Digital program management is the art and science of delivering business outcomes through technology.
It is the art of connecting the creatives with the techies, and the science of designing a program structure, cadence, and timing to enable everyone to work, play, and succeed together.
Managing technical debt is one of the most critical tasks in digital program management. In addition, it can determine sustained success or eventual failure. Recently, authors in software development and DevOps have stressed that digital programs must allocate a fixed amount of development bandwidth to pay down technical debt, or Read more…
A few years ago, I arrived in Chicago on a cold winter night to join a large digital transformation program as a digital project manager. It had already been underway for several months. The team members all seemed bright and capable. The scope of the project, though ambitious, was well Read more…
As we near the closing of a year marked by a global pandemic, political headwinds, and rising stress levels, the drive for all things digital is hotter than ever. By some accounts, the pandemic has accelerated timelines for digital transformation, with some CIO’s stating they are already exceeding targets for Read more…
After years of steady growth, the API economy has hit new highs this year. ProgrammableWeb now hosts over 22,000 public API’s as of July 2019, having grown ten-fold since 2010. Navigating the API economy has become a central tenet of the digital strategy of organizations worldwide. In one study, digital leaders API-enabled Read more…