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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.

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What is a project manager? The lead role for project success

CIO Business Intelligence

What is a project manager? Project managers play the lead role in planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing out projects. They are accountable for the entire project scope , the project team and resources, the project budget, and the success or failure of the project.

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7 tell-tale signs of fake agile

CIO Business Intelligence

The same is not true, sadly, for many agile project management and development initiatives. When a team lacks a dedicated product owner and/or Scrum master , it will struggle to implement the consistent agile practices needed to continuously improve and meet predictable delivery goals. Losing the forest for the trees.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Within IT, this could mean finding workers to do programing, testing, cybersecurity, operations, project management, or other similar tasks. As an example outside of IT, research has shown that it’s easier for a person who can speak two languages to learn a new language, than a person who only speaks one language to learn a second one.

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Product-based IT: A blueprint for success

CIO Business Intelligence

For veteran CIO Amir Arooni, the aha moment came during a master’s dissertation deep dive into why there were so many IT project failures. Establish product ownership Traditional IT project teams are no match when the goal is all about building solutions quickly and being hyper responsive to customer needs. Jamie Holcombe Jr.,

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Federal Government Signals Interest In Several Key Leading Edge Technologies

CTOvision

The goal of researchers working in pervasive computing is to create smart products that communicate unobtrusively. This requires well-trained and specialized teams capable of self-management, communication and decision-making. .” Pervasive computing devices are completely connected and constantly available.

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Agile Process Improvement Using. Agile! - Social, Agile, and.

Social, Agile and Transformation

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Who should be the scrum master? and business transformation. Tuesday, March 08, 2011. Isaac Sacolick.

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