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6 smart practices for better business-IT alignment

CIO Business Intelligence

When Darren Person joined market research company The NPD Group as global CIO three years ago, he wanted to know how things at the company operated at the ground level. That observation applies equally to IT people, focused on a company’s technology, and to top-level executives who tend to be far removed from day-to-day work, he says.

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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. Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization.

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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. Website Development Company Reply Delete Add comment Load more.

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Federal Government Signals Interest In Several Key Leading Edge Technologies

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Cloud infrastructure and mobile applications are still major aspects within the field using project management and technical approaches like SCRUM which employs real-time decision-making processes based on actual events and information. Today’s top trend with software development leaders is continuous development. Augmented Reality.

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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. And he hired agile coaches to work with his IT team.

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