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Scrum Guide Release 2020 – Scrum Guide Celebrates 25

scruminc

2020 Scrum Guide Launch. Celebrating 25 Years of Scrum. Join Dr. Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber for a live event featuring the release of the updated Scrum Guide and celebrating 25 years of Scrum. Scrum is a framework and not a methodology. The updated Scrum Guide is leaner but its core remains empirical.

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4 ways upskilling and reskilling can fill hard-to-hire positions

CIO

Within IT, this could mean finding workers to do programing, testing, cybersecurity, operations, project management, or other similar tasks. As an IT leader, the use of these techniques to fill open IT positions has many advantages, including: Reduced costs of filling open positions in a tough recruiting marketplace.

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Member of the Band – Juan Bosco Bustos Cortés, Scrum Master

Gorilla Logic

In this blog series, we’re going to introduce you to members of our band—engineers, technical recruiters, PMs, designers, and more who make up the most important asset in Gorilla Logic…our talent! Juan Bosco Bustos Cortés — Scrum Master. Juan is one of our amazing Scrum Masters here at Gorilla Logic. Are you Gorilla material?

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How to Hire Great Software Engineers – Standards, Tips & More

The Crazy Programmer

Familiarity with common software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall) and tools (Git, JIRA, Jenkins) is also important. Project Management Skills : Although not always required, having project management skills can be beneficial, especially for senior or lead roles where overseeing projects and managing resources is necessary.

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4 nonprofits fostering diversity and career advancement in IT

CIO

Students are taught the IT skills necessary for roles such as desktop analyst, business analyst, and junior project manager. ITSMF develops Black IT leaders Much of the IT industry’s efforts to diversify the workforce focus on entry-level recruitment.

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Product Owner vs. Business Analyst: The Importance of Both

Mentormate

As a Business Analyst at MentorMate, I’m an inseparable part of the scrum team. To achieve this, I maintain the dialogue between the client, the project manager, the product owner, the Scrum Master, and the QA specialists. In my role as a business analyst on that project, I own the business requirements.

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How Tyre Sellers Found His Passion Through Mentorship

Perficient

We recently sat down with Tyre Sellers, a project manager with our Dallas business unit (BU), to learn about his involvement as a mentor and leader for the Dallas Bright Paths cohort. I started as a business consultant and then my role shifted to a project manager role soon after I started. There are no typical days.

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