December, 2020

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How To Write Good User Stories – An Aggregate of User Story Articles

BA Squared

Hint: Start with Pathway 9 to become an expert on Writing Good User Stories. Struggling project? Maybe it’s your user stories! Are you on a sinking ship? If your agile project is struggling to stay above water, it’s possible you have holes in your user stories! Do a quick user story inspection. Do you see any of these warning signs? 1. Inside Out User Stories : Do your user stories focus inside out (technology, then user) or outside in (user then technology)?

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Data Science vs. Big Data vs. Data Analytics | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

Data is everywhere and part of our daily lives in more ways than most of us realize in our daily lives. The amount of digital data that exists—that we create—is growing exponentially. According to estimates, in 2021, there will be 74 zetabytes of generated data. That’s expected to double by 2024. Hence, the dire need for professionals who und. Read More.

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How to Start Developing Software Product Using Scrum

Agilemania

Scrum is a framework for solving a complex adaptive problem, and developing software products considered complex work. Agile product development usually has high-level uncertainty in the requirement, and many a time, end users struggle to visualize what they are looking for in the product. Earlier, the product team used the prototyping method to capture the needs, but users often came… The post How to Start Developing Software Product Using Scrum appeared first on Agilemania.

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How Trucking Companies Use Telematics to Increase Trucking Safety

Smart Data Collective

As technology has advanced in the transportation industry, there’s a lot of data available that can enhance truckers’ safety all over the world. One recent example is the development of electronic logging devices (ELD) that monitor drivers’ Hours of Service (HOS) compliance. But there are other examples of how technology is improving truck driver safety – that’s what telematics is all about.

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The HR Leader’s Workforce Management Guide

In today’s fast-paced business world, effective workforce management (WFM) isn’t just an option—it’s a necessity.

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Power BI Governance, Good Practices: Setting up Azure Purview for Power BI

BI Insight

Microsoft newly announced a piece of very exciting news that Azure Purview now supports Power BI. This is massive news from a data governance point of view. Azure Purview is the next generation of Azure Data Catalog with more metadata discovery power and the ability to use sensitivity labels. After reading the news, I immediately … Continue reading Power BI Governance, Good Practices: Setting up Azure Purview for Power BI.

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Cybersecurity Isn’t Going Anywhere in 2021: Expert Predictions Part One

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Samantha Humphries. When reflecting on 2020, the effects of COVID-19 have touched nearly every corner of the globe, spanning continents, age groups and industries. The pandemic forced an almost overnight transformation in the way most businesses operate, particularly for those that did not already have cloud security tools in […].

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Why Data Science Matters And How It Powers Business Value | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

Without the expertise of professionals who turn cutting-edge technology into actionable insights, Big Data is nothing. Today, more and more organizations are opening up their doors to big data and unlocking its power—increasing the value of a data scientist who knows how to tease actionable insights out of gigabytes of data. It’s become a unive. Read More.

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ETL Antipattern: Performing Full Loads Instead of Incremental Loads

Tim Mitchell

In my last post in the ETL Antipatterns series, I wrote about the common antipattern of ingesting or loading more data than necessary. This brief post covers one specific case of loading more data than necessary by performing a full data load rather than using a smaller incremental load. ETL Antipattern: performing full loads instead of incremental loads Earlier this.

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How to Start, Nurture, and Grow a Business with Big Data

Smart Data Collective

At any given moment, a single person creates roughly 1.7 MB of data. We’re creating and putting more information out there than at any other point in human history. At this rate, by the end of the year, we can expect the Big Data market to reach 40 trillion gigabytes. That’s more data than most of us can even begin to imagine. Now, this data contains everything from the pictures you upload on social media to comments you post on Reddit and everything in between.

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Business Valuation Software: Free Guide to Valutico Platform

Explore our free guide to Valutico, the platform that revolutionizes automated report generation, offers access to 1 million M&A transactions, enables quick benchmarking, and streamlines the entire valuation process. With Valutico, you gain access to: 30-Minute Valuations: Rapidly producing accurate results. 3TB of Financial Data: The expansive data you need at your fingertips.

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Quick Tips: Registering SQL Server Profiler as an External Tool in Power BI Desktop

BI Insight

It has been a long time that I use SQL Server Profiler to diagnose my data models in the Power BI Desktop. I wrote a blog post in June 2016 about connecting to the underlying Power BI Desktop model from different tools, including SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), Excel and SQL Server Profiler. In this … Continue reading Quick Tips: Registering SQL Server Profiler as an External Tool in Power BI Desktop.

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What Use Case to Use?

BA Times

The Use Case is a standard tool in the BA toolkit, and like most tools they come in different shapes and sizes for different jobs.

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How Big Data Enables One-to-One Marketing

Dataversity

Click here to learn more about Gilad David Maayan. What Is One-to-One Marketing A one-to-one marketing strategy strives to create an experience that fits the individual customer. Rather than segment customers into groups, one-to-one marketing strategies treat each customer individually. This is similar to how sales representatives remember details about each customer, like date of […].

