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10 questions for Emergn CFO Evan Cassidy
February 14, 2012 | Nancy Well | Computerworld
Nancy Well of the IDG New Service talks to Evan Cassidy, CFO of Emergn. Evan is asked 10 questions ranging from how he started out in finance to the what he sees as the biggest challenges facing CFOs today. Evan also gives insights into who he regards as an influential boss and the lessons they taught him about management and leadership, and some great tips for the strengths and qualities he looks for in job candidates.
Not Your Dad’s Agile – Delivering Business Value
February 13, 2012 | Kelly Walters | All About Agile
Since the signing of the Agile Manifesto in 2001, Agile as a software development methodology has entered the mainstream and is not only used in several of the world’s leading companies, but is being applied in areas beyond software development. While Agile today is still very much about teams getting better at building software, it’s also becoming more about moving the rest of the business forward.
The next phase of Agile, the Agile of tomorrow, will focus on delivering business value across a larger landscape including portfolio management, procurement and business strategy. As a result, agile is in the process of moving from development practices to top level business outcomes. These thoughts and more come as a result of a recent Forrester Research report issued earlier this month.
Alex Adamopoulos, agile expert and CEO of Emergn, believes that there are two concurrent states of Agile today.
“Agile” grows up, readies to take over your whole business
February 9, 2012 | Alex Adamopoulos | VentureBeat
Agile, a software development methodology born back in 2001, has now entered the mainstream. According to a Forrester Research report issued last month, Agile is not only used in several of the world’s leading companies now but is being applied in areas beyond software development.
Agile got its start in 2001 with the signing of the Agile Manifesto. It was created to deliver software projects faster, but also with an emphasis on more value. Today, almost all technology companies and businesses that leverage technology in their day-to-day operations have adopted the more efficient method of Agile, also known as Lean software development.
But as the Forrester report points out, Agile has now entered a new stage of its history.
Emergn launches Program Consulting solution to reinvigorate stalled IT projects by applying Agile methodologies
February 9, 2012 | | Business Wire
Emergn, a global services consultancy, today launched a service designed to focus on the successful delivery of IT projects. The service is designed to reinvigorate stalled IT projects to ensure investments have the best chance of success. The new service is specifically designed to deliver effective delivery approaches, by leveraging agile and lean methodologies, to generate near-term results.
What are CIOs thinking? What we can learn from social media conversations
February 9, 2012 | Yvette Francino | SearchSoftwareQuality
Social media is being used more and more in business for a variety of purposes. SSQ recently did a series of articles on the use of social media in ALM and found that it is used both within organizations to foster collaboration as well as a way to connect externally with customers and find out more about what they think of their organization’s product or service. How about to get some insights into what a particular group, such as CIOs, are thinking? Well, Logicalis, an international provider of integrated information and communications technology (ICT) solutions and services, recently listened in on CIOs having conversations at the virtual water coolers and created an article called, “Logicalis Spills CIO Social Secrets: Last Year’s Top Buzzwords.” C-level managers, vendors and technologists will be interested in finding out what results were revealed and we’ll hear directly from one CEO to hear what he thinks of the results.
Alex Adamopoulos, CEO of Emergn, give his thoughts on the Logicalis report.
Social media tools aid in collaboration between business, IT and users
February 9, 2012 | Yvette Francino | SearchSoftwareQuality
Social networking tools and features have made their way into so many of our software applications that they have changed the way we do business. “The market right now is in the exploding phase,” says David Carr, editor of The BrainYard, referring to the vast number of social networking tools that permeate cyberspace. The uses of social media cover the span of the entire software development lifecycle, as early as idea gathering through customer service and everything in between. In this article, enterprise leaders and project managers will learn more about how organizations are using social media features and tools to aid in collaboration between business and IT and ultimately, end users.
Collaboration between business and IT, with or without the aid of social media, is a trend that continues as we see more organizations using an Agile approach that emphasizes collaboration, not just in software development methodologies, but in the way the entire business operates. Alex Adamopoulos, CEO of Emergn, an international PPM and Agile consultancy, sees 2012 as a year in which there will be increased the alignment between business and IT.
Five Reasons Project Portfolio Management Will Matter to CIOs in 2012
February 1, 2012 | Alex Adamopoulos | IT Business Edge
In November of 2011, Gartner predicted that Project Portfolio Management (PPM) would go from managing just business projects to managing value and change, as well. We’ve seen just that with the growing number of PPM software companies and consultancies that have found success in helping businesses look at PPM from a business process perspective. Additionally, a Forrester report found that a comprehensive PPM tool investment can provide an ROI of more than 250 percent.
