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Turning the tide in STEM career roadblocks at Synchrony

CIO Business Intelligence

Roughly 26% of tech jobs in the US are held by women, a decrease from about 33% in 2019, according to CompTIA’s 2023 State of the Tech Workforce report. BLP Tech members have the opportunity to complete their Scrum master certification and go on to receive AWS certification as part of their rotation.

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Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

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The cloud journey completed Even before the system landscape is changed, Volvo Cars has made its cloud journey — one of the big, ongoing programs when Altehed started his role in 2019. “We The result, for example, is no more roles such as scrum master and release train engineer, while project managers and program managers have returned. “So

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5 key mistakes IT leaders make at board meetings

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They assume their board lacks technical expertise In 2019, MIT reported that only 24% of US boards of companies with over $1 billion in revenue were digitally savvy. So too is the case for many IT leaders I speak with. With that in mind, here are five common mistakes IT leaders make when participating in board meetings.

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6 smart practices for better business-IT alignment

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That person is now a Scrum master at a major insurance company. So far, about 1,000 Liberty Mutual executives have taken the program since it began in 2019. We started originally with our top 100 leaders, but we’ve been expanding it.” Given its audience, the curriculum is surprisingly advanced.

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Team Leadership in the Age of Agile

Speaker: Roy Osherove, Technology and Leadership Consultant

To do this, you've learned a wide variety of techniques and methodologies - SCRUM, Kanban, TDD, DevOps, self-organized teams, and much more. February 21 2019 12.30 However, as software leaders, we often find that as we go to implement these approaches, we feel stuck. Which leadership styles are most effective for each mode.

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Broadcom Software Return to Face-to-Face Customer Engagements

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Talk about timing: just as we completed the acquisition of Symantec in November 2019, a global pandemic hit. Tom has experience in Cyber, Software, and Outsourcing industries over the last 20 years, with strong focus on using Agile Scrum frameworks. About the Author: Broadcom Software. Enterprise, IT Leadership