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What is a Scrum master? A key role for project success

CIO Business Intelligence

Scrum Alliance, established in 2001, is one of the more influential organizations in the agile community. Project management offices (PMOs) or product development departments within many business sectors hire Scrum masters to streamline their software development processes.

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What is ITIL? Your guide to the IT Infrastructure Library

CIO Business Intelligence

Nationwide Insurance achieved a 40% reduction in system outages and estimates a $4.3 million ROI over three years, and Capital One reduced its “business critical” incidents by 92% over two years.

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IT leaders adjust budget priorities as economic outlook shifts

CIO Business Intelligence

Megan Duty, VP of technology and project delivery, Puritan Life Insurance Company of America. Puritan Life Insurance Company of America Some of the projected growth is due to new users; not everything is yet on the cloud. Cloud-related services’ cost has risen by between 5% and 7% this year compared to last, IDC says.

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Data Science, Past & Future

Domino Data Lab

You know, companies like telecom and insurance, they don’t really need machine learning.” If you were out five years ago talking in industry about the importance of graphs and graph algorithms and representation of graph data, because most business data ultimately is some form of graph. I can point to the year 2001.

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Top 15 project management certifications

CIO Business Intelligence

11, 2001, terrorist attacks to address issues of cyberterrorism and the information security of nations at large. Certified Project Management (CPM). The EC-Council was formed after the Sept. Price: $999 for the single video course package; $2,999 for the unlimited video courses; or $3,499 for the full live-course bundle.