Category: Delivery Leader
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Seize Real Advantages: 7 Urgent Reasons to Revisit Agile for the AI Era
Organizations need to revisit their agile practices due to increased complexity and changing business expectations, exacerbated by AI advancements. Key issues include fragmented management, lack of user adoption, DevOps fatigue, excessive roles, inconsistent outcomes, and AI productivity not translating into business impact. Evolving agile approaches is essential for success in today’s landscape.
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Top 7 Leadership Mistakes When Assigning People to Agile Teams
CIOs and CTOs often face challenges in staffing agile teams effectively, making compromises to meet objectives and stakeholder demands. Successful agile team management requires clear leadership roles and alignment with business goals. Key mistakes include misassigning team members, creating operational silos, and failing to adequately train leaders, which can hinder team performance and innovation.
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How My Breakthrough Course Will Empower Digital Transformation Leaders in the AI Era
Digital transformation is now more crucial than ever in the AI era, shifting from a project mindset to an ongoing strategy for organizations. The introduction of AI enhances the need for continuous evolution in business operations, with leadership programs focusing on integrating AI, facilitating culture change, and tracking meaningful outcomes.
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What Smart CIOs Know About DevOps That Everyone Else Misses
The evolving landscape of DevOps practices, requires CIOs to prioritize and clarity implementation objectives. It highlights the complexities introduced by various methodologies and the importance of striking a balance between necessary practices and overinvestment. Simplifying requirements and focusing on minimal viable practices can yield significant benefits for organizations.
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How to Drive a Smarter, Innovative, and Predictable Agile Delivery Model
Many organizations struggle with evolving their agile delivery model, leading to missed deadlines and customer dissatisfaction. The key issue is teams rush into solving problems without proper planning. To improve, simplify the approach by developing a clear vision, fostering collaboration, and enhancing change management while avoiding jargon and rigid frameworks.
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Avoid a Nightmare: 10 Important DevSecOps Practice Non-Negotiables
CIOs establish DevSevOps non-negotiables to shape organizational culture and governance, aimed at balancing development agility with security and operational stability. Key non-negotiables include balancing backlogs, defining user needs, ensuring security by design, standardizing production paths, fostering collaboration, reviewing software components, preventing shared access, prioritizing security training, continuous testing, and addressing team burnout.
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Agile Solution Architecture: How to Empower Debates, Resolve Disputes, and Make Decisions
One problem leads to many solutions, which can drive architects, DevOps, and data science teams to debate and dispute platforms and architectures.
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Breakthrough AI and DevOps Innovations: Insights from Pioneering CTOs
StarCIO shares their breakthrough innovations covering responsible AI, site reliability engineering, and DevOps scalability.
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7 Ways Amazing Digital Trailblazers Can Market Their Team’s Success
7 ideas for Digital Trailblazers on marketing their team’s successes and reinforcing change management programs.
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Why SaaS and Low-Code Need AI for Helpful Technical Support
In developing the Digital Trailblazer Community v2.0 I ran inti many tech support issues in low-code and SaaS. Here’s how AI can help.
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10 Interview Questions for Digital Trailblazers: Find Amazing Candidates and Land Exciting Jobs
Digital Trailblazer interview questions for job seekers and hiring leaders on enthusiasm, authenticity, creativity, and curiosity.
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Empower Agile Teams: Leadership Strategies That Inspire People, Not Micromanage
Digital trailblazers can inspire struggling agile teams and must avoid falling back to command-and-control tactics. Here’s how to inspire an agile culture.