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Women IT leaders on their climb to the top

CIO

I’ve owned the AI teams, the client teams, service teams, and I’m GM for two businesses — the calling and contact center businesses — and I’ve managed teams upwards of 4,000 people across developers, designers, PMs, etc.” I’ve done a little bit of everything,” she says. Tamecka McKay, CIO for the City of Ft.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Square buys Afterpay, paid search basics, career advice for devs

TechCrunch

Developers may delight in solving complex technical problems, but the problem of a career path is one many don’t think much about, Juniper Networks CTO Raj Yavatkar writes in a guest column. He offers a solution that should appeal to developers and engineers: “??Treat Image Credits: jayk7 (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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Matching Incident Management Roles and Responsibilities to Process

xmatters

This isn’t to say that the existing process was bad, but like anything worthwhile it needed to evolve. We knew that responsiveness from our incident teams wasn’t an issue, as the teams have always gathered within minutes. Through this exercise we discovered that most of our incidents didn’t need large teams.

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Knowledge Bases

The Programmer's Paradox

Software development is extremely complex. Management Business Most programmers tend towards believing that technology is the most significant issue in software development, but usually the problems start in other areas and feed back into the development work. Development meetings are a good place to assess management.

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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Whole Team. The Hole Team. Modern software development takes a lot of skills.

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The Big Picture of Business- Professional Education Necessary for Company Success

Strategy Driven

Professional education is an important ingredient in corporate development. It is usually technical or sales/marketing in nature. Employees and executives are rarely mentored on the people skills necessary to have a winning team. Employees and executives are rarely mentored on the people skills necessary to have a winning team.

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35 Fleshed-Out Scrum Master Interview Questions and Answers [2020]

Codegiant

Without further ado: Scrum Master Role & Responsibilities (Overview) It’s the Scrum Master’s responsibility to bring the development team on the same page by teaching them all the values and principles that fundamentally shape Scrum and, respectively, Agile. There are no team members complaining about work environments.

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