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Rethinking enterprise architects’ roles for agile transformation

CIO

Many organizations create program charters for strategic initiatives in which they define the program’s leadership roles and accountabilities. I recommend three primary roles: a product manager owning the vision, a delivery leader overseeing agile teams and implementation, and a program sponsor.

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5 surefire ways to derail a digital transformation (without knowing it)

CIO

Worse is when prioritized initiatives don’t have a documented shared vision, including a definition of the customer, targeted value propositions, and achievable success criteria. But are product managers developing market- and customer-driven roadmaps and prioritized backlogs?

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Digital transformation’s fundamental change management mistake

CIO

Over the past decade, CIOs have invested significantly in digital transformation initiatives in an effort to improve customer experiences, build data analytics capabilities, and deliver productivity enhancements with automation. Documentation and well-written user stories guide teams in completing the work and meeting requirements.

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AI: the ultimate check against organizational well-being

CIO

If I look at program managers, for example, they have to read a lot of documents, go to a lot of meetings, look for risks, and things like that, she says. The companys finance division uses emerging technologies for forecasting and analysis, and its treasury division uses AI to investigate customer payment requests.

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Top 15 project management certifications

CIO

It’s a certification aimed at senior project managers, agile professionals, product managers and owners, Scrum masters, and business analysts. The exam includes questions from the project management, program management, and product management sections of the course materials. Price: $130.

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Gloria Lin thinks construction needs to ‘catch the wave of fintech’

TechCrunch

As an engineering program manager at Apple, Gloria Lin was part of a group that conceptualized and built initial prototypes for what is now Apple Pay. As head of product at the news aggregator, Lin led the growth of Flipboard’s user base from zero to more than 100 million users across 14 international markets. .

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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

CIO

Business leaders expect IT to develop new products, improve customer experiences, automate workflows, and deliver new artificial intelligence capabilities. The best way to address this gap is to draft a simple vision statement written by product managers and delivery leaders in collaboration with stakeholders and agile teams.

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