The Hidden Benefits of Agile Design

Agile design is particularly well-suited for projects with the following characteristics: The Agile design approach has tremendous benefits when dealing with moving targets, as it allows software and solution architectures to adapt quickly, at acceptable costs, and without compromising the integrity of the whole design. Complex and rapidly changing requirements Agile design is well-suited for … Read more

Understanding product delivery

Product delivery involves ensuring that a product or service is developed in a timely and cost-effective way, meeting the user needs. Skill level Description Awareness You can:manage your contribution to tasks to fit in with the work of your wider team Working You can:show an awareness of the differences between delivery methods, such as Agile … Read more

Agile and Lean practices

Agile delivery involves encouraging teams to build incrementally, test and iterate their work based on regular feedback and other useful data. Skill level Description Awareness This skill level is currently not defined. Working You can:demonstrate experience in applying Agile principles in practiceprovide a clear, open and transparent framework in which teams can delivershow an awareness … Read more

Project management

Project management involves understanding the life cycle of a project to achieve its objectives within the agreed parameters. Skill level Description Awareness You can:show an awareness of project management techniques, and an appreciation of how they are applied in the environment Working You can:apply your knowledge and experience of project management methodologies, including tools and … Read more

Organisations and Leaders in the Knowledge Society

Organizations and leaders must facilitate the acquisition and application of each of these skills. This means policies, procedures, and organizational structures that enable their employees to use these skills. It also means leaders and managers that encourage and facilitate their use. Thinking Skills Communication Teamwork and Leadership Lifelong Learning and Self-Direction Technology Use Ethics and … Read more

Transforming to an automated Database DevOps process

A Real-world Implementation of Database DevOps: People, Processes, Tools | Redgate (red-gate.com) For this implementation we will look at a team of professionals developing bespoke .NET solutions for their customers. Broadly, their ‘old’, manual database development, test and release processes looked like this. It used a shared development and test databases, a couple of ‘standalone’ … Read more

Aviation Maintenance Dirty Dozen

Lack of Communication: lack of clear, direct statements and good, active listening skills. Complacency: self-satisfaction accompanied by a loss of awareness of the dangers. Lack of Knowledge: lack of experience or training for the task at hand. Distraction: loss of focus, mental/emotional confusion or disturbance, draw one’s attention away. Lack of Teamwork: lack of working together to achieve a common … Read more

Skills needed to be a data scientist

Data science is a broad and fast-moving field spanning maths, statistics, software engineering and communications. Data scientists will often work as part of a multidisciplinary team, using data and analytics to inform and achieve organisational goals. In this role, you will: be inquisitive explore and visualise data make recommendations to address complex problems and to … Read more