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Taking the Canadian Insurance Industry Digital

Cloud Musings

. - McKinsey & Company Founded in 1871, Economical Insurance operates within the old and relatively static Property and Casualty (P&C) insurance industry. According to the American Insurance Association (AIA) , the modern insurance industry, developed primarily in England after the Great London Fire in 1666.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Agile certs such as the Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) can give you a leg up, as can Scrum-based certs such as the Certified ScrumMaster (CSM). See our lists of top agile certs and top Scrum credentials to take your career to the next level. In fact, the Bureau of Labor Statistics outlook for project managers is bright.

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6 smart practices for better business-IT alignment

CIO Business Intelligence

That person is now a Scrum master at a major insurance company. These can range from simple “lunch and learn” meetings to formal educational programs, such as the one at insurance giant Liberty Mutual, which has created an internal tech literacy program for its non-tech employees. Andrew Palmer. Liberty Mutual.

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Enterprise Agile Development - Why you still need Project Managers.

Social, Agile and Transformation

Ive been asked lately about the role of project managers on agile or SCRUM teams. Some specifics: Scrum and agile are very team and inward facing. Project managers help manage all the external dependencies including vendors, suppliers, partners, infrastructure teams, security concerns, etc. Agile practices evolve.

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Top 15 project management certifications

CIO Business Intelligence

From hardware and software upgrades to ongoing security patches, to application development and the rollout of software itself, project managers keep your teams on task and productive. The exam covers topics including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP), and test-driven development (TDD). Certified Project Management (CPM).

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Federal Government Signals Interest In Several Key Leading Edge Technologies

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Cloud infrastructure and mobile applications are still major aspects within the field using project management and technical approaches like SCRUM which employs real-time decision-making processes based on actual events and information. In a computing context, the term security implies cybersecurity. Extended Cybersecurity.

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Transforming IT for cloud success

CIO Business Intelligence

Then he broke up those distinct, independent teams and created Scrum teams staffed by product owners , business analysts , solution architects , front-end developers, back-end developers, and testers. And he hired agile coaches to work with his IT team.

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