Strategic advice to leverage new technologies
Technology is at the heart of nearly every enterprise, enabling new business models and strategies, and serving as the catalyst to industry convergence. Leveraging the right technology can improve business outcomes, providing intelligence and insights that help you make more informed and accurate decisions. From finding patterns in data through data science, to curating relevant insights with data analytics, to the predictive abilities and innumerable applications of AI, to solving challenging business problems with ML, NLP, and knowledge graphs, technology has brought decision-making to a more intelligent level. Keep pace with the technology trends, opportunities, applications, and real-world use cases that will move your organization closer to its transformation and business goals.
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The Best Project Ever
This is a story about developing software, getting things done, and delighting customers. It turns out that the heart of the story is one that embodies Agile principles.
In this article, I take a stroll down memory lane, looking back on many of the traditional and Agile projects that I worked on and trying to determine what made them successful. I have boiled it down to some of the key practices we used on these projects and made links between these best practices and what I teach teams every day working as an Agile coach.
Each project within each software development organization is subject to constraints imposed by the project's reality. For instance, a problem my colleagues and I have studied is the impact of Agile practices in global software development. 2 In global software development environments, teams are distributed, cultures are different, and the customer can usually only be at one location at a time. Does this mean that these projects cannot be Agile?
The bad news: there is no one right way to be Agile.
A natural human propensity causes us to approach new technology with old thinking, which significantly slows the rate at which we truly take advantage of the change. In this Advisor, we analyze this syndrome -- which I call the "Technology 1.0 Syndrome" -- and discuss how to break out of it in the case of mobile computing technology.