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Is the power of people skills enough to keep gen AI in check?

CIO

There’s been a 23% increase in project communication skills, a 22% increase in professional development skills, and a 13% increase in project management skills, according to the company’s 2024 tech trends report, released in January. IT is not an individual sport,” says Laura Baldwin, president at O’Reilly Media.

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Meet the Coach: Magnus Kollberg

Agile42

For our series of interviews, we sat down with Magnus Kollberg, a Mid Sweden University graduate who has recently joined the agile42 Sweden team as an Agile coach. I spent the last two years coaching a product development unit of 40 software, hardware and production engineers to shift from a waterfall approach to an agile one.

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Agile vs Scrum: Differences & Similarities?—?The Complete Review [2020]

Codegiant

This helps the PM along with the dev team develop a product that suits the needs of the market to a tee. When it comes to Agile project management, managers here don’t tell the team what they should be working on. In contrast, Waterfall, the opposite of Agile, requires in-depth planning for you to hit the ground running.

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What Happens to Managers in Scrum? – Episode 1 of ScrumCast

scruminc

The most common is that we see that one-to-one mapping try to happen is to take the project management office and turn them into Scrum Masters and take your business analysts and enroll them in the Product Ownership role. At some companies where we go to, the project managers instantly become Scrum Masters.

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Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Marketers with Rich Mironov

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Rich Mironov, discuss the all too common disconnect between developers and those on the marketing side of organizations. Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). Understanding the conflict between makers and marketers (6:22).

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Finding Career Opportunities Through Experimentation with Josh Doody

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

And maybe I’ll give sports analogy really quickly, which is-. You can do this in pretty much any sport where this happens. Marcus: I love the sports metaphor. But there’s risks too because I’m siloed, I’m working with one manager. Marcus: Do it. Josh: Let’s talk about American football.

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6 generative AI hazards IT leaders should avoid

CIO

Generative AI is typically not suited for contexts where empathy, moral judgment, and deep understanding of human nuances are crucial,” notes Saurabh Daga, associate project manager of disruptive tech at industry intelligence platform GlobalData.