Agile development: How to tackle complexity and get stuff done

IT professionals face an almost never-ending to-do list of projects. IT leaders tell us how to make sure you focus on the right priorities.

These are complex times. From rapid technological advances to fast-changing customer demands, IT professionals face an always-growing list of challenges.

Harvard Business Review says complexity is an increasingly necessary element for viability and competitiveness in today’s unpredictable business environment. If you want to get ahead, then you will have to deal with complexity as best you can.

So how can IT professionals manage complexity? The answer, as these three digital leaders show, is to put agility at the centre of the IT organisation and its product development strategy. Here are their best-practice tips for getting things done in an iterative manner.

Raspberry Pi 400: Its designer reveals more about the faster Pi 4 in the $70 PC’s keyboard

Raspberry Pi designer shows off the custom PCB for the Raspberry Pi 4 inside the new $70 Pi 400 keyboard computer.

Raspberry Pi’s designers have revealed more about the overhauled design of the Raspberry Pi 4 inside its new Raspberry Pi 400 keyboard computer.

The new $70 Raspberry Pi 400, announced on Monday, offers fans of the Raspberry Pi single-board computer a polished, modern take on far less powerful classics from the 1980s like the BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum and Commodore Amiga.