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Tag: agile (page 7)
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Edgar Uy: Agile, Collaborative Processes Are the Keys to Excellent CX
Edgar Uy believes software design and development can only achieve the highest quality after a careful, deliberative, collaborative process. As the head of digital strategy and delivery for the Project Management Institute, his work involves overseeing user experience design, customer analytics, and search.
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Take an Agile Approach to Process Improvement
Being agile means you’re flexible, you're fast and you're adaptable. Agility is a necessity in the fast-moving world of software development, where the approach keeps you nimble enough to keep on innovating — which is what software should be all about. But agility doesn’t apply only to software development.
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How the Citizen Developer Trend Powers Business Transformation
Teams are working quicker, accessing more information and making data-driven decisions in real-time thanks to the democratization of technology.
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Build Seamless Experiences (and Build Them Quickly)
We've been having the wrong conversations. We shouldn't be talking about matching one experience to the other or trying to funnel our customers down a particular buying path.
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See the World Through Your Customers' Eyes
"Go see, ask why, show respect." The words of Toyota chairman Fujio Cho have become renowned as the basic lean principles on which to build and run a business.
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Can Agile Processes and DevOps Fuel Your Digital Transformation?
The US federal government has painted a horrible picture of digital transformation — one marred by multi-year project timelines, overspending and the Healthcare.gov website failures. But now the feds are using practices like agile development and DevOps to change history and fuel the migration of digital services to the cloud.
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Agile CMOs Prepare For the Distance
Tenure for CMOs has slipped for the first time in a decade, from 48 months to 44 months. Combine that information with insights from Forrester, which revealed that 85 percent of marketing executives believe that today’s marketing department includes functions that no one thought would be a responsibility as recently
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Agile + Scale - DevOps = Predictable Doom
Predictability is the primary reason companies embrace agile over waterfall. The full slate of reasons vary depending upon the context of the company, and it would certainly not come as a shock that many companies embrace agile because it’s hip.
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Have Microservices Rendered SOA Obsolete?
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) was once a topic hot enough to fill its own magazine. In fact, SOA was the first software development methodology to ever successfully pierce the realm of business management. It was an endeavor that had to be undertaken not only with rigor but also with rigidity.
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This is How We DevOps
Last month, instead of retreading over the tired “What is DevOps?” ground, I asked a different question: “How Do You DevOps?” While the debate over litmus tests and succinct definitions continues, one voice struck a chord. While I empathize with Josh Johnson’s angst and frustration, I would offer an
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Successful CMOs Create the Structure to Innovate
Change conquers those who fail to receive it as a friend. And change has got marketing in a headlock these days. Consumers engage with brands, explore products and make purchases in ever more channels and on ever more devices -- and this dizzying trend will only continue.
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5 Requirements of Agile Digital Marketing
Everyone wants to be agile these days. Whether it's a bunch of senior execs in a boardroom, or a group of super software gurus in an “idea space” full of Nerf balls, or anyone in between. Things just move too fast and we need to adjust on the fly.
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2014 Action Item: Did B2B Marketers Become More Agile?
It was just a year ago that B2B marketers had a clean slate, the whole year in front of them. Now it's over. 2014's gone. No second chances. We caught up this time last year with industry insiders about some absolute must-dos for 2014. Starting today, we catch up
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Prediction for 2015: The Fall of People, Process and Technology
I don't know how many more years I'll be able to keep it up -- every year I try to make predictions that are unique, bold and a little bit against the grain. Last year I predicted the rise of lefties, two years ago I went with big data finding an Andy Warhol all of its own. This
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