8 agile certifications to take your career to the next level

Agile has revolutionized the face of software development and project management, and has increased demand for IT professionals with understanding of the methodology and its many flavors — Lean, Scrum, Kanban and Scaled Agile, or SAFe, for the enterprise. The methodology, which emphasizes cross-functional teams collaborating incrementally and iteratively on projects in a flexible and…

7 tips for improving employee retention

How confident are you that you can keep key positions filled with qualified employees over the next five years? If you’re like most IT leaders, the answer is: Not very. And it’s not just because of pipeline and skills gap problems. Your best employees are likely hot targets for savvy recruiters — and some may…

How AI will revolutionize DevOps

Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere today — or at least it seems that way. The technology certainly holds a lot of promise because it will enable all sorts of automation for business processes that are still largely manual, and deliver more power to data analytics. One area that AI is already affecting and is destined…

Even utilities look to innovate and transform processes

I’ve always wondered how regulated utilities, which have a captive audience, drive innovation. When you are not competing for market share, how do you justify a strategic approach to technology? Mike Koehler, CIO and chief digital officer of Exelon, says using technology to improve the customer, employee, and supplier experience is precisely why he was…

At GM, self-service analytics drives business results

General Motors has built a predictive analytics platform that generates insights into several core business strategies, including anticipating market demand for autonomous vehicles. Maxis — shorthand for maximizing insights — represents a multi-million-dollar investment in data-crunching technologies that coincides with the company’s IT strategy overhaul. Maxis, which received a CIO 100 Award in IT excellence,…