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What is an IT consultant? Roles, types, salaries, and how to become one

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An IT consultant is a technology professional who advises and supports business clients in designing, developing, and executing technology projects in service of business goals. But ultimately, success in IT is about having the skills and the ability to perform the work, not necessarily having a particular formal education in IT, she says.

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What it takes to win your first CIO role

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Nafde was tapped at the onset to lead the technical integration of the two entities — an assignment he says served as a proof point that he was more than capable of executing larger responsibilities. Nafde points to a time when he was tasked with introducing the agile operating model to software engineering.

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Making sense of Klarna

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In contrast to America, he points out how Sweden is among the most successful societies in the world from a social mobility perspective — referencing its free education and free health care, which sets up as many people as possible for success. “We didn’t have a lot of money,” he tells me.

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Rethinking the IT talent pipeline

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Amanda Merola had zero technical background when she came to The Hartford in 2015, despite a natural interest in computers and a proclivity for problem-solving. You used to be able to buy people or rely on the education system to pull people through so there was a ready supply of trained technical people.

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Examining low-code/no-code popularity across Africa and its range of disruption for CIOs

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Coding has been an educational trend in Africa for many years, and schools and movements have been created in response to a pressing need and necessity in the digital age. Actors and leaders of incubators and educational movements are doing what they can for the sake of those in both technological and non-technological sectors.

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SAFe certification: launch your Scaled Agile Framework career

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SAFe training and certification are available online or through in-person training through these and other education providers: Advised Skills: Advised Skills is a consultancy and training services provider focused on Lean-agile transformation, agile strategy audit and implementation, and agile program/portfolio management.

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19 organizations advancing women in tech

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Systers is still functioning today and is now the “largest email community of women in technical computing” with more than 8,500 members worldwide. Kimberly Bryant founded Black Girls Code in part because she felt culturally isolated in her electrical engineering and computer programming courses in college. Black Girls Code.