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10 Data Protection Questions to Ask Before Starting a New Project

Rebel’s Guide to PM

That’s quite broad, and covers things like: Name Address Data of birth Location data gathered from browser history Identification number, such as a customer reference number, as long as that can be tied back to a person Online identifier, like a social media user name. What’s the data protection risk? Projects create a lot of data.

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

ProjectManager.com

Information technology, more commonly referred to as IT, is using hardware, software and the supporting infrastructure to manage and deliver data through various means, such as voice, video, etc. This includes accounting, procurement, project management, risk management , compliance and more. What Is Information Technology (IT)?

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Current State and Future Prospects of Scrum and Agile Development in Japan

Scrum.org

Adoption of different methods and practices in Japan ( "DX White-Paper Executive Summary" Information-Technology Promotion Agency p11 ) Japanese culture Japanese businesses have a strong desire to avoid risk and minimize unexpected events. The first one is that the Japanese people are too risk-averse to ever dare embrace agility.

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Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects

Herding Cats

In a recent exchange in social media, it was clear the notion of risk and the sources of risk, the consequences or risks and managing in the presence of risk was in very unclear, when it was conjectured , we can simply slice the work into small bits and REDUCE risk. . This is good, but it doesn't reduce risk.

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Agile vs Waterfall: Embracing the Hybrid Project Revolution

NimbleWork

Waterfall methodology refers to the sequential phase-gated project management workflow. Risks are identified and mitigated early during the project lifecycle, which allows teams to comply with stringent compliance regulations and organizational policies across the project lifecycle.

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10 GDPR Questions to Ask Before Starting a New Project

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The ICO defines personal data as: any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified in particular by reference to an identifier. Identification number, such as a customer reference number, as long as that can be tied back to a person. The risks to individuals (your data subjects).

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What is a technical project manager? (And why you should think about becoming one)

Planio

Technical project managers have a unique insight into how products get built that allows them to collaborate better with development teams, identify technical risks or inefficiencies, and make smarter decisions about how new features will work (or not) within your product roadmap. How software systems are architected.