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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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Benchmarks for Healthy Agile Planning that gets User Stories Written and Estimated

Social, Agile and Transformation

Agile practices, and scrum in particular are really strong at prescribing steps to go from sprint start to end. Teams practicing scrum will usually have a commitment meeting at the start of the sprint to decide the scope of work they aim to complete and daily standups during the sprint to discuss status and blocks.

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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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SAFe certification: launch your Scaled Agile Framework career

CIO Business Intelligence

Then you’ll need to meet the prerequisites for the certification(s) you choose. Once you’ve identified the SAFe training and certification providers that meet your goals, you’ll need to review the materials, study guides, and take any available practice tests. The 45-question exam tests candidates’ ability to: Facilitate Scrum events.

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

TM Forum

The company’s IT organization replaced some waterfall processes with iterative Agile processes managed in scrums and implemented in sprints. The team also began meeting with business stakeholders regularly and educating them about how Agile works. But when you get specific, nobody can agree on what it means.”

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3 force multipliers for digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Assemble a team of Scrum coaches, and they’re likely to debate how much empowerment self-organizing teams require, when to estimate user stories, and whether sprints remain relevant when devops teams are automating deployments with CI/CD. Today, many CIOs must determine which agile tools to use and where to create practice standards.

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