Product or Project Portfolio Management is critical to all enterprises today, as they try to evaluate, prioritize, and execute the right initiatives at the right time. From ensuring coverage for all sources of demand, to evaluating the risk/ opportunity profiles of each potential project/ initiative, it is crucial that stakeholders, portfolio, and risk managers get things generally right.

We conducted a webinar with Masa K Maeda on 'Increasing the Efficiency of Agile Transformations'. Masa's been successful at scaling Agile at numerous companies in over 10 countries. In this session, he will share some of his practical experiences to increase efficiency during agile transformations. The talk will combine diverse elements and focus on continuous improvement at the process level as well as the human aspect level.

KPIs for software delivery leaders used to be mainly with regards to meeting delivery dates without compromising on quality - there was a lot of emphasis on predictable delivery. Nowadays, there is increasing recognition of the value of improving speed-to-market and therefore, metrics like “Change Lead Time” (CLT) have also become important. To reduce CLT, we need to improve flow which is not the same as improving predictability.

"Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility." - Principle 9 of the Agile Manifesto.

Agile methods have helped in improving team performances. Adopting the right tool-set that helps in implementing the right development and management discipline is critical for its successful adoption across all teams within the organization. SwiftEnterprise is one such platform that helps Agile teams to -

DevOps, as often implemented in many organizations, has a fairly narrow focus – we look at the engineering improvements that are possible, and pay much lesser attention to alignment across the Value Stream. As a result, there is a growing disenchantment with the business results that DevOps transformations are delivering – and a big part of this disenchantment is our positioning of DevOps as an engineering activity, rather than as its true role as an enabler of the overall IT Value Stream.

Artificial Intelligence has gone from being a buzzword to something that has gained acceptance from people at large. From creating the perfect coffee to helping support agents clear tickets quicker to helping astronauts in space, AI is slowly becoming ubiquitous.