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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. Others do not.

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4 nonprofits fostering diversity and career advancement in IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Nonprofit NPower is working to change that by fostering opportunity for those outside traditional IT pipelines through its tuition-free Tech Fundamentals program , which has helped young adults from underserved communities, as well as military members, military spouses, and veterans, forge new careers in IT for over 20 years.

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Streamlining IT for agility

CIO Business Intelligence

Here, agility is essential, and smart IT leaders are doubling down on efforts to streamline IT, whether that involves reprioritizing projects and realigning the IT portfolio, rationalizing applications and pursuing cloud-native approaches, increasing automation through DevOps or AIOps adoption, or overhauling the structure of IT operations.

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Streamlining IT for agility

CIO Business Intelligence

Here, agility is essential, and smart IT leaders are doubling down on efforts to streamline IT, whether that involves reprioritizing projects and realigning the IT portfolio, rationalizing applications and pursuing cloud-native approaches, increasing automation through DevOps or AIOps adoption, or overhauling the structure of IT operations.

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Turning the tide in STEM career roadblocks at Synchrony

CIO Business Intelligence

Synchrony, for example, partners with Girls Who Code , an international nonprofit organization that helps support and increase the number of women in computer science. 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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What is a business analyst? A key role for business-IT efficiency

CIO Business Intelligence

The International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), a nonprofit professional association, considers the business analyst “an agent of change,” writing that business analysis “is a disciplined approach for introducing and managing change to organizations, whether they are for-profit businesses, governments, or non-profits.”

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Top 15 project management certifications

CIO Business Intelligence

Offered by the PMI, the Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) certification is designed to validate your knowledge of agile principles and skills with agile techniques. The exam covers topics including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP), and test-driven development (TDD). Top project management certifications.