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How to Scale Scrum to Larger Projects
The popularity of agile methodologies has grown significantly among developer teams, compared to sequential software development approaches. 71% of respondents to the 17th State of Agile Report from Digital.ai have adopted Agile in their software development lifecycle. According to the same report, 63% of Agile teams use Scrum, making it the most popular Agile framework. […]
From DevOps to the Future: The Evolutionary Leap to Platform Engineering
Platform engineering is extending the principles that made DevOps so successful to meet the challenges and opportunities of the new tech era.
There are Few Enough Silver Bullets
I was working through this week’s blog this morning, and it was laser-focused on a narrow topic. I had examples of why too much of a good thing is bad, how absolutism about methodology is hurting the majority of organizations out there, and how to get past this issue to keep improving what IT does […]
How DevOps Tools Are Contributing to Automation Initiatives Across the IT Landscape
Prolific advancements in IT, specifically in agile methods and culture over the years, has led to burgeoning needs for a more holistic end-to-end software delivery approach. Agile development is an umbrella term that encompasses numerous incremental and iterative software development practices — including Kanban, SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Lean Development, among […]
IT Enables Scale in Digital Transformation
Few corporate functions have seen their role disrupted as much as IT these last few years. The help desk days are long gone. As digital transformation accelerates, IT is becoming less about outright technology and more about creating capabilities that enable the overarching business strategy. As such, IT is the engine behind any company’s digital […]
The Secret to Digital Transformation is Human Connection
We know digital transformation is no longer an option for today’s organizations–it’s a requirement. End-users have come to expect an easy, digital-native experience, whether they are ordering a pizza or automating an entire network infrastructure, which is why businesses and governments are throwing trillions of dollars at new technologies and related services. Organizations must build […]
4 Traits of High-Performance Digital Leaders
Businesses that have retooled their culture, their hierarchy and their business mindset toward the use of technology are consistently outperforming their more traditional peers. According to the newly released Harvey Nash/KPMG CIO Survey 2019, digital leaders are the top 30% of businesses that are extremely effective at leveraging digital capabilities to advance their business strategy. […]
Promoting Purpose in Agile Environments
Agile environments increasingly are becoming a popular option for organizations large and small. Although initially created as a solution for small software development teams with short budgets and complex scopes, it’s been adopted (and refashioned) for all industries and team sizes. Agile Methodologies: Why They Work The agile approach seems obvious to us now, but […]
What Can Automation Learn From DevOps?
A recent Capgemini survey revealed that while enterprise-scale automation is still in its infancy, IT automation projects are moving along. IT is starting to view automation less tactically and more strategically. The Capgemini survey also showed that IT automation can be responsible for several quick wins, including self-healing, event correlation, diagnostics, application releases, cybersecurity monitoring […]