N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

As executive search consultants, we focus on understanding and optimizing businesses’ intended transformations and how they are shaping strategic responses to industry-level changes. To tackle these issues, for the past five years, the new trend in executive hiring has been the Chief Transformation Officer (CTO) role.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

One possible solution is to embrace the agile methodology of software development. Agile calls for collaboration among cross-functional teams as well as end users, and promotes adaptive planning, evolutionary development, continual improvement, flexibility in responding to changes in requirements and early delivery of products.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 26, 2012

I've done four Free CTO Consulting Sessions in the past month with startup founders who all had run into variations of the same problem. Instead, what they had was a contract that promised Agile Software Development with Rapid Iterations and an incredibly vague list of features. They couldn't plan their business.

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CIO

AUGUST 6, 2024

Therefore, always-lurking tech debt gets put on the backburner, says Daniel Saroff, group vice president for consulting and research at IDC. You need to have an architecture, design, and plan that allows you to course correct along the way. It’s not a sexy subject,” he says. It’s not a subject the board are pounding their fists over.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

“We were able to use our CTO to lead a team of six devs from the Appetiser team, with occasional UX/UI, product management and project management as needed. These squads work together in an agile environment and scale up or down based on the needs of the project. Help TechCrunch find the best software consultants for startups.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

EA helps organizations structure IT projects and policies to achieve desired business results, to stay agile and resilient in the face of rapid change, and to stay on top of industry trends and disruptions using architecture principles and practices, a process also known as enterprise architectural planning (EAP).

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Capgemini

JULY 23, 2021

Of course, we need to be careful to not over-romanticize the solution. Keeping the use case for the rapid application development in place is key to determining the architectural agility of your organization. An increase in company agility. At Capgemini, we have consultants who are masters on various low-code platforms.

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CIO

JANUARY 26, 2023

This is where Saurabh Mittal, CTO at Mumbai-based Piramal Capital & Housing Finance, wants IT leaders to make a careful distinction. Enterprise technology leaders must differentiate between cost and investment if they want to make the most of their limited budgets. We obviously won’t cut investments here.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

The increasing pace of technology advances AI is just the latest, and perhaps most prominent example of emerging technologies that have disrupted organizational roadmaps. But the ever-increasing pace of technology advances could upset well-laid plans with greater frequency in the future. 1 challenge listed.

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LeanEssays

JULY 16, 2015

“We are a conservative company, so we are just starting our agile transformation,” the manager told me. It struck me that the reason an organization opts for late adoption is to learn from those who go first – from the companies that bushwhacked through the agile swamp a decade ago, or the organizations that followed a few years later.

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

Delayed decision-making Bhadresh Patel, chief digital officer at global consulting firm RGP, sees organization’s showing more caution than usual. More than ever, we have to be agile and be unafraid of waste. How can we start something knowing we might have to change or stop it tomorrow? And yet we must.

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Codegiant

AUGUST 14, 2020

Agile vs Scrum: Differences & Similarities?—?The The Complete Review [2020] From the desk of a brilliant weirdo #1 : If you are using Scrum it’s safe to say that you are also using Agile. On the other hand, if you are using an Agile framework, that may not necessarily be Scrum. Without further ado: What Is Agile (Overview)?

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UruIT

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Find out 8 insightful conferences for CTOs that you should attend in 2019. As a CTO of UruIT, a nearshore development agency , I’ve seen first-hand how being a lifelong learner can lead to exciting opportunities for me and for my company. If you’re a CTO, I highly recommend attending a conference for all of the above reasons.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

import Figure from '@/components/global/figure.astro'; import Agile2009ConferenceLogo from 'src/content/blog/agile-2009-roundup/images/agile-2009-conference-logo.png'; Ive been home for a few days and have some time to digest what I learned. Free one-on-one consulting. Move the Free one-on-one consulting to the open jam.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

they need a developer more than they need a CTO. What happens when you have a really good developer is that a gap exists where you may not ask the right questions to specify the right system, consider appropriate 3rd party technologies, etc. Of course, you probably are going to provide more of a feature list.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 12, 2014

And of course to seek and leverage context. The next panel was the Education of the Analyst, withCarmen Medina, Specialist Leader, Deloitte Consulting; Ed Mornston, Director, Human Development Directorate, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency; andDr. He urged that agility is key and needs must be anticipated.

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CTOvision

JUNE 15, 2015

“Spark, together with IBM, provides a highly scalable platform for Optibus, making it easy for us to expand our software as a service offering into new markets, and helps us simplify deployment, maintenance and application development for transportation companies worldwide," said Amos Haggiag, Optibus CTO and Co-Founder.

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CIO

JANUARY 3, 2024

Enterprises were up in arms when people discovered the fine print this summer and Zoom quickly reversed course. If you’re not flexible and agile enough, your clients will move away,” he says. There are now more than 200 foundation models, says Lian Jye Su, chief analyst for applied intelligence at tech consultancy Omdia.

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d2iq

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

But once it’s ready to be served, it requires infrastructure of its own with monitoring of course. The overall process needs to be managed, the data and model need to be tracked, and there are of course generic components, such as resource management, configuration management, and automation. ML engineer: Feedback loops.

