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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.

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Project management: Tips, tools, best practices

CIO Business Intelligence

There are many, often overlapping approaches to managing projects, the most popular of which are waterfall, agile, hybrid, critical path method, and critical chain project management , among others. Agile , which includes subvariants such as Lean and Scrum, is increasing in popularity and is being utilized in virtually every industry.

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Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

CIO Business Intelligence

The result, for example, is no more roles such as scrum master and release train engineer, while project managers and program managers have returned. “So It’s also about creating different types of career paths, whether becoming a manager or specializing as a software engineer.

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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

To do so, CIOs must continuously improve their product management, program management, and delivery capabilities to wow customers and deliver competitive advantages, all while steering clear of surefire DX mistakes such as prioritizing too many initiatives and underinvesting in developing digital trailblazers.

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Top 15 project management certifications

CIO Business Intelligence

The exam covers topics including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP), and test-driven development (TDD). It’s a certification aimed at senior project managers, agile professionals, product managers and owners, Scrum masters, and business analysts. Program Management Professional (PgMP).

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How BUiLT unites Black IT pros and builds equity

CIO Business Intelligence

Purdy, for example, completed his Professional Scrum Master certification through BUiLT. BUiLT gets asked to help when DEI teams and recruiters are frustrated in providing qualified, diverse candidates to hiring managers, but the company’s actual hiring practices don’t match the tone from the top to be more inclusive.

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Product-based IT: A blueprint for success

CIO Business Intelligence

Trust One is also knee deep in transforming its IT organization and operating model, transitioning away from a program management office (PMO) to a product-centered organization. “No matter how agile you are, you are solving different problems for customers in different ways unless you are organized by product and are customer backed.”