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Microsegmentation and the Cloud Ecosystem
Data centers that support today’s cloud systems must implement extensible networks based on technology that allows them to scale in an Agile, cost-effective fashion. Market trends include customer microsegmentation analytics supported by communications service providers that leverage microsegmentation analytics to improve customer retention, revenue generation, and customer experience.
Transforming Business Processes via Big Data Strategies
Value is the main interest in big data. Extraction of value from big data transcends both analytics and technologies. Value is highly dependent on the “context” in which data is analyzed and used. The Big Data Framework for Agile Business (BDFAB) is my comprehensive approach to big data adoption, which includes (among others) a module on business process modeling (BPM) and business analysis (BA). This module considers modeling and optimization of business processes as highly relevant and crucial in deriving value from big data.
The Road to Organizational Agility: Where’s the Starting Line?
Agility does not come easily; it is more a question of culture and values than a question of using specific methods and tools. Using a self-assessment tool, this Executive Update describes how organizations can measure their agility.
How Can Organizational Structure Ensure Alignment and Equivalence?
If you are with a conventional company (probably one established before 2010), it’s very likely that you have a command-and-control structure with a board dominated by shareholder representatives and operationalized starting with the CEO. There may be many levels of command, down to section- or unit-level supervisors. This structure is time-tested, beginning with the Pharaohs of Egypt! It has the advantage of clearly delineating authorities, responsibilities, decision-making roles, and accountabilities.
An Agile Development Framework for Business Analysts: Part IV — The Process Dynamics of the ADF Toolset
In this Update, we examine some of the more temporal aspects of using the ADF activities as part of a systems development process. We begin by revisiting the ADF activity structure and, by choosing an example development process, examine how the activities that comprise that process exchange information. We shall then look at the viability of a typical development sprint timescale in being able to accommodate all the activities necessary for large, complex development involving business analysis.
Developing an Experimental Culture
An organization is likely to base its digital disruption upon the markets and geographies in which it already operates, and the existing workforce understands the customers and needs of both the current market and the current geographies. It is therefore essential that leaders utilize their existing resource pool by providing employees with the learning and tailored development to facilitate their transition to the digital era.
A Light-Touch Architecture Governance Approach
Miklós Jánoska provides a perspective on how we can shift architecture from a governor to more of an enabler.
9 Rules of Agile Architecture
Bob Galen lays out nine rules of Agile architecture to inform us in how to think about architecture and help us strike the right balance between architecture and agility.