PPM has been valuable to businesses for quite some time now and is continuing to expand beyond project management, but why should it matter to CIOs? And, why should it matter to them in 2012? Alex Adamopoulos, CEO of Emergn, an international PPM and agile consultancy, has identified five reasons why PPM will matter to CIOs in 2012.
Scenarios of Agile Success
February 1, 2012 | Alex Adamopoulos | Agile Record
In recent years, agile adoption has proven to be beneficial for numerous companies worldwide. Today, companies are looking at IT to improve project delivery success, reliability and increase productivity, whilst taking out cost. As organizations began to see the value of IT from a business process and cost-saving perspective, they began to look at how to change the relationship between IT and the business, and how to best improve the overall flow of value to the customer.
Alex Adamopoulos, CEO of Emergn, tells two short stories about large international businesses that have found and continue to find value in agile, but have also had to overcome obstacles of the wider organization and be mindful of a couple of best practices in order to achieve success.
5 Reasons PPM Will Matter in 2012
January 30, 2012 | Alex Adamopoulos | Business Computing World
Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is set to be one of the hot IT topics for 2012. As a concept, it may sound like stating the obvious – ‘focusing on selecting and managing a set of projects to meet a specific set of business objectives’ – but as I bet many IT directors and CIOs would agree, the reality is that this often does not happen in an efficient way. Alex Adamopoulos, CEO of Emergn, discusses his top five reasons why PPM is going to matter to the IT department in 2012.
The new rules for enterprise apps
January 23, 2012 | Minda Zetlin | Computerworld
To be successful today, enterprise software must be more user-friendly, get updated more often, and offer users outside your company more transparency than ever before.
An insurance company decided to roll out an application for its sales reps. The new app would give them a wider selection of products to offer customers when out in the field. Information on those products was stored in a legacy mainframe system, so the company created a Web interface that let reps query the database to get details on offerings.
The new interface did give access to product information, but it was neither intuitive nor easy to use. “There were long drop-down lists, and it was very form-oriented,” says Alex Adamopoulos, CEO of Emergn, a consulting firm that worked with the insurance company. Alex said that the old rules for enterprise applications, both those built in-house and those licensed from vendors, don’t work in today’s environment and goes on to take a look at a new rule book.
5 Strategies To Fail Fast On IT Projects
January 19, 2012 | Jonathan Feldman | InformationWeek
Even if our resumes and LinkedIn profiles portray us as superhuman, we all fail. And nowhere are those failures more apparent than on some of the big IT projects we lead and manage.
The important question is: How quickly can we fail at something before we make a big investment in it? Failing fast, one of the themes of InformationWeek’s upcoming report on IT project management, is a practice that can save an organization millions of dollars.
Alex Adamopoulos, CEO of Emergn, a project portfolio management consultancy whose customers include British Airways and BT, says he has seen millions of dollars spent on projects before organizations muster the will to declare them a failure.
Project Portfolio Management Brings Opportunity to CIOs in 2012
January 19, 2012 | Marisa Peacock | CMSWire
Call it what you like — SharePoint, Intuit, Central Desktop — project portfolio management is here to stay. A few months ago, Gartner predicted that the role of Project Portfolio Management (PPM) would begin to evolve from just managing business projects to managing value and change. As business strategies transform to focus on both people and technologies, PPM has the potential to help the enterprise get things done.
A recent article published by Alex Adamopoulos, CEO and Paul Dolman-Darrall, Executive Vice President for Global Delivery and Strategy at Emergn, an international PPM and agile consultancy based in London, lists 5 reasons why PPM will matter to CIOs in 2012. Among them, the authors cite improvements to workflow and idea sharing, as well as increased alignment between IT and the bottom line.
5 Reasons PPM Will Matter to CIOs in 2012
January 9, 2012 | Alex Adamopoulos and Paul Dolman-Darrall | PM World Today
There are 5 reasons why Project Portfolio Management (PPM) will matter to CIOs in 2012. As executives for more than 20 years in global service organizations and having worked to help a number of notable organizations and their CIOs such as Maersk, British Airways and the UK government find success in executing their PPM objectives, Alex and Paul offer 5 reasons why PPM will grow in importance in 2012.
Improving supplier relations through Agile
January 5, 2012 | David Rae | ProcurementBlog
In this guest post, Philip Black, chief operating officer of Emergn, a consulting firm focused on IT change initiatives discusses the limitations of traditional supply-chain relationships, where siloes often exist and the people capabilities of suppliers are rarely taken into real consideration. The answer? A suite of methodologies used in the software-development industry.
