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Agile vs. Waterfall: Which Should A CIO Choose?

The Accidental Successful CIO

User experience experts work with a Scrum master, client, product team, and other key stakeholders to determine what the product should look like and all of the other desired elements. Agile requires a Scrum master who is experienced with sprints and who is not easily flustered due to the fast nature of iterations. Next comes design.

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10 most popular IT certifications for 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

For organizations interested in hiring certified IT pros, offering to pay for training and exam fees can go a long way, as 12% of respondents said they didn’t earn a certification because their company didn’t pay for the exam. AWS is a widely adopted platform at companies both large and small, making it a smart choice for your resume.

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Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

CIO Business Intelligence

As a result, many new car companies are created and competition increases, says Tobias Altehed, who leads Volvo Cars’ digital organization and sits on the company’s extended management team. Tough system change Replacing core systems that comprise the backbone of the company is never easy.

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16 best entry-level IT certifications to launch your career

CIO Business Intelligence

Exam fee : $100 Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Ethical hacker might sound like an oxymoron, but there are plenty of companies that are eager to hire security professionals who can help keep the company one step ahead of hackers who threaten company security. For more information, see “ CSM certification: What you need to know.”

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3 force multipliers for digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Tech companies have laid off over 250 thousand employees since 2022, and 93% of CEOs report preparing for a US recession over the next 12 to 18 months. Some IT organizations elected to lift and shift apps to the cloud and get out of the data center faster, hoping that a second phase of funding for modernization would come.

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How to successfully launch a green field operator in 10 months

TM Forum

First, planning and designing a cloud native architecture for a CSP is one the toughest challenges in telecoms because the telecoms business is different from that of other digital-native companies. From day one, the business and data centers formed a closed loop to automate data operations.

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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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