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What They Don’t Teach You About Running a Business When Taking Your CS Degree
Francesco Cesarini shares business lessons learnt while growing Erlang Solutions from a one man band to a multinational company with 70 employees, offices in 3 countries, and clients on 5 continents.
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Service-Orientation for ITIL
Filippos Santas explains how to apply service-orientation principles, patterns, processes and SOA governance precepts to ITIL's service lifecycle stages, key processes and activities.
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The Value Proposition for Agility–A Dual Perspective
Hakan Erdogmus and John Favaro explain why agility is good and when. They associate agility with flexibility which can lead to a better but more costly decision making process.
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Creativity, Energy, Imagination and The Business Value of Joy!
Richard Sheridan presents tools and techniques for creating an intentional culture of joy lacking fear and ambiguity, the most productive environment in his opinion.
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Technical Debt - Why You Should Care
Felipe Rubim discusses several forms of technical debt, emphasizing that every member of the team should consider it, and suggesting taking concrete steps in measuring and reducing it.
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Agile Does Not Guarantee Value Creation
Leonardo Mattiazzi considers that Scrum and XP are not enough, and complementary Lean principles and practices are necessary to create an Agile culture across the entire enterprise in order to succeed
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Proving the Business Value of SOA
Anne Thomas Manes discusses SOA goals and objectives used to measure a system’s success, measuring the business value, SOA project metrics, and recommendations on proving the business value of SOA.
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Zero Investment SOA
Eric Jan Malotaux discusses implementing SOA in small iterative steps, each step delivering value to stakeholders, using feedback from previous steps to adjust the requirements and design accordingly.
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Deriving Agility from SOA and BPM - Ten Things that Separate the Winners from the Losers
Manas and Clemens discuss deriving business agility from SOA and BPM, how SOA and BPM enable agility, and pitfalls/recommendations for organizational culture, business and technical architectures.
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Obscured by Clouds
Russ Miles and Toby Hobson outline many factors to be considered when adopting a cloud solution, creating a wider view of the cloud from the development and business perspective.
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Making the Business Case
We know solving DevOps problems improves your business operations but how do you do you explain that to your CEO or CFO? How do you get the executives to buy in and invest in DevOps solutions?
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Next Generation of Business-Driven SOA: The Convergence of Performance-Driven Business and Service-Orientation
John DesJardins believes that the new SOA will measure their businesses alignment with IT in order to asses the impact of services or of changes or new initiatives, up-time, response time, etc.