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

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It wasn’t long ago that nearly all communications service providers (CSPs) viewed IT as a cost center rather than as central to business strategy. The company’s IT organization replaced some waterfall processes with iterative Agile processes managed in scrums and implemented in sprints.

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How To Get a Team to Think Agile - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

Its a smart team, but they are immediately jumping into solving problems and developing artifacts. The problem is, using agile process (scrum specifically) for planning, problem solving, developing a strategy, documenting an architecture requires some discipline and thinking a little differently. software development. (51).

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

Social, Agile and Transformation

Let’s go into these goals briefly: Organizational change – Consider processes before and after agile development. The product backlog needs upstream mechanisms to set product strategy and vision, develop high level product requirements, conduct user experience testing, and set priorities. software development. (51).

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

Social, Agile and Transformation

Here are some of my tips on fostering "useful" idea generation so that the organization can implement the best ideas: Communicate the business strategy - I think its ok for some ideas to be totally "green" and separate from strategy, but most corporations invest a lot of time, money, and expertise into developing a strategy.

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

Social, Agile and Transformation

Whats more, a good product manager should embrace this structure as it frees him/her up from getting in the weeds on implementation and allows them to focus more on product strategy. software development. (51). web development. (12). Top Ten Thoughts for SCRUM Newbies. product management. (26). social media. (3).

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