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• Fairfax Media taps Rainer Rhedey as tech GM, replacing CIO

  Fairfax Media has named Rainer Rhedey as general manager of technology, a new role that replaces the duties and responsibilities of CIO Robyn Elliott, who resigned late last year.

• Sharing the stories of the CIO50: #18 Jeremy Hubbard, UBank

  UBank has been on a 12-month journey to transform the business, according to head of digital and technology, Jeremy Hubbard.

• Bankwest unveils ‘Halo’ payment ring

  Bankwest on Thursday launched ‘Halo’, a ring that enables users to make ‘tap and go’ payments as an alternative to cash or a contactless card.

• Telstra’s investment in digitisation paying off, CIO says

  A year ago an agent in Telstra’s service centre may have had to access nine systems in order to help a customer deal with a fixed-line NBN fault. Today, the same task can be done from a single interface.

• CIO50 2017 #9: Simon Noonan, Sportsbet

  “When I first started working at Sportsbet, I wasn’t sure what to expect,” CIO Simon Noonan says.

• PepsiCo’s new agile HQ is no fizzer

  In December 2016, PepsiCo Australia and New Zealand completed the transformation of its corporate HQ in Chatswood, Sydney. Its traditional, siloed office was canned and replaced with a more agile working environment.

  The transformation at the multinational food, snack and beverage company was led by CIO Ursula Phillips.

  Phillips and her team have created a truly mobile workforce. All 300 staff members, including the CEO, received a laptop, mobile phone and Bluetooth earpiece. Office walls were replaced with open workspaces or 'neighbourhoods' where staff can collaborate at hot desks, in meeting rooms, chat spaces, and purpose-built video conference rooms.

• When to kill (and when to recover) a failed project

  Admitting project failure is never easy, but sometimes the kill decision turns out to be the best decision. Here's how to know when to scrap and when to save a failing project.

• Why your trendy office is bad for business

  ​Across the nation, cubicles have been dismantled and office doors discarded to make space for Fussball tables, treadmill desks and foam-padded ‘pods’. But are hip, open-plan office spaces good for productivity? A growing body of research suggests not.

• Sportsbet’s millennials punt pays off

  Established in Darwin in 1993, Sportsbet was Australia’s first licensed bookmaker. Bought out in 2005 at a time when the popularity of face-to-face bookmakers was fading, the company provided punters with simple and easy ways to make bets over the phone and online.

• 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.

• ANZ seeks partner to rethink architecture for agile

  The bank yesterday announced it was starting a formal process to appoint a systems integration partner "to assist in the scoping and design of our technology architecture" to support its new organisation-wide agile approach.

• 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.

• Foreign exchange firm OFX does Agile right

  When Craige Pendleton-Browne arrived at ASX-listed foreign exchange firm OFX in late 2015, the technology team was already doing Agile. Or at least, they thought they were.

• Yahoo7 CTO Paul Russell on the media giant's stack overhaul

  ​In the highly competitive online news industry, readers are unforgiving of sluggish sites, poor user experience and dated features.

• 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.