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What is a Scrum master? A key role for project success

CIO Business Intelligence

Scrum is a powerful framework for implementing agile processes in software development and other projects. This highly adopted framework utilizes short iterations of work, called sprints, and daily meetings, called scrums, to tackle discrete portions of a project in succession until the project is complete. Others do not.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Initiating phase: During a project’s initial phase, project managers are responsible for developing the project charter and identifying the relevant stakeholders involved in achieving the project’s intended outcome. See our lists of top agile certs and top Scrum credentials to take your career to the next level.

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9 tips for achieving IT service delivery excellence

CIO Business Intelligence

IT service delivery enables an organization to give end users access to essential IT services by designing, developing, and deploying key technology resources, including applications and data. Develop a structured service catalog and adapt Achieving service delivery excellence is not a one-size-fits-all process.

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5 key mistakes IT leaders make at board meetings

CIO Business Intelligence

We both worked in the construction industry, so, for example, we might help these executives understand Scrum in software development by comparing it to design-build and agile construction project methodologies. One approach both Puglisi and I recommend is to answer technical questions with analogies from your industry.

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We're an Agile Family! - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 But to be a agile family with a scrum board, and family retrospectives? agile software development. (56).

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The Ultimate Goal of Digital Transformation

Future of CIO

The construct of the question indicates exclusivity between the two. Getting teams to adopt Scrum and start doing that well is one small part of what a transformation requires. If there is not a common understanding then there is more than one mindset to change. Then you can value different opinions and take advantage of them.

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An archetype-based approach to driving your global workforce transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Where they once optimized predominantly for cost, they’re now weighing that one variable more carefully against many others, including productivity, digital maturity, and the development of longstanding capabilities. Are they developing novel products and services? Begin by understanding those entities’ remit and ways of working.