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• CTO wanted for Scottish Pacific Business Finance

  Scottish Pacific Business Finance is on the lookout for a NSW-based CTO to oversee and develop the company’s technology platform and strategy.

• ANZ pitches 'NWOW' agile approach to employees as roll-out begins

  For three days last week, the lobby level of ANZ Bank’s Melbourne headquarters was turned into a bustling marketplace.

• Is a ‘fixed price’ Agile contract possible?

  Finding it difficult to put together fixed price contracts under your existing IT procurement guidelines as you move to an Agile approach to software development? Well, you’re not alone.

• Trim your governance and get agile: CBA’s Stuart Mitchell

  Organisations must trim the layers of governance built up over many years for traditional waterfall tech projects or fall victim to more agile startups, says CommBank’s senior agile coach, Stuart Mitchell.

• ANZ bank goes all-in with 'Scaled Agile' approach

  ​ANZ bank is “shaking up its management style” by rolling out a 'scaled Agile' approach across its Australian division.

• Clive Rossiter's stupid rule revolution

  Little did he know, the head of the Single Business Service ICT programme at the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science was about to start a cultural revolution that within six months would see the department’s executive board putting hands on hearts and pledging allegiance.

• ANZ CIO: 'We want to be a more open bank'

  “I want the inside of ANZ to look like the outside world from a technology perspective,” says CIO Scott Collary

• ​Can you really do Agile software development without being DevOps-enabled?

  I believe that to be Agile, you need to be able to release software out to your customers early, and frequently. If you can’t do this, then you can’t gain the key benefits.
  

• ​Western Power speeds up electricity outage detection

  WA-government owned energy supplier, Western Power, has deployed a cloud-based data analytics solution that enables engineers to investigate the locations and underlying causes of repeated outages across its 250,000 square kilometre network.
  

• Ex-CIO Rafaela Salzer on making the leap from corporate to startup

  From stringent processes to Agile, from big budgets to small ones, from wearing only the IT-business hat to wearing all hats – there is a lot to learn when leaving the corporate world to build a startup.

• How CIO Pradip Sitaram turned around a messy, untrusted IT environment

  Most people looking at a messy spaghetti ball of disparate IT systems, with a traditional work culture, would probably say 'no thanks'. But not Pradip Sitaram, who took on that challenge five years ago when he joined Enterprise Community Investment in the US as CIO.

• Making the case for Agile

  Agile methodology is moving out of the software development team and becoming a core part of IT and business collaboration.

• Why Australia Post and NAB have adopted agile methodologies

  Adopting an agile approach to business innovation requires a sense of urgency, commitment to change, organisational vision and an ongoing focus on momentum and support.