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Exploring the Benefits of an Agile Application Modernization Approach

Leading Agile

Unless you have been constantly refactoring and modernizing this asset over its history, problems begin to emerge: On-premises infrastructure costs are not competitive. Vendors are dropping support of key technologies used by your application. Staffing for legacy technologies is increasingly expensive and difficult to find.

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Navigating the Challenges of Cloud Transformation

Leading Agile

Cloud transformation is not simply a technological shift but a comprehensive, multi-dimensional journey that requires strategic planning, execution, and management. In this piece, we’ll delve into the complexities of cloud transformation, which is receiving increasing interest due to a desire to leverage emerging AI opportunities.

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Spain, Trains, and Incremental Delivery

Scrum.org

A very interesting (and sad) piece of news made headlines in Spain recently that provides some lessons about agile product development and incremental delivery. Consequently, the delivery of the trains is delayed for a few years due to the fact that the designs that were delivered are for the wrong size of trains.

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Escaping the Feature Factory

Scrum.org

It’s too bad that this shift undermines Agile principles and hampers long-term success and innovation. Overemphasis on Utilization : Prioritizing keeping teams busy with feature work over allowing time for creativity, exploration, and addressing technical debt also contributes to a feature factory environment.

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IT project management explained: How to run great IT projects

Planio

The best companies rely on a solid foundation of IT infrastructure to grow, adapt to market changes, and keep their users happy. On average, IT projects come with more complexity and risk, and can quickly fall to pieces without proper due diligence, management, and leadership. But this is a mistake. And that’s no simple job.

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How to Become an IT Project Manager

ProjectManager.com

In Review – How to Become an IT Project Manager: If you want to become an IT project manager, Jennifer said she’s happy to hear that because that means you are motivated and have a specific goal. Technical understanding including hardware, software, network, infrastructure, security, etc. IT Project Management Job Plan.

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What’s The Future of Project Management in 2023 and beyond?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Hybrid Project Management: The Next Step for Agile. But there does seem to be a trend in accepting that agile approaches like Scrum can fit within a hybrid framework. The future of project management needs to be more agile. The future of project management needs to be more agile. Arup, Future of Project Management.