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Ada Developers Academy: A no-cost career program that aims to diversify IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Mariya Burrows wanted to make a career change to software development after taking an introductory course on the topic, but the last thing she wanted to do was take out more student loans. Beatrice Tohni found out about the program when a friend texted her a link to Ada Developers Academy saying, “This sounds like the perfect program for you.”

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Amazon is still struggling to make drone deliveries work

The Verge

A report from Bloomberg details the obstacles hampering Amazon’s efforts to get its delivery drone program off the ground, citing a high employee turnover rate and potential safety risks. According to Bloomberg , there were five crashes over the course of a four-month period at the company’s testing site in Pendleton, Oregon.

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Tech Moves: Flexe hires Amazon biometrics leader; Fresh Chalk founder departs; and more

GeekWire

Founded in 2013, Flexe closed out 2020 with a $70 million Series C round and has raised $134 million in total funding. Prior to Fresh Chalk, Pearce was chief revenue officer at Streem and spent 10 years at project management platform Liquid Planner, including five years as CEO. He will continue to be based in Seattle.

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Top Five Itineraries for the CIO's Offshore Visit

Social, Agile and Transformation

What should a CIO say to the troops - the architects, developers, testers, project managers, business analysts, product owners, engineers, support staff - when you have limited opportunities to meet them face to face? Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization. crisis management. (3). it management. (34).

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My Advice to Engineering Undergraduate Students - Social, Agile.

Social, Agile and Transformation

Some were part of McGraw-Hills summer intern program and some were family friends, but I decided to write some of my core tidbits of advice in a blog post. In my Bachelor program, I think I took only a handful of non-core engineering classes (including math, science, and other requirements). crisis management. (3). about me. (33).

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Why Stories Work where Requirements Documents Fail - Social.

Social, Agile and Transformation

In a traditional development practice, a product manager writes a long document describing the software requirements. The document is handed to analysts who break the requirements down to development tasks and a project manager develops a schedule and assigns resources to tasks. crisis management. (3). it management. (34).

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Four Phases of Maturing Enterprise Agile Development

Social, Agile and Transformation

But of course this also means that 65% are not practicing agile and Im certain that a large number of the 35% are only just maturing their practice. Make sure the business project is appropriate (I will cover in a future post) and make sure its sponsors are willing to participate in the program. crisis management. (3).

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