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 Executive Update takes a look at the host of C-suite technology titles and discusses what they mean to enterprise's today.
Earlier this month I participated in an international symposium mounted in honor of Professor Piet Ribbers' retirement from Tilburg University, Netherlands. Piet has been a leader for more than 30 years through his teaching, research, and with his development of graduate and professional programs in information management.
One of the more frequent approaches to "scaling Agile" is a set of development teams doing what they call "Scrum" in a larger project. The overall project management has heard of Agile and has also given its consent to use Scrum, but otherwise is working the same way it has worked for 20 years. After all, managers argue, "Scrum is only a development method." Some consider this approach "disciplined" for whatever reason; others call it "Scrum inside a waterfall." Here's a war story about what can happen in this setting.
Evolution is one of the eight factors that lies at the heart of enterprise architecture (see "Eight Factors in All Enterprise Architectures"). Roadmaps help analyze, plan, and manage architecture evolution. Roadmapping is the process of creating and using roadmaps, and it is one of the key capabilities for members of an EA team.
APM & SEE Vol. 15 No. 19
In this Executive Update we look at how to use mobile computing to broaden the impact of enterprise applications, and we discuss the complexities that such an approach entails. We examine how state-of-the-art dependency management tools can help manage this complexity and prevent systems from becoming opaque and brittle, and we see where these tools fit into end-to-end metadata architecture.
Part I of this three-part Executive Update series provided a short overview of how information security and privacy controls are -- or more often are not -- built into software, and also reviewed the responses to the first set of questions of a Cutter survey on developing privacy-sensitive software.
The subject that every distributed Agile team is questioning is the topic of setting up visual walls. Conflicts arise when purists argue in support of setting up visual boards across all locations, while the distributed teams consider it an inconvenience.