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Understanding The Difference Between Kubernetes Vs. Openshift | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

You may hear the word containerization when people talk about OpenShift and Kubernetes. But have you ever thought about what it means and how it's used? Commonly defined as the bundling of different applications as a way to more effectively develop, manage, and deploy them across various infrastructures. Containerization enables companies to b. Read More.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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OKRs in Product Management

Roman Pichler

OKRs in a Nutshell. OKRs are a method for setting and tracking goals. An objective describes what is to be achieved. The key results state how we accomplish the objective. Let’s say, for example, that the objective is to “increase engagement.” The key results might then be “simplify user journey A” and “enhance feature alpha.”. OKRs can be used to create cascading goals—goals that are systematically linked.

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New Open-Source Tools Use Machine Learning to Streamline Content Writing Process

Smart Data Collective

Machine learning has always been the great hope for automating a variety of tasks. However, writing was often seen as something that could never be automated. Significant progress has been made over the years, and tools like OpenAI are making it easier than ever before to streamline the essay writing process. For students looking to streamline their academic journeys, new open-source tools could offer essay help that was simply never available in the past.

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The Right Way to Think About Cost Savings with Agile

Leading Agile

Cost savings is a tricky subject with Agile. But it’s not because Agile can’t impact cost savings. It’s because Agile has very little impact on direct and immediate cost savings. The problem is, most people think the wrong way about how to save on cost with Agile. They usually say Scrum is how they realize cost savings—but they’re missing something. .

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The Wild Card Identity of Business Analysis

BA Times

What is your title? Is it the same as your professional identity?

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Maximize Productivity and Simplify IT Management with Conversational AI

ChatGPT has dominated boardroom conversations for months now. From drafting a stock trading program, to creating a SQL query to model data, there are practically no limits to the applications of the AI language model assistant. At ManageEngine, we have been working on our own AI-assistant, Zia. Zia is a fully-trained analytics assistant that can perform a range of functions such as creating and adding reports to dashboards, providing conversational support to data analysis, insight discovery, bu

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Th(re)e Things that Make Compliant Data Management Strategies

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Stefan Vucicevic. Data Management has been changing tremendously. Each year, the volume of data we need to manage goes rapidly up, as does the number of sources where this data is generated. Previously, companies used email as the main source of communication. Today, email has given way to social […]. The post Th(re)e Things that Make Compliant Data Management Strategies appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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What Ethical Hacking Skills Do Professionals Need? | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

The term “hacker” is broadly used to describe anyone with advanced computer technology skills who’s able to deceive organizations or bypass security and infiltrate networks without proper authorization. Some hackers use their skills to commit fraud, theft, or other nefarious acts, while some simply enjoy the challenge. Whatever the motivation. Read More.

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Article: Moving from Agile Teams towards an Agile Organization

InfoQ Articles

For organizational agility, we need to improve the system for teams and individuals to thrive, instead of expecting them to change, to fix the culture. This article explores some elements from a systemic point of view that are essential to create the right conditions for moving from agile teams towards an agile organization. By Fernando Guigou.

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Perplexing Impacts of AI on The Future Insurance Claims

Smart Data Collective

We previously talked about the benefits of data analytics in the insurance industry. One report found that big data vendors will generate over $2.4 billion from the insurance industry. However, major advances in AI have arguably affected the insurance industry even more. AI has moved forward in giant leaps over the last ten years, and new developments are being realized every day.

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Data-Backed Secrets for Minimizing Discounts & Maximizing ROI Post-Holiday

Use data to turn one-off holiday shoppers into repeat buyers and effortlessly drive more sales throughout the year. Our guide will give you an in-depth understanding of what triggers your customers to buy and breaks down campaign examples from leading B2C brands.

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Data Storytelling: The Ultimate Collection of Resources

Juice Analytics

Ocean_of_the_Stream_of_Stories. From Edward Tufte's Visual Explanations, a diagram based on Salman Rushdie‘s description of the Indian epid Kathasaritsagara or Ocean of the Streams of Story. The hot new concept in data visualization is "data storytelling"; some are calling it the next evolution of visualization (I'm one of them). However, we're early in the discussion and there are more questions than answers: Is data storytelling more than a catchy phrase?

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10 Best Business Analysis Books For Beginners

BA Times

Corporate analysis is a discipline in which business requirements are defined, and solutions are identified for business issues.

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Analyzing Gene Expression Data

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Jeany Prinz. Express Yourself! All individuals are unique, and so are our data needs. From simple CSV files to REST APIs to Google’s BigQuery or using customized shared components, Data Science Analytics Platforms offer many ways to access and analyze your data. Today, we will demonstrate how to access […]. The post Analyzing Gene Expression Data appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Top 15+ Power BI Interview Questions and Answers for 2021 | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

Microsoft Power BI is popular for a reason. This self-service business intelligence cloud service not only is highly rated—it’s free. PCMag reviewer Pam Baker says Power BI “does a fantastic job of combining power analytics with a user-friendly user interface (UI) and remarkable data visualization capabilities,” and adds, “It’s one of t. Read More.

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The Young BA

This article focuses on my experience starting as a customer service representative and working myself up to become a lead analyst in my organization. I did not start with many special skills or talents but I wanted to reflect on what did help me.