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Blog created for For current and aspiring digital transformation leaders, including CIO, CTO, CDO, innovation leaders, product managers, DevOps engineers, SREs, and data governance specialists. Author Isaac Sacolick is the author of Driving Digital, and President and CIO of StarCIO.
Social, Agile, and Transformation Blog » DevOps
2w ago
How to measure business value is a question many agile teams ask me, given how much rigor I ask them to put into estimating and capturing story points. Should product managers and product owners have an equivalent responsibility to define a business value metric, use the metric for prioritization, and be held accountable ..read more
Social, Agile, and Transformation Blog » DevOps
2M ago
I invited several experts to my weekly Coffee with Digital Trailblazers to discuss change management, easing adoptions, and minimizing the productivity dip. Participants heard a change management playbook. We used the productivity dip (illustrated below) as a reference model as it’s a useful tool to illustrate ..read more
Social, Agile, and Transformation Blog » DevOps
4M ago
I just read about how CIOs are taking it slow regarding generative AI in the enterprise. “The hard thing about this is you don’t have data on people’s level of productivity,” said Sharon Mandell, CIO at Juniper Networks, while Kathy Kay, executive VP and CIO at Principal Financial Group, created a study group of “a ..read more
Social, Agile, and Transformation Blog » DevOps
4M ago
2023 is coming to a close. I’ve had a difficult year and won’t be able to share details for a while, but I’ve had several close friends and colleagues to support me. Many of them join my weekly Coffee with Digital Trailblazers and contribute on stage to our discussion on digital transformation leadership. This ..read more
Social, Agile, and Transformation Blog » DevOps
5M ago
“Look at your company as if it were your first day on the job. What would your first impressions be of how your business is operating?” That’s my opening statement to Chapter 1 of Driving Digital, which is just as relevant to CIOs and IT leaders when considering a technology department’s performance. I read this statement ..read more
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Social, Agile, and Transformation Blog » DevOps
5M ago
A couple of weeks ago, I celebrated my 1,000th blog post, an achievement I am just as proud of as publishing my two books, Driving Digital and Digital Trailblazer. In the post, I shared three time-tested lessons for digital trailblazers and thanked many contributors to my weekly Coffee with Digital Trailblazers ..read more
Social, Agile, and Transformation Blog » DevOps
5M ago
Today’s post, my 1,000th published article, marks an achievement I am tremendously proud of and excited to share. Here’s the funny story of how I started writing. My journey into blogging and speaking began 18 years ago when someone told me, “Isaac, great social networking site, but it needs to plug into the blogosphere ..read more
Social, Agile, and Transformation Blog » DevOps
6M ago
How should CIOs and IT leaders prepare their organizations to pursue generative AI opportunities while mitigating risks and navigating cultural and workforce impacts? It’s a top-of-mind question for every CIO, especially as Boards ask about company AI strategy, while 51% of CEOs expect their CIOs to lead the ..read more
Social, Agile, and Transformation Blog » DevOps
7M ago
I’m a strong proponent of hybrid working. Requiring a strict in-office presence can be hard on many employees with long commutes, family caretakers, or people with physical disabilities. The collaboration needed by Digital Trailblazers, especially ones leading DevOps and agile teams, is rarely achieved by jumping from ..read more
Social, Agile, and Transformation Blog » DevOps
7M ago
I can’t imagine guiding large-scale digital transformations without knowledgeable and influential architects. Architects guide solutions, seek standard practices, and target building extendable and reusable platforms and services. Without architects, organizations add risk to their implementations that can delay releasing capabilities ..read more