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10 Data Protection Questions to Ask Before Starting a New Project

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Then you can appropriately plan the controls and actions required to move the project forward. If the company you want to transfer to does not have adequate data controls in place, you could be better off looking for an alternative solution that doesn’t require transferring data overseas. A more realistic example is buying insurance.

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The Scrum Master Job (1): 4 Steps to Identify Suitable Employers or Clients

Scrum.org

With its functional silos and command and control management style, transforming into a learning organization takes time because the organizational debt, acquired over decades, results in a latency that justifies the ship/tanker metaphor in this case. Source 4: Is the Organization Sponsoring or Organizing Meetups, Barcamps, or Conferences?

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

Scrum.org

It doesn’t matter whether you look at the available research on the progress of DX (⁶), case studies, the job market, the number of certification holders, public training or conferences; the evidence tells the same story. In other words, for most people in Japan, software development was and remained an exercise in box checking.

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Mastering Scrum with Feminine Power

Scrum.org

Digitization and software development are firmly in the hands of men. As a software engineer, I am happy that more and more women are finding their way into this future industry. I am glad we have an online conference on 23 November 2020 on "Women in Agile". Control (yang) instead of trust (yin).

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

Scrum.org

This requires highly controlled experiments where only the level of agility is manipulated in a team. SCRUM and productivity in software projects: a systematic literature review. In 14th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) (pp. But how can one feasibly do that?

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9 Best Practices for Recruiting Developers With Skills Tests

Teamweek

What’s the problem with recruiting software developers? The demand for software developers far outweighs the available supply, making it a real challenge to find the right candidates. To make matters worse, top-notch software engineers know their worth and often expect handsome salaries.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ‒ Steve McConnell. Software quality measurement,” Magne Jørgensen, Advances in Engineering Software 30 (1999) 907–912.