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Enhanced due diligence in banking 

Productivity Land

Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), also known as Politically Exposed Person (PEP) screening, is a process that banks and other financial institutions must use to identify the risk associated with doing business with foreign individuals. More businesses and governments are requiring enhanced due diligence.

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Book review: How to Manage in a Flat World

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If the human connections are faltering, we need to take it just as seriously – indeed, more so; after all, technology is designed and run by people, too. This article first appeared on this website in 2009, so it’s an old book but still a useful one in many respects. The electronic and human Internets demand equal attention.

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Making Things Happen [Book Review]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Normally I take lots of notes when I’m reading books for review. Berkun’s Microsoft background means a lot of the book is aimed towards software development projects, but that’s no bad thing – if you don’t work on software projects just ignore then 10% that is specific to that, like how to plan a code review. It’s all brilliant.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

The term scrum was introduced in a “Harvard Business Review” article from 1986 by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka. Schwaber left the Scrum Alliance in 2009 to start a parallel accreditation organization called Scrum.org. It does this by optimizing separate technologies, assets and verticals. Kanban Methodology.

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AI Hype vs. Reality: Project Management Reimagined

The IIL Blog

” – Stuart Russell, AI expert (2019) “…a large portion of the population becomes unemployable due to AI automation, leading to significant social and economic unrest. There will also be a shift in the type of technical skills needed. AI and digital technologies enable more flexible work environments.

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PRINCE2: The Project Management Method Explained

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Because PRINCE2® is a broad-brush approach, it doesn’t cover technical processes or specific techniques, but it will fit alongside them. PRINCE2® was released in 1996 and had major updates in 2009 and 2017. You review progress, monitor that against the baseline you set and correct any deviations. It was renamed PRINCE.

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Test First approach sounds simply enough, right?

Scrum.org

This can be the first confusion in its understanding and actual meaning today, for either technical or non-technical folk. Then we have all these practices you hear about residing under this Test First banner - TDD, BDD, and ATDD. Test Driven Development (TDD). But let us leave that for another day. Add a test.