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What is a Scrum master? A key role for project success

CIO

Scrum is a powerful framework for implementing agile processes in software development and other projects. The Scrum master is the leader of a Scrum team and is responsible for championing a project, providing guidance to the team and product owner, and ensuring all agile practices are followed by team members. Others do not.

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

CIO

The International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), a nonprofit professional association, considers the business analyst “an agent of change,” writing that business analysis “is a disciplined approach for introducing and managing change to organizations, whether they are for-profit businesses, governments, or non-profits.”

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Aerospace’s Steve Isakowitz to speak at TC Sessions: Space 2020

TechCrunch

Isakowitz is the president and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation, a national nonprofit corporation that operates a federally funded research and development center. It addresses complex problems across the space enterprise focused on agility, innovation and objective technical leadership.

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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

CIO

During the pandemic, Chavarin began to build out the pedigree for a formal IT career path, getting multiple agile certifications and working toward a computer science degree. We offer flexible work hours, reimbursement for college classes, and have a pretty good training budget, but if it’s all about money, people can make that elsewhere.”

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Volkswagen drives the automotive industry cloud forward

CIO

Luke’s Health Network, for example, opted to use Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare for its integration, given the nonprofit network’s existing use of several Microsoft products at its 300 locations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. And we learned to be much quicker and more agile.” We have to compete for that talent,” he notes.

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Forecasting 2023 Recruiting Trends With 6 Experts

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

We as a global population are looking at increasing levels of our local, national, and global companies, nonprofits, communities, and organizations to be champions for our rights, ideologies, and values. Companies can also invest in upskilling their current members so they stay agile when responsibilities shift or requirements change.

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Why a CEO needs to understand the technology delivery methodology for the success of the Company’s tech platform?

CEO Tech Tips

The two well know methodologies are Waterfall and Agile. Few initial Product and Regulatory Requirements ( Use Agile) Strict Process in Place (Use Waterfall) High Product Owner involvement (Use Agile) Greenfield product (Use Agile) Fixed & Firm Timeline (Use Waterfall) Fixed, Inflexible Budget (Use Waterfall).

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