What does “digital” really mean to a company? What makes Agile different from what came before? What are the implications of DevOps and the speed it provides? This article highlights the degree of change required for various heavily impacted functions within the company and the impact of new behaviors that go against decades of habit.

What does “digital” really mean to a company? What makes Agile different from what came before? What are the implications of DevOps and the speed it provides? This article highlights the degree of change required for various heavily impacted functions within the company and the impact of new behaviors that go against decades of habit.

Agile has picked up a number of misconceptions, offshoots, and antipatterns as the world has figured out how to make it effective in different environments. Jacek Chmiel examines potential biases and the impacts they have on how Agile and DevOps show up in our organizations, helping us reflect on how we might reimagine various aspects and break out of our old ways of thinking.

Agile has picked up a number of misconceptions, offshoots, and antipatterns as the world has figured out how to make it effective in different environments. Jacek Chmiel examines potential biases and the impacts they have on how Agile and DevOps show up in our organizations, helping us reflect on how we might reimagine various aspects and break out of our old ways of thinking.

How many times must a predictable, recurring risk transform into a crisis before those in charge decide that perhaps steps should be taken to mitigate the risk? In the case of Texas power-generating utilities and US states’ pandemic vaccinations preparations, it appears that the answer is at least three times and counting.

Digital twins have a range of capabilities that contribute to organi­zational agility. This Advisor explores how these capabilities link to agility dimensions, including data management capabilities, simulation, modeling, optimization, learning, and traceability.

This on-demand webinar introduces several approaches to measuring EA value and recommends a process for deriving EA value metrics that aligns with your organization’s value drivers.

This issue of Cutter Business Technology Journal, with Guest Editor Eric Willeke, explores the strategies leaders should embrace to enable transformational change. These include integrating elements of digital, Agile, DevOps, and other modern practices, embracing a holistic mindset and culture, measuring impact, and reimagining new approaches to formerly tried-and-true practices.

This issue of Cutter Business Technology Journal, with Guest Editor Eric Willeke, explores the strategies leaders should embrace to enable transformational change. These include integrating elements of digital, Agile, DevOps, and other modern practices, embracing a holistic mindset and culture, measuring impact, and reimagining new approaches to formerly tried-and-true practices.

Successful transformation requires organizations to structure and operate in new ways, which requires creating many new patterns for designing teams and their collaborations with other groups. Anna Wiedemann et al. introduce one example of an organizational structure tactic for enabling successful evolutionary change with a small group of development teams supported by a vendor-managed operations environment.

As leaders, we naturally focus on the exciting, high-impact areas, which unfortunately leads to blind spots around the boring, "un-fun" areas. Cheryl Crupi shares six hygiene factors that can be crippling if not addressed. The factors highlight the need for a holistic approach to agility that integrates elements of digital, Agile, DevOps, and many other modern practices for companies that want to be successful in the digital age.

As leaders, we naturally focus on the exciting, high-impact areas, which unfortunately leads to blind spots around the boring, "un-fun" areas. Cheryl Crupi shares six hygiene factors that can be crippling if not addressed. The factors highlight the need for a holistic approach to agility that integrates elements of digital, Agile, DevOps, and many other modern practices for companies that want to be successful in the digital age.

Cristina Popescu and Danish Aziz introduce objectives and key results (OKRs), one of the core tools for creating alignment in times of intense change and anchoring the types of steering approaches capable of keeping up with the decision speed required to be effective in the digital age.

Cristina Popescu and Danish Aziz introduce objectives and key results (OKRs), one of the core tools for creating alignment in times of intense change and anchoring the types of steering approaches capable of keeping up with the decision speed required to be effective in the digital age.

In this Advisor, Barry O'Reilly discusses how 2021 will be the year to forgo making predictions with the hope that more designers of systems and organizations will realize the importance of residue, of introducing greater optionality, and of diversity of approaches to problems, instead of simplistic beliefs in easy solutions to complex problems.

In this Advisor, Barry O'Reilly discusses how 2021 will be the year to forgo making predictions with the hope that more designers of systems and organizations will realize the importance of residue, of introducing greater optionality, and of diversity of approaches to problems, instead of simplistic beliefs in easy solutions to complex problems.

The notion of shifting security left — to an earlier point in development — is growing in popularity. This Advisor explores how a combination of two tools can enable your security and technology teams to provision secure, purpose-built infrastructure that you can then use to guarantee compliance to your policies by implementing those policies as code.

As data breaches continue to occur with increasing frequency, a new innovation called fully homomorphic encryption or FHE provides the ability to perform computational processing on encrypted data without the need to decrypt it. This Advisor explores the benefits and limitations of this new form of encryption.

In this edition of The Cutter Edge, we'll explore how agile fared in the global pandemic, the tools and processes necessary to measure EA value, and more!

Having diversity is a stepping-stone in the process of effective workplace inclusion, not a conclusion. In this Advisor, we address the steps necessary to move the diversity and inclusion needle within organizations, first taking into account that organizations are responsible for the well-being and growth of their members.

This Advisor outlines the makeup of a transformational leadership team, how to form the team, how it can focus its efforts, behaviors, and expectations, and how to convert the themes and horizons established during transformation planning into objectives and key results to ground the change in metrics and reality.

In times of significant world threats, leaders have had to work closely with HR to address workers’ fear, stress, uncertainty, lack of clarity, and even panic. In this Advisor, we provide some tools to help HR management meet these challenges.

Silos can help distribute the work­load but they also make it difficult to collaborate and share resources. This Advisor explores some of the challenges that silos can create.

When it comes to digital twin security, how much of the safety, security, and reliability depends on the technology built into the digital twin system, and how much is down to its deployment, operation, and maintenance? This Advisor explores these and other digital twin security issues.

In this series, the authors explore leadership practices that enable teams to engage in collective creativity toward the best possible (novel, relevant, valuable) outcome. This Advisor looks at the particularly entrepreneurial qualities or acts that are part of this way of leading, and asserts that in a postindustrial innovation economy, the entrepreneurship component in leadership moves ahead of the management component.