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A blueprint for successfully executing business-aligned IT strategies

CIO

Adopting agile methodologies for flexibility and adaptation The Greek philosopher Heraclitus famously stated, “Change is the only constant.” In today’s business environment, agile methodologies have become indispensable for maintaining alignment between IT and business strategies.

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3 things CIOs must do now to accurately hit net-zero targets

CIO

However, the latest and largest UNGC-Accenture CEO study revealed that 91% of CEOs report insufficient technology solutions as a barrier to seizing opportunities in the net-zero transition, building resilience in their organization, and overcoming current volatility in the business landscape.

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How a Psychologically Safe Working Environment Can Help Your Organization to See More Innovation and Growth

Agile Alliance

This talk covers the following topics: 1) What, why and how and OKR - Psychological Safety check for Agile teams helped our organization 2) Quick tips and best practices to improve the Safety net for your agile organization MEMBER? PLEASE LOG IN. To view the content on this page, you must be a Member of … Continued.

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Scrum@Scale at GOTO Copenhagen and NETS Agile Meetup (slides)

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Of particular interest were two well-attended meetups where I presented a Scrum@Scale overview on how this non-prescriptive framework targets business agility, using Scrum across an entire organization to increase company valuation and stock price. The first meeting was at the NETS Agile Meetup and the second GOTO Copenhagen.

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Encouraging Innovation in an Established Product Culture

Speaker: Richard Cardran, Chief Creative Officer and VP Strategy, HIA Technologies

We'll examine the importance of UX and user-centric feature analysis, the adaptation of Agile Methodologies to the creative process, as well as a way to drive successful culture change for setting expectations and winning approvals with cross-functional stakeholders. Overcome product bias, feature orthodoxy, and embrace simplicity.

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Thoma Bravo buys cybersecurity vendor Proofpoint for $12.3B in cash

TechCrunch

It also however reported a GAAP net loss of $45.3 That’s narrowed from a net loss of $66.8 million a year ago, but is still a net loss. Non-GAAP net income for the first quarter of 2021 was $31.5 The news comes at the same time that Proofpoint had released its Q1 earnings , in which it reported revenues of $287.8

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AoAD2 Chapter 4: Investing in Agility

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Investing in Agility. One of the recurring themes in this book is that, in order to be Agile, your organization has to buy in to the underlying Agile philosophy. They’re the secret to Agile success.

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