When IT projects grow to a large scale, original agile is not enough. If you have hundreds of people involved in your project, you need a managing superstructure and new roles. SAFe adds a structure to agile, which is built of additional roles and ceremonies.

Consumers want better service, better user experience, better functionality, new products and new solutions, RIGHT NOW. This creates enormous pressure, so companies race to innovate and launch quickly. But there are bear traps: innovation and development go hand in hand with technical debt.

How did governments deal with digital tools in their battles against the epidemic? Did any country fare significantly better than others? In the long run of the pandemic, Germany has made several important decisions and developed relatively successful procedures to manage the COVID-19.

There are many audit software solutions on the market. The challenge is how to choose the best one of them? Which features are crucial for your auditors and your business?

Low-code is a fast and relatively inexpensive way to create business applications. Low-code also means low barriers (no need for advanced programming skills) to start developing apps. Is citizen development the future of IT? Will this be the main way for organizations to acquire new IT applications?

A data lake is a collection of variously structured data coming from different sources and available for different users. It seems that such a solution may mean chaos. Meanwhile, it's used by companies from highly regulated environments, like pharma.

The audit of the future will be digital. This will be forced by the consequences that the coronavirus epidemic for businesses. Companies are undergoing major changes, someone has to effectively monitor the situation, assess risks and ensure regulations compliance.

Companies have picked up the speed of the digitization process by three to four years, with the share of digital or digitally enabled products in their portfolios being accelerated by seven years. This rapid pace is perfectly justified, as an effective transformation into digital has become necessary for the survival of many companies.

Scientists are working on new ways to develop vaccines, with the so-called reverse vaccinology (or Vaccinology 3.0) being one of the main trends. This method of vaccine development is fast, but it requires screening the entire pathogen genome. It's a world of huge volumes of data.

With COVID-19 looming, mindful shopping has become a thing. Consumers are more aware of the way they spend their money; they are more open to switching from products they usually buy to cheaper ones. They also do more research before they make the final purchase decision.