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Digital transformation’s fundamental change management mistake

CIO Business Intelligence

Underpinning these initiatives is a slew of technology capabilities and strategies aimed at accelerating delivery cycles, such as establishing product management disciplines, building cloud architectures, developing devops capabilities, and fostering agile cultures. This dip delays when the business can start realizing the value delivered.

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What is SAFe? A framework for scaling business agility

CIO Business Intelligence

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) explained The Scaled Agile Framework encompasses a set of principles, processes, and best practices that helps larger organizations adopt agile methodologies , such as Lean, Kanban, and Scrum , to deliver high-quality products and services faster.

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7 tell-tale signs of fake agile

CIO Business Intelligence

When the focus shifts to granular facets of agiles, like Scrum ceremonies, instead of actual content and context, agile’s true principles are lost, says Prashant Kelker, lead partner for digital sourcing and solutions, Americas, at global technology research and advisory firm ISG. Leaders must be committed to the enablement of agile teams.”.

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Kevin Lowell’s appointment as UScellular’s Chief People Officer puts IT in the limelight

TM Forum

Become a partner with the business rather than an order-taker – Here, IT applied Agile concepts by sitting down with business stakeholders early on during the service development process and ideating with them, asking lots of questions about customers’ preferences, for example.

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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

But speaking to many IT leaders, there are often gaps between how IT runs Scrum, Kanban, or other agile practices and what CIOs need in order to achieve digital transformation objectives. One example paradigm to avoid in defining agile culture is “we’re not agile enough” without aligning process improvement to business objectives.

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3 force multipliers for digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Examples are initiatives to improve both customer and employee experiences or others that deliver a combination of innovation and security enhancements. Here’s an example of a non-multiplying initiative; a sequential phased delivery familiar to CIOs. Apply agile when developing low-code and no-code experiences.

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Streamlining IT for agility

CIO Business Intelligence

Here, agility is essential, and smart IT leaders are doubling down on efforts to streamline IT, whether that involves reprioritizing projects and realigning the IT portfolio, rationalizing applications and pursuing cloud-native approaches, increasing automation through DevOps or AIOps adoption, or overhauling the structure of IT operations.

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