Blogs

May 22, 2023

How Agile Value Management Creates Value Faster

Today’s CIO needs an integral view of team performance and the quality of and risks in an application.

Apr 21, 2023

Five Cost Management Tips for IT Leaders

Our cost-saving measures will help you maximize the efficiency of your organization’s IT operations.

Apr 14, 2023

Addressing The Complexities of IT Budgeting: Key Issues and Solutions for Today’s IT Management

Be more effective and transparent with our solutions to 5 key budgeting issues.

Mar 24, 2023

Portfolio Insight for CIOs to Highlight your Business Value

In our January leadership strategy blog we shared our top four opportunities to create leverage for real changes with limited investment. One of them was to create a good portfolio insight. In this blog we want to dig a little deeper in how you can create that insight and what it can bring to you.

Mar 17, 2023

What Companies Get Wrong When They Evergreen Their IT

Companies are implementing Evergreen IT. What are the risks and how can it be most effectively applied to your organization.

Feb 10, 2023

3 Harmful Mistakes Companies Are Making In Cloud Cost Management

By applying learned lessons, you can more optimally use the cloud and control your cloud spend.

Jan 12, 2023

Top 4 Effective Changes A Budget-Conscious IT Organization Can Make In 2023

Do you have a limited IT budget? Read through IDC’s recommendations for making a big impact on improving the software development lifecycle with little investment.

Sep 13, 2022

Winning The War For Talent With IT Service Cost Management

When organizations in all industries are struggling to attract talent, IDC explores opportunities for dealing with this shortage.

Aug 5, 2022

Do You Know About the Agile Control Maturity Model (ACMM)?

How to bring objective metrics into application development team performance (and why you’d want to).

Jul 15, 2022

IT As A Value Adder Instead Of A Cost Center

When IT departments have trouble demonstrating their true value, IDC shares ways to make IT seen as customer-focused and high quality.

Jun 6, 2022

Digital Transformation and Cloud Technology: Where Application Development Falls Short

When IT departments have trouble demonstrating their true value, IDC shares ways to make IT seen as customer-focused and high quality.

May 10, 2022

Executive Brief: 3 Agile Pitfalls and How to Overcome Them (As Seen On The Enterprisers Project)

Many teams struggle to reap the full value of Agile development. Consider these tips to maximize the benefits.

Feb 18, 2022

Think You’re Achieving Full Cloud Cost Savings With Tools? Think Again.

48% of enterprises plan to keep spending steadily on Cloud, according to IDC research, making Cloud costs a focus for IT leaders. And, the majority of organizations believe they’re overspending on Cloud.

Feb 11, 2022

How Agile Development Teams Can Resolve Agile Measurement Challenges With Function Point Analysis

Agile development empowers teams with many benefits but also presents challenges around managing and measuring its effectiveness. The way to resolve these is Function Point Analysis.

Jan 26, 2022

IT’s New Year’s Resolution For Cloud Cost Savings

This IDC Metri blog is the first of a two-part series that brings IT to reckoning about the shortcomings that often cause them to give up on efforts needed to cut wasteful cloud spending.

Jan 7, 2022

Agile Value: How Can You Manage What You Can’t Measure

Many organizations find Agile development challenging to manage and measure around delivering value yet it becomes possible to realize through a quantitative set of processes.

Dec 6, 2021

A Management Primer: How Agile Development Teams Can Deliver Value

Organizations will overcome challenges in quantifying Agile value by embracing a solution that assesses, benchmarks and course corrects Agile development teams.