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Best scrum certifications in 2022

Tech Republic

Earn your title as a Scrum Master or Product Owner by becoming certified. Here is a list of some of the hottest Scrum certifications out there. The post Best scrum certifications in 2022 appeared first on TechRepublic. CXO Developer Project Management Software

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Yes, it’s Agile --> Three Useful Questions that Block Scrum Teams

Social, Agile and Transformation

If you’re married to a framework, it’s hard for leaders to develop agile cultures and mindsets. agile planning agile software development cio digital transformation future of work innovation it management organizational change product management project managementIn Chapter 5 of my book, Digital Trailblazer, I share several of my stories of helping organizations define their agile ways of working.

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How Agile Delivery Managers Collaborate with Product Managers and Drive DevOps Standards

Social, Agile and Transformation

Agile and Scrum teams work with product owners to define requirements and prioritize backlogs, then have the team/tech leads that guide them from commitment to done every sprint and release.

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Enterprise Agile Development - Why you still need Project Managers.

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 Enterprise Agile Development - Why you still need Project Managers. Ive been asked lately about the role of project managers on agile or SCRUM teams. Project managers provide them.

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Agile 2: A New Hope

Dataconomy

On February 11-13, 2001, a group of senior programmers, project managers, and technical analysts met at the Snowbird ski resort in Utah. Contributors Featured Technology & IT agile development kanban scrum

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What Agile Teams Can Learn From 1st Graders

Social, Agile and Transformation

When I saw this hanging in my daughter''s classroom I knew it needed to be shared with Scrum Masters and other agile team members. So much what makes agile teams successful is dependent on their collaboration - establishing a shared understanding of priorities, solving problems, developing solutions, resolving blocks, and improving practices. agile planning agile software development it management organizational change project management software development

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Agile vs. Waterfall: Which Should A CIO Choose?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Which software development methodology is best? As a CIO I suspect that you are well aware that there are a number of different ways that your IT teams can go about developing software (and doing a lot of other things). It all begins with the waterfall approach to developing software.

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No Scrum Master? No Problem - 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 No Scrum Master? How should Enterprises fill the Scrum Master Role? Ive blogged a bit on Product Owners in the Enterprise and Why Project Managers are still needed , but what about Scrum Masters?

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The Scrum Master - A role or responsibility?

Social, Agile and Transformation

At a recent industry event for publishers, I sat at a table with a number of agile development leaders and we discussed the ScrumMaster role. agile software development project management software developmentDo you have a dedicated ScrumMaster? For the most part, the answer came back as a ‘no’ for a number of philosophical and funding reasons. Agile practitioners love to talk about roles and responsibilities. You need a product owner, largely responsible for.

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Top Ten Thoughts for SCRUM Newbies - Social, Agile, and.

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 Top Ten Thoughts for SCRUM Newbies. My colleagues and I from BusinessWeek gave a presentation last week covering our agile planning and development process and ended with an intro to SCRUM by @silviogalea. it management. (34).

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Top 7 Ingredients to Establishing an Agile Development Practice.

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 Top 7 Ingredients to Establishing an Agile Development Practice. More and more teams and companies are considering agile processes, SCRUM, Extreme, or hybrids to either pilot new initiatives or to establish the practice.

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Four Phases of Maturing Enterprise Agile Development

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 Four Phases of Maturing Enterprise Agile Development. Are you a technology executive looking to adopt or migrate to an agile software development practice? Also, see my Top Ten Thoughts for SCRUM Newbies. it management. (34).

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Agile Process Improvement Using. Agile! - Social, Agile, and.

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 When I talk to leaders and teams about agile and scrum, they get the basics right away - sprint length, stand ups, commitments, getting to done, and basic backlog management. Who should be the scrum master? it management. (34).

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Adopting Agile Development - The role of the CIO - Social, Agile.

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 Adopting Agile Development - The role of the CIO. First, the CIO must be able to negotiate priorities and develop a path for consistent delivery - which is why I thing the CIO loves Agile (or should love it). crisis management. (3).

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How to Measure Software Quality?

Future of CIO

For a development manager/Scrum Master - it may mean how is the code developed and what are the deployment standards. For the developer, it may mean - how easy is it to get started on an assignment? Measure the ‘Health’ of Software Project The point is, if you don't know what exactly mean by Software Quality, you will never be able to justify the business value of that. CIO Debate IT Performance Management KPIs Project Management Quality

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Larger Scale Agile Development - 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 Larger Scale Agile Development. Back in January, we had one team at BusinessWeek practicing agile software development. But we managed priority changes and integration issues to get a product out. crisis management. (3).

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Getting Enterprise Executives to buy in to an Agile Development.

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 Getting Enterprise Executives to buy in to an Agile Development Lifecycle. People have asked me, "how do you get executive buy in on moving a department or team to an agile development software lifecycle "? crisis management. (3).

