Luis Goncalves

APRIL 11, 2025

Learn more about the key differences between scale-ups and start-ups Why You Need a Framework for Scaling a Business Many businesses fail not because of poor products or insufficient market demand, but due to ineffective management of rapid growth. Companies maintaining agility during scaling can seize opportunities rigid organizations miss.

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CIO

APRIL 15, 2025

The idea was coined by legendary programmer Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto, and he laid it out succinctly at the OOPSLA conference in 1992 : Shipping first-time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with refactoring. So, is technical debt bad?

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CIO

JANUARY 7, 2025

Transformational CIOs continuously invest in their operating model by developing product management, design thinking, agile, DevOps, change management, and data-driven practices. CIOs must also drive knowledge management, training, and change management programs to help employees adapt to AI-enabled workflows.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Once the province of the data warehouse team, data management has increasingly become a C-suite priority, with data quality seen as key for both customer experience and business performance. But along with siloed data and compliance concerns , poor data quality is holding back enterprise AI projects.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

” This point was seconded by other survey respondents, so we reached out to Drach and his team to learn more. More specifically, Solwey provides consulting in all stages of software design and development strategy and execution. How is your team structured? Why did you choose the boutique consultancy model?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

On a bad day, we get CrowdStrike…or worse. Decisions made in isolation lead to inefficiencies, slower responses to market changes, and a lack of agility that stifles innovation. Architects help organizations remain agile, innovative, and aligned by bridging gaps between strategy and technology. Invest in leadership development.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

These outdated systems are not only costly to maintain but also hinder the integration of new technologies, agility, and business value delivery. Solution: Invest in continuous learning and development programs to upskill the existing workforce. Q: What do you get when you add new technology to bad processes?

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Leonard Poor stakeholder management can also lead to a lack of buy-in, miscommunication, and, ultimately, the failure of crucial initiatives. I’ve seen projects falter when IT leaders fail to recognize non-traditional stakeholders like marketing teams using unsanctioned tools,” says Leonard. “In

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The same is not true, sadly, for many agile project management and development initiatives. Too often, an organization may launch something that looks like an agile program, calls itself an agile program, claims to operate like an agile program, yet really isn’t an agile program in the least.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Business leaders expect IT to develop new products, improve customer experiences, automate workflows, and deliver new artificial intelligence capabilities. Many IT teams use agile methodologies to iteratively deliver feature-rich releases, improve capabilities, address technical debt, and experiment with emerging technologies.

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CIO

JANUARY 22, 2025

According to Leon Roberge, CIO for Toshiba America Business Solutions and Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, technology leaders should become more visible to the business and lead by example to their teams. Fernandes says his team has made it a point to only invest where the business also invests to avoid a black hole of IT spending.

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CIO

MAY 20, 2024

To keep pace with the growing complexity of software development, organizations have spent years working to implement agile practices into their developer experience. It enables teams to deliver value faster, with greater quality and predictability, and greater aptitude to respond to change.

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The Crazy Programmer

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

But, 2022 is a different scenario in software development teams. Today called developers, professional software engineers are aware of the importance of soft skills. With soft skills, developers and programmers are well-equipped to utilize their complex skills to the fullest extent. Creativity. Communication.

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CIO

MAY 2, 2023

CIOs can’t be involved in every strategic discussion or dive into every initiative’s details, but there are several high-level signs that indicate a digital transformation may be destined to underperform, especially as CIOs add initiatives. But are product managers developing market- and customer-driven roadmaps and prioritized backlogs?

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Gartner reported that on average only 54% of AI models move from pilot to production: Many AI models developed never even reach production. So then let me re-iterate: why, still, are teams having troubles launching Machine Learning models into production? Big part of the reason lies in collaboration between teams. What a waste!

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As a result, many new car companies are created and competition increases, says Tobias Altehed, who leads Volvo Cars’ digital organization and sits on the company’s extended management team. We need to take greater responsibility for the development of our digital products and not act as an internal supplier to our business.”

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CIO

JUNE 19, 2024

Three years ago BSH Home Appliances completely rearranged its IT organization, creating a digital platform services team consisting of three global platform engineering teams, and four regional platform and operations teams. We see this as a strategic priority to improve developer experience and productivity,” he says.

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CIO

MARCH 7, 2023

But the faster transition often caused underperforming apps, greater security risks, higher costs, and fewer business outcomes, forcing IT to address these issues before starting app modernizations. Today, many CIOs must determine which agile tools to use and where to create practice standards.

