A bunch of CIOs in Los Angeles were unhappy. They’d run into each other at local conferences and have the same conversation — it was harder than ever to find talent, especially with the skill sets to drive digital transformation. “This is seven years ago,” says Ron Guerrier, CIO and secretary of innovation and technology…
[Disclosure: Many of the companies mentioned in this article – OutSystems, AgilePoint, Compuware, CA, SkyTap and WaveMaker – are current or past clients of the author.] The scene opens with the blue-grey drabness and cold columns typical of an old-school bank. A man walks through the scene lamenting fees and minimums as he grabs one…
Scrum is a powerful framework for implementing agile processes in software development and other projects. This highly adopted framework utilizes short iterations of work, called sprints, and daily meetings, called scrums, to tackle discrete portions of a project in succession until the project is complete. There are three key roles within Scrum: Scrum master, product…
Myths can be fun and entertaining when they involve the exploits of ancient gods and heroes. The amusement stops quickly, however, when a myth hampers IT or enterprise success. So it goes with the stubborn misconceptions that delay or prevent the adoption of potentially productive cloud services. “We are still in the early stages of…