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Offshore Agile Development - Totally Feasible! - Social, Agile, and.

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 Offshore Agile Development - Totally Feasible! I just returned from Chennai, India where I had the pleasure of working with a relatively small team of developers. Finally, agile development is always a work in progress.

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Good, Fast, Cheap: Can CIOs Have them All

Future of CIO

Holiday season actually stimulates creativity, and spurs optimism; from one of IT performance debates: “good cheap, fast for enterprise application development, which two should CIO pick?”,--many commentators set positive tunes and think it possible to have them all. If you follow the philosophy right and manage it well, all three parameters are available to you. Most traditional software projects fail because the business requirements change before the project is completed.

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Maturing agile development without a maturity model - Social, Agile.

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 Maturing agile development without a maturity model. Let’s go into these goals briefly: Organizational change – Consider processes before and after agile development. Next post: SCRUM for Process Maturity.

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Is Your Enterprise Ready for Agile Development? - Social, Agile.

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 Is Your Enterprise Ready for Agile Development? Agile proponents did themselves a favor adopting the generic agile development to represent processes like SCRUM, Extreme Programming, etc. agile software development. (56).

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Deutsche Telekom uses TM Forum Open APIs for European unification

TM Forum

They were able to cut the time in half, and now that the APIs and ways of working are established, future projects are predicted to see the same, if not better results. PROJECT MANAGER/SCRUM MASTER, DOMINIK PERIŠKI?, Privacy Management. Customer Management.

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Measuring Costs in Agile Delivery - 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 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. agile software development. (56). crisis management. (3).

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Federal Government Signals Interest In Several Key Leading Edge Technologies

CTOvision

As technologists we found the questions informative and insightful and even inspiring (it was great seeing the government prove they are tracking developments in the tech world). Autonomic computing is a self-managing computing model named after, and patterned on, the human body’s autonomic nervous system. Agile Software Development. Today’s top trend with software development leaders is continuous development. By Bob Gourley.

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Business Responsibilities working with Agile Teams Part 2 - Social.

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 See Business Responsibilities working with Agile Teams Part 1 where I cover some important responsibilities: Dedicating time to define requirements, setting reasonable customer expectations, and developing a methodology for prioritizing.

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Agile in 2008 to Twitter, Cloud Computing and Publishing in 2009.

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 Looking back to 2008, I shifted this blog from covering startups and issues for CTOs (re: Startup CTO ) and covered a lot about the agile software development life cycle. agile software development. (56). crisis management. (3).

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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? Labels: about me , agile software development , innovation. agile software development. (56). crisis management. (3). it management. (34).

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Agile Product Owners in the Enterprise - Social, Agile, and.

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 I really like this post Agile Product Owner and Agile Product Manager in the Enterprise that highlights the organizational issue of trying to staff agile product owners in the enterprises technology organization. crisis management. (3).

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How To Get a Team to Think Agile - 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 Its a smart team, but they are immediately jumping into solving problems and developing artifacts. But the same benefits in using agile for development can also be applied to planning. agile software development. (56).

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Content Agility at Marklogic's Digital Publishing Symposium - Social.

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 I then discussed how BusinessWeek moved to an agile development process (specifically, SCRUM), to build its newest product, the Business Exchange. agile software development. (56). crisis management. (3).

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Agile Does Not Need A Maturity Model - Social, Agile, and.

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 Now theres nothing wrong with the article or some of the concepts, but I feel compelled to throw in my two cents on maturity models in general and especially applied to agile software development. agile software development. (56).

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My Time Leading Tech at BusinessWeek - Social, Agile, and.

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 My favorite business topics include CIO , Agile Software Development , Enterprise 2.0 , Open Source Software and Social Networking. We established an on/offshore agile development and delivery model. agile software development. (56).

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Turning Good Ideas into Operational Reality - Social, Agile, and.

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 agile software development. (56). crisis management. (3). it management. (34). offshore development. (6). product management. (26). project management. (50). software development. (51).

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How does your SaaS vendor respond to the scalability question.

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 If you’re lucky they’ll tell you about their software stack and then throw in a bit about their software development life cycle. How do they manage network operations? Labels: enterprise 2.0 , it management , SaaS.

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Business Responsibilities working with Agile Teams Part 1 - Social.

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 I enjoy talking to General Managers, Product Managers, and other members of a business teams about the benefits of going agile. But I warn business managers that with agile comes some new responsibilities. it management. (34).

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Evaluating SaaS Vendors ? Understanding Business Models and.

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 Labels: enterprise 2.0 , it management , SaaS. One of the things I hear mentioned a lot when it comes to SaaS is the supposed huge up-front cost in getting the application developed in the first place. agile software development.

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