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Survey Data Shows That Many Companies Are Still Not Truly Agile - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CA TECHNOLOGIES

Harvard Business

In Today’s Digital Economy, Agile Practices Can’t Be Limited to Just the IT and Development Realms. By Surya Panditi, SVP and GM, Agile Management, CA Technologies. Agile practices have a vital part to play in the rapid delivery and continuous maintenance of software-driven products and services.

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7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024

Progressus

The Power of Unity Firms need real-time insights into the entire business – finance, project accounting, sales, everything – otherwise multiple versions of the truth will start showing up in budgets, estimates, and forecasts. Do you provide hands-on skills training? What kind of impact has that training had on client outcomes?

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Consulting as a Contractor: The Rise of Self-Employment

Tom Spencer

The rise of contractual employment offers businesses the benefit of agility and adaptability by turning full-time employees into freelancers. They also need to manage their own training, resource development, and financing. From a financial perspective, this allows businesses to turn a fixed cost (i.e.,

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2024 Events for Project Managers, Business Leaders, and Industry Professionals

Epicflow

The Forum participants will have an opportunity to learn from inspirational project management leaders as well as attend masterclasses revealing the aspects of delivering sustainable projects, Agile transformation, application of technologies, and more. is the largest Agile conference in Central Europe. PMO London 2024 June, 18-19.

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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

In Part 1 , I suggested that when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. The senior manager has P&L (Profit and Loss) responsibility for the entire product line, including Product Management (for this product line), Customer Support, Training, etc. I was a Director.

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3 Major Forces Disrupting and Transforming the Professional Services Landscape

Progressus

Digital agility. Technology enables greater agility. Again, business leaders will need to prepare employees to make the most of the latest tech and provide ongoing support and training. While these changes might seem like a lot to take on at once, they represent a path toward agility, adaptability, and long-term resilience.

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business

Too often, leaders view such investments as costly training on things that seem to be “common sense” or issues they can afford to get around to later. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR.