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Governance is about what decisions need to be made, who gets to make them, how they are made, and the supporting management processes, structures, information, and tools to ensure that decisions are effectively implemented, complied with, and achieving the desired levels of performance. This requires that the accountabilities and responsibilities be well understood and clearly and unambiguously assigned, the reward system be aligned, and relevant performance metrics be in place.
October 24, 2018 | Authored By: Joe Peppard, John Thorp
As we explore in this Executive Report, your agile teams might not live up to their full potential due to an inappropriate work environment. Agile management innovations (AMIs) shape the organization’s environment to unleash the full potential of agile employees. AMIs inspire innovations at the management level, providing greater success in terms of productivity, innovation, and employee retention. Agile management innovations (AMIs) help organizations work better with their agile teams and help those teams be more productive. AMIs create an environment supporting a state of flow for the employees through an emphasis on autonomy, mastery, and purpose.
April 30, 2013 | Authored By: Bernd Schiffer
Agile adoption often goes hand in hand with abandoning the so-called traditional methods of project management and software engineering. This comes from the idea that Agile approaches originated from a point of rupture with traditional methods and, hence, must not inherit any of their characteristics. However, most traditional methods, tools, and techniques were devised to address legitimate and universal management questions, which happen to be present in Agile initiatives as well and therein continue to require a project management answer. This Executive Report discusses how the earned value management method can be adapted to fit into an Agile product development process, and thereby deliver the required controls essential to achieve business value and stakeholder expectations.
May 22, 2017 | Authored By: Alexandre Rodrigues
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.
October 30, 2014 | Authored By: Glenn Waters
The financial industry is currently focusing on AI solutions using ML and NLP technologies. Software, fintech, and regtech vendors are developing and improving models using data and supervised (training) and unsupervised learning. This proves more effective than previous AI approaches. This Advisor explores the current state of practice in the financial industry’s application of AI.
July 4, 2019 | Authored By: Tom Butler, Leona O Brien
Managers often struggle with the decision of whether or not to significantly modify the customer relationship management (CRM) and other software packages they have just purch
March 12, 2002 | Authored By: Mark Richards