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An interview with David Versteeg, Chief Digital Officer of Van Lanschot Kempen

Creating a custom reference line parallel to Y-Axis denoting a dynamic value (changes on filter selection) on a scatter chart

Amazon web services, being one of the largest cloud platforms, have come up with a new service called AWS Amplify in 2017. AWS Amplify is a set of tools and services designed to make it easy for developers to create and launch apps in AWS, including code libraries, ready-to-use components, and a built-in CLI. With Amplify, you can configure app backends and connect your app in minutes, deploy static web apps in a few clicks, and easily manage app content outside the AWS console. Amplify manages the entire application in 3 parts

Automation is done with the main intent of finding the bug or error in the application in the software development lifecycle or SDLC.

Today, technology plays one of the most important roles in shaping business growth, disrupting the verticals of the industry and driving business modernization – through optimizing the business operations, engaging their users and customers, empowering their workforce, or making changes and updating the products. Owing to their rich capabilities to gain quality insights through connected data-driven solutions, the Internet of Things (IoT) and analytics platforms today are transforming businesses towards innovative business models. 

A growing number of organizations are seeing the value of data-driven decision-making and investing in solutions to use data to strengthen their market position. However, as they put the infrastructure in place, create modern data teams, and train employees, they often notice that something is missing: someone who speaks both the language of the business and technology. Someone who can reliably make data available to the organization, for example, for ‘self-service analytics.’ In today’s data teams, we call this missing link the Analytics Engineer. This article looks at the importance of this role and provides more details on what this function entails.

Strictly following SAFe practices as precisely as possible will not give the desired improvement results. Unfortunately, 'by the book' does not exist in complex systems or implementations. Every organization is different, and we do not take organization specifics like culture or values into account; SAFe will fail to provide benefits. In other words: "context matters."

The Agile Scaled Framework (SAFe) is one of the few scaled Lean and Agile frameworks that explicitly includes Portfolio Management. But, what does Portfolio Management actually entail?