What’s in a training and development specialist job description? The general answer to that question should be fairly obvious from the title of the position. As a training and development specialist, you would be helping to develop solutions to institutional problems and inefficiencies by focusing on the proper training of personnel. The more particular answer … Read More
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Building on ITIL Training for Cyber Security Tasks
On Wednesday, the blog for the internet registry body APNIC published an article relevant to ITIL training and to online information technology training more generally. It is part of an ongoing series of articles on ITIL training and implementation, and it dealt specifically with the topic of cyber security and how this is an apparent … Read More
More Value in Agile Training than Programming Languages?
When looking for a career as a software developer, what should you learn first? Agile training or Python programming? Computer science or microeconomics? The answers may not be as straightforward as you think. On Tuesday, Tech Republic published an article based on an interview with the noted software development expert and Stack Overflow co-founder Joel … Read More
The Value of Real-World Agile Training
Last week, an article appeared at CIO which asked a very basic question, and one that certainly should be of interest to a major portion of the visitors to this blog: Is agile training or the coursework for a similar certification worth the price tag and the opportunity cost that goes into acquiring them? Sharon … Read More
Conferences May Open the Way to Competitions Over IT Skills
In the past, we have recommended that you remain mindful of conferences and events that you can attend to help understand the IT job market, to network with other IT professionals, and determine what sorts of online information technology training are most important to your prospective career path. We also promised that we would make … Read More
Scrum Methodology: Still Relevant, Increasingly Versatile
At the start of September, CIO contributor Sharon Florentine conducted an interview with Jeff Sutherland, one of the co-inventors of scrum development methodology. You can read it here. But to reduce Sutherland’s comments to their Cliff’s Notes, we’d say that for anyone who’s considering certified scrum master or certified scrum product owner training, the major … Read More
Who Benefits from Scrum Training?
At first glance, it might be obvious what sort of person needs to seek out certified scrum master training. You might not immediately think that it’s worthwhile for any member of a scrum team, much less for people who don’t work within the framework of scrum methodology. There’s a specific job title right in the … Read More
Agile Scrum Methodology vs. Waterfall Methodology
“Scrum is a simple yet incredibly powerful set of principles and practices that help teams deliver products in short cycles, enabling fast feedback, continual improvement, and rapid adaptation to change. As the leading Agile development framework, Scrum has predominantly been used for software development, but it is also proving to be effective in efforts far … Read More
Different SDLC in Project Management Agile vs Waterfall
SDLC is Software Development Life Cycle. It is the process by which Information Systems or Software are developed and designed. Like every other process, SDLCs have various methods to complete the steps. One of the oldest ways to go about is the Waterfall method. The first known usage of Waterfall was in 1956 by Herbert … Read More