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Scrum master certification: Top 13 certs for agile pros

CIO Business Intelligence

The methodology, which is also used beyond software development at some businesses , is at the center of several frameworks such as Scrum, Lean, Kanban , and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). What is Scrum? What is a Scrum master? What can Scrum master certification do for your career?

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Scrum is a powerful framework for implementing agile processes in software development and other projects. This highly adopted framework utilizes short iterations of work, called sprints, and daily meetings, called scrums, to tackle discrete portions of a project in succession until the project is complete. What does a Scrum master do?

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How Agile Scrum is Transforming Sales Teams at Broadcom Software

CIO Business Intelligence

This was the epitome of digital transformation, as companies seemingly overnight adjusted their work routines, putting measures in place that allowed their employees to securely access data and telecommute full-time. Agile and Scrum are often thought to be one and the same, but they’re not. I like to call them “the 3 Cs.”.

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5 Ways Scrum Leaders Drive Astoundingly Successful Collaboration

Social, Agile and Transformation

Product owners, tech leads, and scrum masters are three common roles you find on scrum teams. I've written about their key responsibilities such as product owners prioritizing backlogs, tech leads overseeing estimating, and scrum masters ensuring team collaboration and cohesion. But how should these three leaders collaborate?

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What’s driving the global common data capability at RGA

CIO Business Intelligence

What role is data playing in RGAs profitability and growth? Data is a primary asset to RGAs growth, and our ability to leverage it is critical to increase the speed and precision of our core business processes, such as underwriting and actuarial. Our data capability finds global commonality across all our regional solutions.

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Top 8 IT certifications in demand today

CIO Business Intelligence

While it does not offer certification-specific salary data for agile, according to PayScale the average salary for IT pros with agile development skills is $113,000 per year. Certifications are offered in a variety of topics such as collaboration, CyberOps, data centers, DevNet and automation, design, enterprise networking, and security.

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3 force multipliers for digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Some IT organizations elected to lift and shift apps to the cloud and get out of the data center faster, hoping that a second phase of funding for modernization would come. People still associate agile as primarily a software development practice, yet many organizations use Kanban and Scrum in marketing and other department workflows.

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