Christophe Blefari
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
No. This question generated a lot of content last week, and a lot of words were written. I wanted to keep my answer short so as not to burden you with a few thousand more words to read. Modern data stack has been coined by US companies and VCs—mainly Fivetran / dbt Labs—as a word to quickly emphasis a way to build data stack in the cloud related to ELT.
KDnuggets
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
As you design your career in data, you’ve got to avoid getting stuck in your comfort zone or allowing your manager or current situation to determine your path.
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Knowledge Hut
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Why Stakeholder Management? One of the most critical aspects of project management is doing what’s necessary to develop and control relationships with all individuals that the project impacts. In this article, you will learn techniques for identifying stakeholders, analyzing their influence on the project, and developing strategies to communicate, set boundaries, and manage competing expectations.
KDnuggets
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Clickbait headlines like "AI's Hottest Job" have promised a career that anyone who knows how to chat with AI could pay a six-figure salary with no computer background. But is this reality, or just another internet pipe dream? Let's ditch the sensationalism and delve into the actual job market data to find out.
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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?
Knowledge Hut
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
What is Agile Testing? As the name implies, agile course projects are executed very quickly and with flexibility. Agile methods involve tasks executed in short iterations or sprints. Agile Testing is also iterative and takes place after each sprint, rather than towards the end of the project. Testing courses iteratively helps to validate the client requirements and adapt to changing conditions in a better manner.
KDnuggets
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
So where did all the memory go? To figure out, learn how to profile your Python code for memory usage using the memory-profiler package.
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Scott Logic
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
In this episode, Oliver Cronk is joined by experts including Jeremy Axe, Group CTO at DS Smith, and consultants Darren Smith and Katie Davis from Scott Logic. Together, they unpack topics like the energy usage and carbon emissions of IT infrastructure, the challenges in accurately measuring sustainability, and whether claims of ‘green tech’ are substantiated or just hype.
Edureka
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
In the contemporary competitive corporate environment, as a project manager, opting for certifications such as PRINCE2 can be advantageous in distinguishing oneself. This choice offers benefits including increased salary potential, improved project outcomes, enhanced project management proficiency, and overall career advancement opportunities. PRINCE2 ( Projects IN Controlled Environments ) is a structured project management method and practitioner certification program that emphasizes dividing
Knowledge Hut
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
What is KANBAN? Kanban is a new technique for managing a software development process in a highly efficient way. Kanban underpins Toyota’s “just-in-time” (JIT) production system. Although producing software is a creative activity and therefore different from mass-producing cars, the underlying mechanism for managing the production line can still be applied.
Cloudyard
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Read Time: 1 Minute, 42 Second In this blog post, we’ll delve into a practical example that showcases the prowess of Snowpark by processing customer invoice data from a CSV file and handling credit card details from a JSON source. For instance, Consider a scenario where an organization needs to streamline the processing of customer invoice data and credit card details.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Knowledge Hut
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
The publication of the PMBOK® Guide 5th Edition significantly increases the profile and processes for stakeholder management. The following are the Stakeholder Management processes listed out in the fifth edition of the PMBOK.To kick-start your career in project management, learn PMP and accelerate your professional journey. We have given a short description of each process and a comparison with the listing in the previous PMBOK edition.
Zalando Engineering
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
TL;DR : Database per service pattern in the microservices world brings an overhead on operating database instances, observing its health status and anomalies. Standardisation on methodology and tooling is a key factor for the success at the scale. We have incorporated learning from past incidents, anomalies and empirical observations into a methodology of observing the health status using 12 golden signals.
Knowledge Hut
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
So. you want to get your PMI-ACP® certification and are wondering what the PMI-ACP® Certification course requirements and processes are! You are in the right place and this post will hopefully be beneficial in guiding you with regard to all the optional and mandatory steps required to apply for the certification. It’s obvious, whenever someone start a process (Certification Education) or anything new, the first question that comes to mind is, where should I start , and what are t
Striim
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Organizations struggle with managing vast amounts of complex data. Traditional methods often fall short, leading to data silos and security vulnerabilities. Innovations like Data Mesh and Data Fabric have emerged as solutions, offering new ways to manage data effectively and derive actionable insights. Central to unlocking the potential of these frameworks is Striim, a platform that facilitates real-time data integration, analytics, and event processing, providing businesses can fully leverage t
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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.
Knowledge Hut
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
We need to understand a system first with respect to the function points. Consider an application model as below for measuring the function points. A PMP course and certification will help your career in project management reach higher levels. Now to calculate the function points we need to follow the following steps: Measure the application boundary The application boundary defines what is external to the application.
