agile - News, Features, and Slideshows

• CIO spotlight: Rebecca Thomas of PwC New Zealand

  PwC CIO Rebecca Thomas majored in Chinese and information sciences at university. She mines this divergent background in the fast-paced digital era.

• Culture and digital transformation: ‘For most people, it feels like they have just been dropped inside the twilight zone’

  ‘For most people, it feels like they have just been dropped inside the twilight zone,’ says NZQA CIO Lukasz Zawilski

• Employee engagement: 10 best practices for improving your culture

  A culture of engagement can improve business productivity and employee retention. CIOs and experts share tips on keeping your staff engaged.

• Chris Buxton of Stats NZ: What ‘digital first’ means for today’s business leaders

  It is not about the next big platform, or the next technology solution, explains the chief digital officer at Stats NZ

• Movers and shakers: Rob McDonnell is new NZ Post CIO

  Paul Touhey also joins the digital, data & tech team at NZ Post

• Are agile, DevOps and similar certifications worth it?

  DevOps, continuous delivery, scrum and agile are all necessary skills in an IT-driven workplace. But how much can certifications in these areas really prove?

• How to help your agile team succeed

  If your organization has adopted an agile methodology and you're frustrated by failure, it's time for a long, hard look in the mirror: Perhaps the problem isn't agile. The problem is your management style. How can you help teams succeed? First, you have to get out of their way, says Selena Delesie, founder and principal at Delesie Solutions, an agile coaching, consulting and training firm, in a workshop held at Agile Alliance 2015 last week in Washington, D.C.

• 11 project management tips for setting and managing expectations

  Project management experts discuss the best ways to set, manage and adjust expectations to ensure that projects don't veer off course - and they suggest what steps project managers should take if they do.

• 13 tips for keeping IT projects under control

  How do you keep IT projects under control? Project managers and other experts share their top tips for keeping IT projects on schedule.

Whitepapers about agile

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  2016 Veeam Availability Report: How to close a widening Availability Gap

  While business transformation is driven by a new breed of user — one that desires a seamless, connected experience — the ability for modern enterprises to deliver non-stop services and continually innovate has never been more urgent. However, are today’s businesses delivering what users need?

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  Agile revolution report: Benchmarks and guidelines to improve your effectiveness

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  Achieving agile IT operations with unified infrastructure monitoring