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What is a business analyst? A key role for business-IT efficiency

CIO

Business analyst job description BAs are responsible for creating new models that support business decisions by working closely with finance and IT teams to establish initiatives and strategies aimed at improving revenue and/or optimizing costs. Business analyst skills The business analyst position requires both hard skills and soft skills.

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3 force multipliers for digital transformation

CIO

But 2023 is shaping up to be paradoxical, and after speaking to hundreds of CIOs over the past couple of years, I have been advising them to seek force multipliers in their digital transformation initiatives. One of the common complaints agile team members voice is the number of coordination meetings and time spent in them.

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

Codegiant

From the desk of a brilliant weirdo #1: Are your hand shivering and pouring yourself with sweat right before your scrum master interview? If so, this “ Scrum Master Interview Questions and Answers ” article can, without a doubt, boost your confidence up and put your worries at rest.

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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. Hi, I’m your Scrum Master,” she says. Artistic skills.

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Story Points and Planning Poker: How to Make Estimates in Scrum and Agile

Altexsoft

In software development, estimates have to be done to evaluate the duration and cost of the project and quite understandably, stakeholders want them to be as accurate and reliable as possible. With time, they became a common metric in Scrum and other Agile methodologies and in many cases replaced estimations in time or money.

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Software Development Life Cycle?—?The Ultimate Guide [2020]

Codegiant

Software Development Life Cycle?—?The The Ultimate Guide [2020] [link] The software development life cycle is about producing high-quality software promptly. And your team needs to follow the software development life cycle steps to achieve that. It’s also essential that your team adheres to the proper SDLC model.

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20 Deadline Management Tips Scrum Masters Should Consider

Codegiant

While producing this blog post, I collaborated with our in-house software development team. And the very first question I shot their way was: “What are some of your biggest software development nightmares?” Deadlines are any software development team’s biggest nightmare. Trust me?—?new

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