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Apiumhub

AUGUST 10, 2023

Silver Sponsors IsaQB The International Software Architecture Qualification Board (iSAQB®) is an international association of leading software architecture experts and companies from throughout the industry, with the aim to set global knowledge standards in software architecture for consulting, training, academia, and organizations alike.

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CircleCI

MAY 21, 2020

The typical characteristics of this type of culture are all the things you see in agile and lean books/courses: No blame culture. Chris Howe-Jones is a consultant CTO, Software Architect, Lean/Agile Coach, Developer, and Technical Navigator for DevCycle. Empowerment of teams/individuals.

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Apiumhub

JANUARY 14, 2021

He speaks internationally about these topics and agile-friendly implementation technology and architecture. He provides in-depth consulting and training in those areas. He excels at building highly functional Lean/Agile organizations and designing and building robust, highly scalable software suitable for agile environments.

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Apiumhub

JUNE 2, 2022

Build a Serverless Web App for a Theme Park Building and Deploying Cloud Native Applications with gRPC Kotlin & Kubernetes Elastic, Agile and Adaptive Leadership for Technical Leaders Advanced Deployment Pipeline Techniques Learning Kotlin/JS by Building Web Apps in React & Redux And many other hands-on workshops, check them here.

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OpenCredo

JULY 13, 2018

Engineers in an agile development team generally do not have much control over this scenario, but as a consultant it is something I would definitely want to highlight in order to give Project Positron the best chance of success in its organisation. This isn’t the only organisational problem an engineering consultant may encounter.

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Apiumhub

MARCH 26, 2019

Prior to forming R7K, Michael was the Chief Scientist of Obtiva and a consultant with Object Mentor International. Over the past 20 years he has consulted with hundreds of organizations, supporting them with general software design issues, process change and code revitalization. George Fairbanks. Dave Farley.

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Apiumhub

MAY 26, 2022

In addition to hands-on consulting, Mark has authored numerous technical books and videos, including his two latest books Fundamentals of Software Architecture and Software Architecture: The Hard Parts that he co-authored with Neal Ford. João Rosa is Principal Consultant and Interim CTO at Xebia. Before joining ThoughtWorks.

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BrainStation Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Gil Sheinfeld, CTO of freelancer marketplace Fiverr, agrees with Sheridan. One of the first demands this shift placed on businesses was for drastically improved agility. Check out BrainStation’s new Digital Leadership & Innovation Certificate Course. Since COVID started, the world has been forced to work differently.

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Capgemini

JULY 26, 2023

Compliance and agility by design​ There’s a common fear that safety and compliance slow down go to market. Of course, extra steps take extra time. Pharma and MedTech companies will speed development and improve quality if they adopt two changes: agile processes combined with modularity by design. Let’s dive in. Yes and no.

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Apiumhub

AUGUST 12, 2021

His main work is software development consulting, which combines actually writing code with advising clients on how to do that better. Developer Advocate with 15+ years experience consulting for many different customers, in a wide range of contexts (such as telecoms, banking, insurances, large retail and public sector).

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 17, 2023

Where can we apply what’s emerging to make our product better, increase our agility and effectiveness, reduce costs? And of course, they have zero understanding of anything at all. The fact they can do even a fraction of the things they can do is, quite frankly, unbelievable. Stay up on what’s emerging.

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LaunchDarkly

MAY 20, 2020

And we can see obviously, it’s software not hardware, but we can see this in great effect in first the move from waterfall to XP and agile, where waterfall said, “We’ll plan the whole thing, we’ll build it, we’ll deliver it to the customer.” Here’s where software shines. And that’s great.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

APRIL 2, 2020

Drawing on 20 years of Agile experience, Ron narrows down the three root causes of low-performing teams as well as solutions that managers can implement to improve them. Of course humming has a variety of means, but when you think about a software development team that hums, what kind of attributes come to mind? Show Notes.

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Codegiant

APRIL 21, 2020

The Waterfall Model The V Model The Iterative Model The Spiral Model The Agile Model The Scrum Methodology The XP Methodology The Rad Model The Software Prototype Model The Big Bang Model Which SDLC Model is the right for you? The Agile model. The Agile Model The SDLC Agile model is actually one of the most popular SDLC methods today.

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LaunchDarkly

JANUARY 14, 2020

At the November Test in Production Meetup in San Francisco, LaunchDarkly’s Yoz Grahame (a Developer Advocate) moderated a panel discussion featuring Larry Lancaster, Founder and CTO at Zebrium, and Ramin Khatibi, a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and infrastructure consultant. ” – Ramin Khatibi, an SRE and infra consultant.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

Introduction People Internal Quality Lovability Visibility Agility Profitability How are you measuring productivity? Were an organization thats steeped in Agile thinking. Agile only succeeds if the organization really gets behind it. You can share these ideas as an examples of what to do to support your Agile teams.

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Codegiant

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Erin Koss, CEO at Syte Consulting Group. Whether you are a marketing manager, a CTO, or an HR, Filestage has all the features your team needs to finish every project with success. Whether you are an Agile or Waterfall fan, Wrike can be adjusted to fit your needs. Personalize your dashboard. Tons of integrations. Instant updates.

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Atomic Spin

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Not only that, but at a software consultancy like Atomic, it’s also a prophecy for how the engagement will end and deliver on your brand promise. It serves an a GTD-style inbox for all of the new insights and concerns that spring up over the course of a project.

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