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What Erie Insurance does to develop transformational talent

CIO Business Intelligence

When the leadership team at Erie Insurance planned a large-scale transformation, they knew it couldn’t be an IT-only effort. Finally, the way Erie Insurance drives transformation is by leveraging enterprise business agility. With the need to IDEATE in mind, the company takes a multi-pronged approach to talent development.

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20 traits of highly effective project managers

CIO Business Intelligence

To thrive, project managers need to have and hone a complex combination of technical, business, and interpersonal skills. Effective project managers must know how to define the scope of a project , identify necessary resources, and schedule those resources — all part of the technical aspect of the job.

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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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The 10 highest-paying industries for IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

While Silicon Valley still pays top dollar for IT pros, the war for talent has moved beyond the technology industry, with other verticals vying for talented IT workers who have the skills to enable digital transformation, process improvement, change management, and the development of apps and services.

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Enterprise Agile Development - Why you still need Project Managers.

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 Enterprise Agile Development - Why you still need Project Managers.

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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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State of Digital Product Management 2022: Five Takeaways

CIO Business Intelligence

In the survey, 74% of respondents said their organization is making the shift from project management to product management. Projects are great if you’re planning to, say, migrate a data center. On the other hand, projects are not great for software development and delivery. Devops, Software Development

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