These are complex times. From rapid technological advances to fast-changing customer demands, IT professionals face an always-growing list of challenges. Harvard Business Review says complexity is an ...

Agile, the trendy software development model, has created challenges for people looking to capture institutional knowledge, according to some knowledge management (KM) experts. Agile development, with ...

As Agile development increases in popularity, companies have achieved faster time to market, reduced risk, and increased ability to manage changing priorities in their projects. However, what Agile ...

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Agile methodologies have become the default mode for innovation. But are they always the best choice for launching human-centered customer experiences? Somehow, somewhere, we fell too deeply in love ...

What makes Enterprise Agile different from plain ol' ordinary agile? Our Agile Architect returns with a series of columns exploring what we can gain from enterprise agility. You may have noticed that ...

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BI remains atop business managers’ wish lists and, not coincidentally, on IT’s to-do list. The demand for BI and analytic tools is unlikely to abate any time soon. For many CIOs, however, delivering ...

Many agile and scrum teams start with basic practices to enable self-organizing teams to better deliver on business priorities. Practices include committing to what teams can get done in a sprint, ...

Many organizations feel the need to be thinner, faster, stronger, more adaptable, more profitable, etc. The right toolset to get them to that outcome may not be intuitive or singular. Building ...

Most manufacturers have operations teams skilled in the core methodologies to improve efficiency and quality—lean Six Sigma, kaizen, TPS and kanban. But it is rare to see agile teams working their ...