Does this situation sound familiar? You’re sitting in a meeting, and you and your colleagues are energetically discussing how to handle an important issue or challenge. Ideas and suggestions are bouncing around so fast that the designated note-taker can barely keep up.
Food Co., a pseudonym for a large food processing plant in the Northeast, had been operating successfully for several years when the plant manager realized he had a problem he couldn’t solve alone. The employees did their jobs well, but they didn’t seem to care much about taking care of each other.
As IT jobs grow increasingly complex, there’s more ambiguity surrounding how job titles are defined by any given company and how employers can compensate candidates in the same role with varying skillsets. Pay premiums help employers track the value of specific skills, so they know how competitive the market is for candidates with those skills and how much to offer on top of the base salary.
In June 2021, we asked the recipients of our Data & AI Newsletter to respond to a survey about compensation. The results gave us insight into what our subscribers are paid, where they’re located, what industries they work for, what their concerns are, and what sorts of career development opportunities they’re pursuing.
Thanks to DevOps, high-performing IT companies are more reliable and agile than ever before. As these businesses cater to the ever-expanding needs of their customers, they trust DevOps to deliver essential technology solutions—from around-the-clock version control and continuous deployment and integration to proactive monitoring of production environments.
“There’s no crying in baseball!” shouts a red-faced Tom Hanks at a tearful outfielder in one of the most memorable scenes from the 1992 movie A League of Their Own . It’s a moment that often plays out in the office, where employees are expected to button up their emotions and tamp down their feelings to maintain professional poise
What is SAFe certification? Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certifications are becoming valuable in larger organizations that are looking for efficient project delivery, ensuring reduced time-to-market, and developing ways to provide better stakeholder value.
Over the past few years Microsoft has dramatically changed its approach to certification, moving away from qualifications connected to specific products to instead align them with common job roles. The idea is to provide experience-based learning delivered and assessed in small chunks, rather than forcing IT pros to cram for a long, theoretical exam every few years. “We rebooted certifications around the modern jobs and roles that people have, as developers, as IT pros,” Jeff Sandquist, corporate vice president of developer relations at Microsoft, told CIO.com. “We worked with a set of industry partners and with various companies and enterprises [to ask]: What are the job tasks you need; what is that skill completion?
CSM certification Agile practices are being rapidly adopted in project and product management across many industries, and the Scrum master is an important leadership role in agile development. The Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) certification, available through the Scrum Alliance, is an entry-level certification aimed at providing professionals with an awareness of the methodologies and values of Scrum, including team performance, accountability, and iterative progress.
When it comes to skills, the secret to future-proofing any IT career is diversification. In a recent Deloitte survey , a majority of CIOs said that one-third of their staff’s current skill sets will not be relevant in the next three years.
Organizations are embracing technology to optimize individual and team productivity, collaboration, and the employee experience at large. The abrupt, COVID-19-driven shift to remote work as the default for much of the labor force has altered work as we know it—and with the work-from-home cat out of the bag, it could prove challenging to coax these professionals back to prepandemic levels of in-office work.
Fifteen months after the US and Europe went into lockdown for the first time, many office-based employees have still not returned to their pre-pandemic workplaces. During that time, videoconferencing apps have continued to see an unprecedented — and unsurprising — level of popularity.
This structure defines goals, ensures that agility’s principles stick, and keeps the focus on value. Three design decisions are the key.
New technology solutions are enabling organizations that want to take a closer look at how they address workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion opportunities and challenges. Using these tools may also create new considerations requiring ethical decision-making and actions. Even before social justice protests drew the world’s attention in the summer of 2020, business leaders understood the case for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
