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10 Data Protection Questions to Ask Before Starting a New Project

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Does your project include processing of personal data? Yes, you'll have a data protection officer or some other similar role on the team, but you also need to have some basic understanding for what it means for changing your process or building your new software or feature. Or any other kind of data? GDPR and data protection.

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How to Become a More Productive Software Engineer (Productivity Tips & Workflows)

Planio

So how can you become a more productive software engineer? Get control over communication overload. Like any decision-making process, the more information you have the better. Your daily schedule is the foundation of how to be a more productive software engineer. But no one wants to waste their time.

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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

ProjectManager.com

The kanban board is broken down into columns that represent the different stages of a process, and the kanban cards are individual tasks that move from one column to the next as they move through the process. This created less waste and increased the efficiency of processes. When one bin is empty, the next bin refills it.

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What Is IT Management? Why Is IT Important for Businesses?

ProjectManager.com

They include computer programmers, web developers, support specialists, IT technicians, network engineers, database administrators, software engineers, computer scientists, data scientists and IT security specialists. This includes digital services, networking, servers, fixing hardware and software issues, etc.

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Stop normalizing unprofessional behaviour in the name of agility

Scrum.org

Think about the lead software engineer at Volkswagen that got a 3-year prison sentence for following orders and writing code that disabled the catalytic convertor when under emissions tests.

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Agile Laws to Help with Transformation

Scrum.org

Brooks’ Law Frederick Brooks stated in his 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering that “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.” Exercising more command & control to counter complexity does not work, as any experienced leader will note. Learn more about Occam’s Razor.

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Quality Assurance and Testing: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

The Difference Between Quality Assurance and Quality Control. The difference between quality assurance and quality control is subtle but significant, although both terms are often used interchangeably to describe the quality management of the project’s product or service. Principles of Quality Assurance. History of Quality Assurance.

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