CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

They were new products, interfaces, and architectures to do the same thing we always did. A new generation of digital-first companies emerged that reimagined operations, enterprise architecture, and work for what was becoming a digital-first world. Data and workflows lived, and still live, disparately within each domain.

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Xebia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Should the team not be able to make all of these architectural decisions by themselves? Organizing architecture guided by two perspectives. First-of-all, architectural scopes are not to be seen as static elements. As a starter, we see architecture as a function. Do we need architects anyway? However, context matters here.

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NeverFriday

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

In this podcast episode we talk about how a team lead should be a coach and mentor to the team. I talk about a few scenarios and about the contrasts between the “coach” and “fixer” mindsets that leaders can adapt. Today I wanted to address coaching for team leads. Or a coach? Transcript.

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CIO

OCTOBER 15, 2024

We paired her with Stephen Van Vreede, president, executive resume writer, and coach for ITtechExec.com, to help her craft a versatile resume that accurately reflects her experience and expertise as a CIO and ensures broad appeal beyond the public sector.

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CIO

APRIL 22, 2025

Leaders with high EQ can influence, coach and mentor others, and resolve conflict effectively. What is of equal importance is building an organizational architecture that has resources trained on emerging technologies and skills. IDC predicts that by 2026, over 90% of organizations will be affected, potentially losing $5.5

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CircleCI

MAY 21, 2020

Designing software that is flexible and changeable is arguably the most important architectural property. However, if we optimise our architecture for change (evolvability), when we discover a performance issue or a security vulnerability we can change our system to help address it. Without mandating a specific architecture (e.g.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

Five Tips for CIOs to emerge as Financial Strategists Sangeeta Shankaran Sumesh, CFO turned business and leadership coach shares on how CIOs and tech leaders should become financial strategists as they transform into integral business advisors beyond technologists.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 13, 2025

They assist with operations such as QA reporting, coaching, workflow automations, and root cause analysis. MaestroQA integrated Amazon Bedrock into their existing architecture using Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). The following architecture diagram demonstrates the request flow for AskAI.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Home About Overview News Careers Contact Blog Services Branding/Identity Executive Search Leadership Development Overview CEO Coaching Executive Peer Groups Strategic Growth Consulting Innovation Management Personal Branding Reputation Management Social Media Consulting Pro Bono Services Clients Intermidiaries Downloads Blog Contactus N2growth Home (..)

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

FThis article describes a pattern we have observed and applied in multi-team-scope architecture modernization initiatives, the Architecture Modernization Enabling Team (AMET). An AMET is a type of architecture enabling team that coordinates and upskills all teams and stakeholders in the modernization initiative.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

CIOs often have a love-hate relationship with enterprise architecture. In the State of Enterprise Architecture 2023 , only 26% of respondents fully agreed that their enterprise architecture practice delivered strategic benefits, including improved agility, innovation opportunities, improved customer experiences, and faster time to market.

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Perficient

JANUARY 2, 2024

Much of the team’s success is thanks to their head coach Chris Finch and his offseason preparation for the team. W h ile learning about Coach Finch’s offseason preparation and game plans , I couldn’t help but think of the intriguing parallels between Finch’s coaching strategies and Perficient’s Envision Strategy Framework.

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OverOps

APRIL 7, 2019

Developers receive peer coaching during development to create better architecture. Coaching frequently is more effective, but it takes significant time investment. What happens if insufficient coaching is happening in your teams? Coaching refers to time spent either leading or receiving mentoring activities.

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Apiumhub

JANUARY 19, 2021

Apiumhub team organized a software architecture interview with a hands-on software architect we really admire – Mark Richards. He has been in the software industry since 1983 and has significant experience and expertise in application, integration, and enterprise architecture. What is software architecture for you?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

. “Giving teams access to an AI colleague who can understand legacy code and help new developers navigate it will enable companies to scale the impact of their current employees and train new employees with less personal coaching.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Architecture modernization initiatives are strategic efforts involving many teams, usually for many months or years. An AMET is an architecture Enabling Team that helps to coordinate and upskill all teams and stakeholders involved in a modernization initiative. They need a more loosely coupled architecture and empowered teams.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The goal was to onboard future users faster through improved guidance on how to properly frame questions for the assistant and additional coaching resources for those who needed more guidance to learn the system. The following diagram illustrates the Principal generative AI chatbot architecture with AWS services.

