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Taking the Canadian Insurance Industry Digital

Cloud Musings

. - McKinsey & Company Founded in 1871, Economical Insurance operates within the old and relatively static Property and Casualty (P&C) insurance industry. According to the American Insurance Association (AIA) , the modern insurance industry, developed primarily in England after the Great London Fire in 1666.

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Top 7 Ingredients to Establishing an Agile Development Practice.

Social, Agile and Transformation

More and more teams and companies are considering agile processes, SCRUM, Extreme, or hybrids to either pilot new initiatives or to establish the practice. Strong business sponsorship is needed to uphold the process and insure the team gets the support it needs. cloud computing. (6). and business transformation. about me. (33).

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6 smart practices for better business-IT alignment

CIO Business Intelligence

Meanwhile, with easy-to-use, cloud-based, no-code or low-code solutions readily available, tech-savvy business professionals can handle much of their own technology without any help at all. “I That person is now a Scrum master at a major insurance company. I think CIOs have a real challenge,” Topham says. “I Andrew Palmer.

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Enterprise Agile Development - Why you still need Project Managers.

Social, Agile and Transformation

Ive been asked lately about the role of project managers on agile or SCRUM teams. Some specifics: Scrum and agile are very team and inward facing. Project managers oversee the story writing process to insure proper governance and completion. cloud computing. (6). Agile practices evolve. about me. (33). agile planning. (17).

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Transforming IT for cloud success

CIO Business Intelligence

As CIO Neil Holden moved his company, Halfords Group, further into the cloud, he sought to do more than simply “lift-and-shift” IT operations. Rather, Holden — like most CIOs — wanted his increasing use of cloud to enable and shape the company’s transformation agenda. You can’t take your same skills and teams from on-prem to the cloud.

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Measuring Costs in Agile Delivery - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

Measuring actual costs turns out to be an easier process assuming that you have a tool to manage the backlog and a scrum master running daily standups. Youll also need to have some basic governance and insure that >X% of the teams activity is captured as stories. cloud computing. (6). So How Do You Measure Actual Costs.

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

Social, Agile and Transformation

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. Insure that the team is aligned on what they are trying to accomplish. cloud computing. (6). Why agile for planning? about me. (33).

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