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Vanguard's investment in agile pays employee engagement dividends
John Marcante, CIO of Vanguard, discusses how agile development and product management are driving a culture of engagement and business outcomes at the large global investment advisory firm.
Top 6 agile tools for project management
Keep your projects humming with these tools geared for teams committed to agile practices and workflows.
Top 17 project management methodologies — and how to pick the best for success
Choosing the right project management methodology for the job is essential. Our guide to evaluating project management methodologies will ensure you pick the perfect fit for your next project.
What is Kanban? Workflow management simplified
Kanban helps organizations focus on specific tasks until completion. This simple workflow management system is an effective method for fostering collaboration and productivity.
What is SAFe? The Scaled Agile Framework explained
If your organization is seeking efficient project delivery, decreased time-to-market, and increased stakeholder value, then the Scaled Agile Framework may be right for you.
How Zulily targets shoppers with hyper-personalized offers
The online retailer turns squads of developers, data scientists and product managers loose to build machine learning software and other critical business capabilities.
Scaled agile helps modernize Guardian's operations
Guardian CIO Dean Del Vecchio has reduced technical debt, instituted a scaled agile development model, and embraced the cloud in a bid to vault rivals in the insurance industry.
10 reasons software projects are slower than we expect
Despite efforts to re-engineer software development with new methodologies and tools, projects still warp time lines thanks to bureaucracy, new demands, and the nature of code.
5 outdated technology practices that doom digital transformations
What IT terms and concepts are dated – and what ideas are replacing them? More importantly, how do these outdated concepts doom and derail digital transformation programs?
TIAA accelerates software delivery with IT-business union
TIAA built a new platform to accelerate the way it brings on new clients. The system, called Refactor, uses scaled agile, DevOps and domain-driven microservices.
What is NoOps? The quest for fully automated IT operations
Automation has IT leaders eyeing the possibility of environments with no hands-on operations work. But this evolution of DevOps may be more pipedream than practical reality.
IT as a product: Secrets of successful launches
To improve efficiency and user outcomes, organizations are jettisoning IT projects in favor of an agile, product-based approach to delivery IT services. IT leaders share their hard-earned tips on making it work.
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The enterprise architect’s ecosystem in an agile enterprise
Agile organizations are becoming more common because of the increased appreciation for their transformational gains. With this movement, we are assisting at the emergence of a new breed of enterprise architects that are becoming...
At Mitel, kaizen proves key to streamlining business processes
Mitel CIO Jamshid Rezaei turned to the Japanese practice of kaizen prizing continuous improvement over wholesale change. Up next: leveraging AI, IoT as the future of cloud-based communications.
What is an enterprise wide agile transformation and why CIOs should lead it
More CEOs are considering enterprise wide agile transformations, enabling a significant opportunity for CIOs to lead their organization’s process, culture and mindset changes.
Scrum master certification: Top 9 certs for agile pros
A Scrum master certification can prove you have the knowledge and competency to lead agile teams successfully.
Making the shift to a startup mentality
For enterprises seeking an innovative edge, a startup’s approach can reap dividends. But the road to change is challenging and not for every organization.
