Is Agile the End of Hot-Desking?
As companies shift to agile ways of working, the right workspace design becomes more important than ever.
As companies shift to agile ways of working, the right workspace design becomes more important than ever.
An agile transformation requires teams to fundamentally change their ways of working. Here’s how to persuade everyone to pull together.
If you’ve implemented agile, but only lightly adjusted your business’s standard work methods, you need to dig deeper.
Traditional companies in nearly all sectors are deploying agile principles in core business areas—and outperforming their peers in the marketplace.
For Risk Management Solutions, the move to a cloud-based platform involved big challenges. Company leaders reveal how a hybrid development approach contributed to their success.
Agile is powerful, but it isn’t suitable for every digital project. If the company’s technology architecture isn’t decoupled, or if project dependencies are high, a hybrid approach makes sense.
Is your IT team struggling to implement large, enterprise-wide projects on time and under budget? By changing tactics, companies can save millions each year.
Cloud developers are both revising the rules for writing software and breaking speed records in the release and updating of code. Traditional software teams can learn a lot from cloud development teams about unleashing creativity and satisfying customers.
BCG on Agile
Simply put, agile works. But putting agile to work is no simple thing.
Agile software development takes you only so far. To keep pace in the digital age, you also need DevOps.
HSBC’s David Knott looks for ways to streamline the bank’s digital infrastructure, adopting new technology and new ways of thinking in the digital world.
If agile is failing to deliver results, look to your product owners. More often than not, they are the weak link when agile development stagnates.
Two-speed IT was a great intermediate stage, letting companies gain experience in agile processes while retaining traditional development methods. But now it’s time to take the next step, to all-agile.
Agile methodologies are paying big dividends for companies. DevOps is a set of complementary practices that can boost returns still more.
Watch out for four traps that can hurt the agile development process.
Ditching the waterfall method can hone a focus on customers and empower employees, boosting the quality of data and improving project outcomes.
First, HR carried out an agile makeover of the bank’s Dutch unit—then, it transformed itself. HR and functional-area leaders everywhere, take note.
Marketers that successfully implement agile do so as a form of transformation—cultural as well as organizational.
Agile is hard—really hard. But when companies don’t commit to planning and execution, they risk falling into one of several known traps.
Too often, agile remains confined to software development. But companies that successfully implement the approach across the enterprise can create an exceptional customer experience and gain a competitive edge.
Companies that adopt agile ways of working are five times more likely to experience faster growth and higher profits than those that don’t. Several other elements of good organization design can also help.
The test-and-learn practices of software development, which help reduce complexity and bureaucracy, travel well across industries.
Retailers seeking growth have run up against a brick wall. They can scale it with new ways of working.
Agile may seem risky and impractical for regulatory projects, but it offers extraordinary benefits and can give banks an edge over competitors.
Agile enables ING to react swiftly in a rapidly changing world.
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