability

Future of CIO

Are sponsors open to failures at team/project/program/strategy levels? Do middle-level managers act as process police or guidelines provider? If you don't have any strategy at all then there will be “chaotic,” or get stagnate when you shift from doing agile to being agile.

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