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Make Room for the New Chief Business Agility Officer (CBO)
Let’s face it, for some companies the role of the CIO driving business really doesn’t make sense. Don’t get me wrong I am not saying that the CIO role is going away. But according to CIO magazine the role of the CIO seems to be changing. It was like riding a business wave that may have peaked. What many companies seem to need now is not just an IT manager that can speak business but a business manager that can speak product and technology. Remember that for the most part many company org charts have not changed over the years. Because of a need for quicker solution and agility it was thought that IT may be the solution. The only problem is that in order to grow business much more … Read entire article »
Filed under: Product Management
Why the AVO Method works for companies going Agile.
When it comes to software development a lot of companies still use a methodology that has been around for a long time and that is the waterfall method. Before, months or even years went into strict planning of every detail, finalizing requirements, developing the design, then construction and then finally testing only to find out that markets had changed and therefore business requirements had changed and the product’s value was only a fraction of what it should have been and in some cases needed major re-work or even needed to be shelved completely. For many business today the market moves even more frenetically than ever and therefore strategies need to be far more dynamic. And of course with these challenging economic times for many companies the point may no longer be … Read entire article »
Filed under: Product Management, Project & Portfolio Management