"With any substantial investment in new technology comes the question of value. Is there enough value in the mountain of unstructured social media data to justify the expense and effort of examining it?"
"The popularity of social networking sites, coupled with our 24/7, always-on mobile devices, means that data and opinions are always 'flowing.'" -- Matt Ganis and Avinash Kohirkar, Guest Editors
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.
When introducing an agile approach to IT development into an environment that has known only a structured, start-to-finish, planned approach, you will likely encounter resistance.
How do you manage a remote development team that needs to deliver functions in a graphically rich environment with a technology that is new, virtual, and evolving? Our answer: go agile!
Matthew Ganis and Michael Ackerbauer describe how to build awesome teams. You want to be Agile (of course!) and adopt Agile practices. Awesome teams have the skills and resources to fulfill their mission and include the right mix of personalities. The authors argue that the organization is really a “team of teams” that needs a shared purpose and way of working to make the abstract concrete. According to them, awesome teams build on a common foundation based on the concept of Breakthrough Thinking/diversity of thought.
At some level, everyone understands that spending all of your time and resources focusing solely on what you already have or do will eventually leave you behind the curve when the "next