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The 7 venial sins of IT management

CIO

Leadership is what makes the difference between dragging employees along and their moving in the right direction on their own. Too much leading, not enough managing You’re paid to get work out the door. That’s what managing is all about — making sure the work of the enterprise you’re responsible for gets done. Probably not.

Budget 289
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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

Hire “architects” and require even small changes to have an “architecture review” Require even small changes to have a “security review” Product Dismiss useful metrics on academic grounds (e.g. Pick vanity metrics with little or no correlation with business value and high amount of noise.

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What is SAFe? A framework for scaling business agility

CIO

Lean portfolio management: By applying Lean and systems thinking, SAFe organizations ensure their entire portfolio is aligned and funded to deliver strategic value. This requires strong coordination of decentralized activities as well as governance around spending, compliance, and metrics.

Agile 290
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Scrum master certification: Top 13 certs for agile pros

CIO

The certification is also well-suited for software engineers, business analysts, and project managers. The PMI-ACP requires a secondary degree, 21 contract hours of training in agile practices, 12 months of general project experience within the past five years, and eight months of agile project experience within the past three years.

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Bringing an AI Product to Market

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The Core Responsibilities of the AI Product Manager. Product Managers are responsible for the successful development, testing, release, and adoption of a product, and for leading the team that implements those milestones. Product managers for AI must satisfy these same responsibilities, tuned for the AI lifecycle.

Marketing 145
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What a Great Time to Invest in an Agile Certification! Overview of Your Options: September, 2020

Gorilla Logic

Project Management Institute (founded in 1969) . • International Consortium of Agile (founded in 2010) . Product owner or product manager. If you are a leader/people manager, project manager, Scrum Master then you may want to consider any of these paths. Scrum.Org (founded in 2009) .

Agile 98
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How to use Measurement to Manage Like a Pro

Lead on Purpose

McKinsey Insights ’ Pankaj Ghemawat references a survey of senior executives where 76% of them feel they need to develop global-leadership capabilities, but only 7% of feel they are doing so effectively. Define Your Metrics. Starting from your own performance metrics, you have to extend individualized and group metrics for your team.

Metrics 76