CIO Breakfast Series: Why Agile Matters to CIO’s
Want to support your business better? Want to deliver innovation to the business faster? Want to exploit technology in different and unique ways? Want to escape being the infrastructure group?
A recent survey identified that 38% of people questioned were using Agile methods. Forrester over the last 3 years has seen a significant increase in the adoption of Agile approaches. Other data points to the fact that Agile, though adopted at the development team level is finding it hard to break out of development activities into the wider organization. The reality is Water-Scrum-Fall. From a CIO perspective why is it important for Agile to be adopted in a broader context? In this talk Principle Analyst Dave West looks at the adoption of Agile and why its broader adoption is important to the long term of the CIO role. He will describe the business case for a broader Agile adoption and how innovation and organizations that are ‘business agile’ are taking advantage of this approach. He will cover:
- Agile adoption – what is being adopted
- What is stopping the adoption
- What does an Agile delivery organization really look like
- The business case for enterprise agile adoption
- What is means to the CIO of the future
Target Audience: Business owners and C-Level executives.
Thank you to CareWorks Technologies for sponsoring this event.
Speaker Details:
Dave West - Principal Analyst
With more than 16 years of experience in technology, Dave works with Application Development & Delivery professionals. He is a leading expert on software development process, Agile development, Lean thinking, process improvement, project management, and requirements management. His interest in software modeling and application development led to his authoring the book, Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design. He also covers the area of product development and its relationship with software systems development. Dave earned a B.A. in computing and business from Huddersfield University in the UK and a M.Sc. in computer science from Southbank University (UK).