Towards Data Science
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Image from Unsplash Building a Semantic Book Search: Scale an Embedding Pipeline with Apache Spark and AWS EMR Serverless Using OpenAI’s Clip model to support natural language search on a collection of 70k book covers In a previous post I did a little PoC to see if I could use OpenAI’s Clip model to build a semantic book search. It worked surprisingly well, in my opinion, but I couldn’t help wondering if it would be better with more data.
Knowledge Hut
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
What is the Health of your Project? (Earned Value Management) Takeaway: I have seen a number of status reports in my earlier company, which is being prepared by various PM(s). And mostly it is % of completion of each feature. However, does it really convey the status? I am sure, it does not. Here, we will have a simple question to know the status of the project.
Monte Carlo
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Hype is a funny thing. Sometimes you find yourself in a Godfather Part 2 situation where the hype is totally justified. You hear about it. You try it. Life is changed. Hooray! Other times, you find yourself in more of an Avatar: the Way of Water situation…where everyone around you is muttering things like “stunningly immersive,” and you’re on the sidelines wondering how much time you can spend watching blue aliens be bad at swimming.
Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst
We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.
Knowledge Hut
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
I have been asked many times on the white paper that appeared for the Synergy between MS Project Course and PMBOK Guide, in 2009. Some are unable to find it and have requested for an access. This is the ONLY paper of its kind that appeared ever in a typically theoretical driven publications and stands out as it emphasizes on the practicality of PMBOK using the MS Project tool.
Knowledge Hut
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
It pays to be a member of PMI and feels good when you get a copy earlier than others! The copy has been made available last month to all PMI members. Thank you PMI. Copy for public distribution is expected be available in this month. In this post, we will see how PMBOK guide, one of the most referred one worldwide in management practices, talk of Agile.
Knowledge Hut
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
I posted an article at PM Hut on how cheap actually PMP certification and its maintenance can be. Thanks to PMHut for publishing it. The inspiration for this article came from HERE, a post by Pam Stanton, of Project Whisper. Cost, of course, is not the entire point of her article, but do form a major argument. With all due respect to Pam, I would like to politely point that training for PMP certification and maintenance is not at all expensive.
Knowledge Hut
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
I come across this question a number of times. In year 2001, 17 minds come up together with these 4 core values. Individuals and Interactions Over Process and Tools Working Software Over Comprehensive Documentation Customer Collaboration Over Contract Negotiation Responding to Change Over Following A Plan It must be noted that they did not out rightly reject the values for the items in the right, but they gave more emphasis and value to the items on left.
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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
Knowledge Hut
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
All projects begin as a concept. A project concept, to create a new product or service, typically includes a broad vision of what the end result of the project will be. The temporary project results in the unique product or service through progressive elaboration. Progressive elaboration is the incremental design and refinement of the initial concept toward the project plan.
Knowledge Hut
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Project integration management is the heart of project management course and is made up of the day-to-day processes the project manager relies on to ensure that all of the parts of the project work together. Put simply, project integration management is the way the gears of the project work together. Within any project there are many moving parts: time management, cost management, schedule conflicts, human resource issues, iterative planning, and much, much more.
Knowledge Hut
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Transitioning from a waterfall process to an Agile framework like Scrum can be a daunting task. However, you can make the effort a whole lot easier if you have a good idea of what needs to change – beyond getting rid of waterfall – if you were to take the plunge for your organization. I have found that there are five broad success factors that need to be addressed in order to successfully transition to Agile.
Knowledge Hut
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Project Management Professional or PMP is a certificate awarded to project management professionals by PMI – Project Management Institute. PMP provides and demonstrates the actual experience, education, skill, and competency required to lead and handle the projects. Project Management Professionals or PMP are the imperatives in all organizations. The demand for PMP is increasing with respect to skills and requirements in industries across the globe.
Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science
Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.
Knowledge Hut
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
First of all congrats to those all aspiring to be a PMP… for it is a great certification and also a greater responsibility when you handle projects. Here are the guidelines. 1. Register on the PMI.ORG site for PMI membership by paying around 130 2. Being a PMI member will get you access to PMBOK handy guide which is very helpful for the PMP training courses. 3.
Knowledge Hut
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Once one obtains their PMP, also known as Project Management Professional status, the question is how do I let others know I now have this status? The 4 main places are: 1. Your business card. Once you obtain your PMP status order up some new business cards 2. The signature line in your email address. I would also recommend including an embedded hyperlink to your LinkedIn page. 3.
Knowledge Hut
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
1. Time: The 3 hours to answer 120 questions were sufficient. I finished answering all questions in 2 hours. There were 4-5 questions which were not very clear and another 10-12 questions I marked for “review” later. I used my extra time to review those Marked questions to guess best answer PMI may be expecting. 2. AgileExams.com is very useful site in preparing for PMI ACP certification , The “Study Mode” taught me how to eliminate the wrong answers after reviewing the l
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