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

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The company’s IT organization replaced some waterfall processes with iterative Agile processes managed in scrums and implemented in sprints. But a major focus is also on reskilling – not only to acquire tech skills, but also to develop business skills and what Lowell refers to as “human” skills.

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Enterprise Agile Development - Why you still need Project Managers.

Social, Agile and Transformation

Enterprise Agile Development - Why you still need Project Managers. Ive been asked lately about the role of project managers on agile or SCRUM teams. Some specifics: Scrum and agile are very team and inward facing. They can often perform data, workflow, and other analytics that your development team can manage. (30).

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

Social, Agile and Transformation

Innovation – Innovation touches a broad set of concerns, so here’s how I would summarize: Are you researching, prototyping, and developing solutions in the most strategic areas of your product or service and leveraging the best talent you have available? Next post: SCRUM for Process Maturity. software development. (51).

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

Social, Agile and Transformation

I spoke about how the publishing industry is at a crossroads: Traditional media faces revenue challenges Web 2.0 startups challenged, short runway on funding, needs to become cash positive Many technology options for web 2.0, Labels: about me , agile software development , business exchange , content agility , web 2.0.

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

Social, Agile and Transformation

How will resources be trained? 5) Help the team make it successful - Make sure all team members have a basic foundation in an agile (probably scrum) process. I highly recommend training and ideally an agile coach if you can afford it, but at minimum make sure you have a team lead (scrum master.) software development. (51).

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Evaluating SaaS Vendors ? Understanding Business Models and.

Social, Agile and Transformation

When you enter the data in it in terms of the amount and time you are spending on promoting your website, it calculates the total resources in terms of cost you are accruing for your website promotion. software development. (51). web development. (12). Top Ten Thoughts for SCRUM Newbies. Recent Posts.

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