GUIDES & READING for digital trailblazers
CAREER CHECKLIST
12 steps to develop Digital Trailblazer skills
Product Managers and Owners
DevOps Leaders - Dev, QA, IT Ops, SREs
Data Leaders - Scientists, DataOps, Governance
…. Breadth of skills, depth of skills, and experiences
Chapter 1: What’s a Cookie?
Slow Down and Stop Deploying Buggy Software
CIO Advice: Listen, Answer The Question, Provide Insights
Executive Presentations: Presenting Status vs. Strategy
How to Alert on Technical Debt, Legacy, and Burning Platforms
How Digital CIOs Manage Their Time
Vader, release him - Do Your Executive Meetings Resemble This Classic Star Wars Scene?
10 Reasons to Attend Technology Conferences
Chapter 2: Dev - Spaghetti Code and Technical Debt is Now Your Problem
Convincing agile product owners to prioritize technical debt
What are Seven Types of Big Data Debt
5 Ways to Better Manage Technical Debt
How Low-Code and No-Code Really Helps Reduce Tech Debt and Drive Innovation
5 reasons software architects should embrace low code
7 low-code platforms developers should know
7 keys to selecting a low-code platform
I get into the weeds in Chapter 2, and one Digital Trailblazer shared this with me. “Chapter 2 was great insight on your journey in technology. It puts your lessons on innovation in perspective.”
Technology is messy, and we rarely develop perfect, long-lasting solutions. We are always updating, enhancing, and improving. I hope you find value in the stories, articles, and videos because as a Digital Trailblazer, technical debt is now YOUR problem.
Chapter 3: Ops – Wearing the CEO’s Diet Coke
Avoid Burnout: 3 Really Simple Activities to Reduce Stress in Hybrid Work Teams
5 ways agile devops teams can support IT service desks
What is DevOps in 5 Minutes with @NYIke
Who Owns DevOps???
Seize the Day! The Ops Role in DevOps Transformation
3 reasons devops must integrate agile and ITSM tools
3 Emerging Ways IT Benefits from AIOps
Chapter 4: Product Management and Architecture: Trials and Triumphs
10 Practices of Strong Agile Product Owners
20 Bad Behaviors of Agile Development Product Owners
6 Easy Ways to Lead Product Owners and Drive Meaningful MVPs
How to Rapidly Plan Digital Products and bring Amazing MVPs to Market Smarter and Faster
10 Critical Mistakes Products Owners Make When Developing MVPs
How Agile Delivery Managers Collaborate with Product Managers and Drive DevOps Standards
Four Critical Product Management Responsibilities in Digital Transformation
Chapter 5: “That’s Not Agile”: Defining Your Organization’s Agile Way of Working
Agile Practices
What is agile methodology? Modern software dev explained
Five Reasons Your Agile Practices Fail to Deliver Results
When Should DevOps Teams Increase Deployment Frequency
How Feedback Loops Drive Culture Change in Agile
33 Bad Behaviors of Agile Developers and IT Operations
Knowledge management for agile and devops teams
3 Problems with Just-in-Time Planning and Solving Them
Agile Roles
What is the Role of the Tech Lead in Agile?
What is the Modernized Role of Scrum Masters
3 Important Responsibilities of Business Analysts in Agile
What SREs want application developers to know
The CIO's role in driving agile transformation
Agile Leadership
Chapter 6: Transforming Experiences with a Global Perspective
In Chapter 6, I share one of my experiences traveling to India visiting amazing teams in Chennai, Kolkata, and Hyderabad. As promised, here are photos from my trips between 2008 and 2013.
Top 10 Reasons to Visit Your Offshore Teams
Three Agile Insights Working With Offshore Teams
Sprint reviews and retrospectives in a hybrid work setting
5 Ways to Improve Developer Productivity and Quality on Agile Development Teams
3 Expert Questions to Focus on Winning Digital Transformations
How to Reduce the Talent Gap while Growing Analytics, Data Governance, and App Modernizations
Want to change the culture? Start with your front line support teams!
Chapter 7: Buried in Bad Data
Agile Data Practices
Why Data Science, DataOps, and Data Governance need Agile Methodologies
Four Agile Workstreams in a Data Driven Organization
3 ways to apply agile to data science and dataops
Citizen Data Science
Energize a Center of Excellence that Empowers Citizen Data Scientists
5 ways to improve on spreadsheets for business workflows
3 Practical Ways to Become a Citizen Data Scientist and Learn Machine Learning
What Data Scientists Can Learn From a Fourth Grade Teacher
Machine Learning
Fundamentals of MLOps, ModelOps, and Successful Machine Learning Lifecycles
3 ways to get into reinforcement learning
3 ways to experiment with text analytics
Proactive Data Governance
How to Expand Data Governance with Successful Citizen Data Science
What is Proactive Data Governance?
Data-Driven Organizations: What are Principal Responsibilities of Successful Chief Data Officers
How to Persuade CEO to Sponsor Proactive Data Governance
DataOps and Data Technologies
Chapter 8: Transformative Culture, Empathetic Teams, Diverse Leaders
My Most Challenging Tech Presentation Was to Middle School Teenagers
5 Ways to Say Thanks to Teams Driving Digital Transformation
Developing a Strategy for Putting People First in Transformation Programs
How are you rewarding top performers in digital transformation, data science, agile, and devops programs?
Digital Transformation is not a 9-5 Job
CIO Must Pivot to a Safer-Smarter World
5 Steps to Create a Meaningful Communication Strategy in Tech, Digital, and Data Departments
Transforming cultures, empathetic teams, diverse leaders
Chapter 9: Selling Innovation to the C-Suite—and Reducing the Stress
How Agile Planning can Boost Digital Business Transformation
3 Ways to Empower High-Performing Agile Innovation Teams
Define Your WoW! Agile, DevOps, Product Mgt Way of Working
How to Focus Stakeholders on the Benefits of Agile Planning & Experimenting
Leadership Skills to Master in Digital Transformation Roles
3 Ways: Reform Detractors who Undermine Agile & Digital Transformation
7 Leadership Detractors to Digital Transformation & What to do
Selling innovation to the C-Suite
Chapter 10: Transforming Beyond Crisis and Becoming a Digital Trailblazer
5 Steps: Communicate Pivots in Volatile Digital Transformations
15 Behaviors that Kill Agile Cultures, 5 to Pioneer Agile Mindsets
3 Ways: Break off Change Management & Drive Transformation
What is Digital Transformation 2.0
Why I am Passionate About Digital Transformation Management
3 Ways to Define KPIs for Successful Digital Transformation
3 Signs You Have an Ambitious Digital Trailblazer Excited to Lead Transformation Teams
Chapter 10: Becoming a Digital Trailblazer
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