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• Macquarie Bank competing with 'the last app you used', says digital architect

  Macquarie Bank is competing with ‘the last application that you used on your mobile’ says its digital architect.

• 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

• Westpac CIO: How my ‘200-year-old startup’ stays agile

  ​Remaining agile is one of the biggest challenges facing CIOs today, says Westpac Group tech chief Dave Curran.

• ​How Jeff Smith built an Agile culture at IBM

  IBM’s global CIO, Jeff Smith, has been practising and succeeding with Agile methodologies for years – you could say that Telstra’s former IT chief is about as agile as one can get.

• ​Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the most agile of them all?

  Winter falls on Canberra again and the cardigans come out of the mothballs. It’s the funky new ‘agile’ cardigan this year, newly beloved of our nation’s leaders.

• ​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.
  

• ​Why Agile and DevOps is shaking up management

  Middle and senior managers are not exactly sure what their role should be in an Agile world, says David Gee

• ​What DevOps automation looks like in AWS

  DevOps isn’t just about getting the culture right – it’s also about the products and tools that will help guide your move to a more agile, smoother development approach.

• ​Agile’s so last season. What’s next?

  If you think many technology trends are as fleeting and fast as a CEO’s tweet, consider the fickle world of fashion.
  

• ​Make it so! Agile is not an instruction

  Make it so! Every CIO would like to be Captain Jean-Luc Picard and cast the spell. And so it is with Agile methodologies.

• ​When the stars are aligned, use Agile

  While the Agile approach to systems development has many proponents, but it is not a panacea for management seeking to quickly seize a business opportunity.

• ​The customer experience algorithm

  All companies are on a journey to transform their customer experience and taking various approaches to this, but what are the basic elements of this equation?

• Trends you need to be aware of in 2016

  Organisations in Australia and New Zealand have traditionally lagged behind more mature markets such as the United States and United Kingdom in their adoption of new technology. But are we closing the gap?

• ​6 ways to avoid tech contract disputes

  IT project failures have not abated. Many have common themes. There are some practical steps you can take to better protect your legal position in the event of a problem

• ​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.