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CIO

APRIL 23, 2024

Some work best for engineers and architects, and others for coaches, trainers, or those in more senior roles. Coach teams to improve constantly. The 45-question exam tests candidates’ ability to: Develop and communicate the architectural vision. The 45-question exam tests candidates’ ability to: Facilitate Scrum events.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 10, 2018

I’ve been thinking about Agile architecture recently, since a seasoned consultant friend (Payson Hall of Catalysis, Inc.) Agile architecture does not mean no overview and no planning – although it does offer significant advantages over traditional approaches in many situations, including the one you describe.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

His background spans customer success, product management, digital transformation coaching, engineering, and consulting. Overview of solution To enable self-service cloud governance at scale, Hearst’s CCoE team decided to use the power of generative AI with Amazon Q Business to build a conversational assistant.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 20, 2025

The preceding architecture diagram showcases a pipeline for processing and retrieving insights from multimodal content using Amazon Bedrock Data Automation and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases. This architecture enhances automated data processing, efficient retrieval, and seamless real-time access to insights.

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Modern CTO

MAY 16, 2024

We discuss what he’s realized recently as a CTO coach, what he’s learned about aging, and just spend time catching up with an old friend of the show. Varied background in Storage Area Network (SAN), Server Architecture, IT Strategy, and Professional Services. Today we’re talking to Juan Orlandini, CTO at Insight of North America.

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CIO

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The modules were customed designed by “leaders in business and team agility,” according to ScrumAlliance, and they employ approved educators who can demonstrate years of “real-world experience and success” coaching others and implementing agile in the workplace. Careers, Certifications, IT Skills

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CIO

JULY 26, 2022

That’s just one major drive under way by the nonprofit golf association, which is also delivering myriad tournaments and events, special services, and classes to its 28,000 members, a roster including celebrities, national golf pros, golf coaches, amateur players, and people who work in the golf industry, says PGA of America CTO Kevin Scott.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Cain, who started as CIO for North America at Schneider Electric after serving nearly a decade as the company’s business transformation VP, says his IT department adopted the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) , brought in agile coaches to work with teams, and had workers earn agile certifications “so we don’t just think but act in agile terms.”

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Having joined Campbell’s in January 2022, Julia Anderson’s enterprise-wide responsibilities run from digital workplace services, IT platforms, and architecture, to cybersecurity oversight, business analytics, and transformation projects and programs. And your direct manager, who is potentially your advocate, is not your coach and mentor.

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Apiumhub

JANUARY 12, 2021

Apiumhub team organized a Software Architecture Interview with João Rosa – GSAS speaker , Apium Academy Professor and Strategic Software Delivery Consultant @ Xebia to know more about key issues he has faced in the industry as well as recommendations he would like to give to his software architecture peers. .

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CIO

APRIL 10, 2024

The company is also leaning into more mentoring and coaching for existing staff. All successful athletes, even at the peak of their careers, have coaches,” he says. Why shouldn’t our leaders and managers have coaches? There’s also a mentoring and coaching program in place. That’s where soft skills are learned.”

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Apiumhub

JUNE 22, 2022

We are delighted to announce the release of our new book “ Software Architecture Metrics: Case Studies to Improve the Quality of Your Architecture ”. Global Software Architecture Summit for meeting all these software architects, who push me forward and who generate interesting discussions. ” How did it all started?

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James Shore

JUNE 19, 2021

One of the limits on your ability to scale will be the availability of skilled coaches. Remember, coaches are the people who help each team learn how to apply Agile ideas and practices.) If you’re taking a home-grown approach to your coaches, each team will need a dedicated team member to act as coach.

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CIO

JANUARY 2, 2023

It’s an application architecture. coaches) and team members need to learn Agile in small projects before putting them on large-program Agile teams, but not recognizing that sponsors also need to learn their Agile ropes before they sponsor large Agile programs. The costs of on-premises systems are the opposite.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

OCTOBER 24, 2023

When the original paper was written, they had guilds for Web Technology and Agile Coaches Guild. Is this just another matrix model, the sort of thing that Agile coaches have been undoing for years? The chapter lead (not a great choice of name) is a coach, focusing on skill and technical excellence. Spotify reversed this.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. Simon Brown taught me how to review architecture diagrams 10 years ago.

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Accenture

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Agile Transformation Coaches. Whether to bring in external support in the form of training, coaching, consulting and change management. A high-level plan for what training, coaching, and consulting will be provided to these individuals and teams to make the intended initiative results stick. Agile Transformation Coaches.

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Gitprime

JUNE 11, 2019

She took her experience and co-founded Wherewithall , where she offers one-on-one coaching services for managers, executives, and individual contributors growing into leadership, and consulting services to support engineering organizations. For that, we’ll look to coaching. Their answers would give me a place to start coaching.

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CIO

JUNE 6, 2023

Get support from HR or bring in a coach to help you get the right atmospheric synergy to create the high-performance team you want,” she says. CIOs with a systems architectural background understand the appeal and value of composable building blocks and architectures.

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CIO

APRIL 2, 2024

Underpinning these initiatives is a slew of technology capabilities and strategies aimed at accelerating delivery cycles, such as establishing product management disciplines, building cloud architectures, developing devops capabilities, and fostering agile cultures.

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