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TechBeacon

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

As a new product owner, application programming interfaces (APIs) and technical stories were my weak spots. I struggled for a long time to know where to start, what to include, how to communicate the necessary things to the development team, and how detailed to be.

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Xebia

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Many teams are using Atlassian’s JIRA as an issue tracker, which then becomes a valuable source of information for their daily operations. As a team leader utilizing JIRA, you probably have employed JIRA dashboards to monitor the status of work, usually in context of a (release) planning. “won’t fix”).

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Development pace: Is code typically shipped in days/weeks, or does it take months/quarters? Talent operations: How quickly are new hires productive and how quickly are underperformers managed out? Strategic agility: Are plans modified and resources quickly reassigned when goals aren’t being met?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Nester and BBNI’s communications team partnered on a multilevel campaign to officially roll out the Technology Solutions entity and promote its newly-coined “techniculture” mission of leveraging technology to drive successful business outcomes. This enables us to leapfrog over our competition.”

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Martin Fowler

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Imagine a team writing software for a shopping website. If we look at the team's output, we might consider how many new features they produced in the last quarter, or a cross-functional measure such as a reduction in page load time. I've always been of the opinion that outcome is what we should concentrate on.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

“I’ve been working in the aircraft development space for decades, but 2021 was different,” Tigner writes. In reality, changing course is usually the smartest bet, because it allows founding teams to leverage new technology and adapt to changing market conditions. Mainstream attention is increasing. What are my best options?

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In the year 2004, two academicsMiachael Lombardo and Robert Eichingercoined the term learning agility and described it as one of the key metrics to measure leadership potential. Simply put, learning agility is a blend of curiosity, self-awareness, and a growth mindset. A lack of learning agility. What is learning agility?

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Evolution4all

AUGUST 5, 2018

I have recently been talking with several organisation leaders about Why Agile Portfolio Management is crucial. Why Agile Portfolio Management. In my opinion, Agile Portfolio management has the ability to solve or improve some of the issues I encountered in organisations. My first job was as a software engineer.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2025

In the not too distant past, software development was notorious for taking too long, costing too much, and having a high rate of cancellation. Gradually people throughout the industry figured out what worked less bad and, eventually, what worked better. Just like it says in the first line of the Agile manifesto.

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Xebia

JUNE 20, 2022

When companies transform towards an agile and DevOps way of working, they sometimes ask how to proceed with architects. Some companies ignore architects in their transformation, some will upskill their architects, and some will make the DevOps teams responsible for the architecture.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Security operations teams face a daunting task these days, fending off malicious hackers and their increasingly sophisticated approaches to cracking into networks. That also represents a gap in the market: building tools to help those security teams do their jobs. It’s time for security teams to embrace security data lakes.

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James Shore

AUGUST 25, 2022

Team dynamics form the bedrock of Agile teams’ ability to develop and deliver software. They’re the invisible undercurrents that determine your team’s culture. In this session, Diana Larsen and Linda Rising help us explore the dynamics that make and break Agile teams. Team Dynamics. ??

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Evolution4all

AUGUST 5, 2018

Spotify’s document about tribes and guilds became extremely popular in the Agile community. This approach is extremely common nowadays when companies start to implement Agile. Agile asks for cross-functional teams, and therefore companies start to build teams around different people with different skills within the organisation.

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Datavail

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In 2001, a group of expert software developers created the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. That document started a movement in the software development world and many teams now use the Agile software development approach. What is Agile Software Development?

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James Shore

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Investing in Agility. They’re the secret to Agile success. Second Edition cover.

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Building sales requires a well-equipped sales team, and in today’s digital world, that means IT must become a strong support partner. Is your IT organization doing all it can to help sales team members build and retain customers? It requires a deep commitment to frequent, clear communication and coordination on mutual goals.

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OverOps

JUNE 4, 2019

In a previous post , we looked at the magnitude and impact of the soaring cost of poor software quality in the US and where those hidden costs are typically found. Knowing these values allows management and team members across the company to take action in ensuring high quality at a lower cost. Cost of Poor Quality.

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CIO

MAY 2, 2023

Citizen developers have emerged as an approach to bridge the gap between technical expertise and domain knowledge. Citizen developers are a vital resource for organizations looking to streamline processes, increase efficiency, and reduce costs, whilst supporting business innovation and agile change. Who is a citizen developer?

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

Its been too weak in recent years. So IT architects need to get as close to business development as possible in order to shape the target architecture in line with the business plan. Another important move is about the overarching ways of working, where OKQ8 has already switched to working Agile, but Artvin is hesitant.

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