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10 Data Protection Questions to Ask Before Starting a New Project

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The ICO defines personal data as: information about a particular living individual. There are lots of questions to answer, and at the end you get an idea of the scope and scale of the risk. What’s the data protection risk? What is personal data? You need to let people know what logic is used to process their data.

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Agile vs Waterfall: What’s the Difference?

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The waterfall model is used in a variety of industries, from construction to marketing, but we’ll talk about it in software development terms as we define the different phases. Design : There are two parts to this phase, including logical design and physical design, all resulting in the software or product architecture.

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

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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 accounting, procurement, project management, risk management , compliance and more.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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Agile vs Waterfall: Embracing the Hybrid Project Revolution

NimbleWork

The sequential process provides a linear and well-defined approach to realizing known task objectives. 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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Product-Market Fit: What Is It & Why Is It Important?

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You can thank Marc Andreessen , the American entrepreneur, investor and software engineer, for the hyphenated phrase. The idea of a product-market fit is straightforward and even simple to define, but hard to achieve. When you start to define these customers and their attributes, it’s called persona archetypes.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.