Value based prioritisation should be at the centre of any organisation and form the building blocks of any agile methodology.

CEOs must embrace an agile mindset themselves and empower their people to truly see value.

Everyone has heard about the benefits of cloud and how it can accelerate your business, increase collaboration and boost security but with so many providers out there, who do you choose? There's familiarity with the big three - AWS, Azure and GCP, but this doesn't mean your search should end there; other providers, such as Heroku and OpenShift are out there too. However, your company will have unique requirements, which makes choosing a cloud provider overwhelming.

To help you out, we have compiled five of most important factors to consider when making this choice.

If you keep your finger on the ever-flowing pulse of IT, you can't fail to notice the rise of serverless computing. The name implies that a server is something tiresome like a hot water storage tank in a cupboard and that you're probably better off without it. In fact 'serverless' is known within the community to be a somewhat baseless name - many conference-goers jokingly say it could easily have been called 'Jeff'. In the end, the companies that own the most computing resources want to make using their services easier.

DevOps has come a long way in the last 10 years. From its humble beginnings at a tech conference in Toronto, Canada the mash-up between development and operations has grown into a major focus for businesses all over the world.

Organisations know the true value of collaboration, with many providing tools, process and culture to support this, which are typically supplied to business unit silos - the antithesis to collaboration. To complicate collaboration further, many organisations have numerous tools that do similar things with no common or single tool for everyone to use. This environment creates a collaboration blocker, especially when people from different teams or locations try to work together; it's fundamental they have a common platform to capture and plan their work. Ultimately, businesses want to deliver high quality products to clients ASAP and need their IT to support and enable this. So in practise, how can you achieve this?