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Predictive Analytics Drives Criminal Justice Reform with Recidivism Forecasting

Smart Data Collective

To receive prize money, (114 total prizes available, up to 15 per contestant/team) winning applicants must provide a comprehensive document detailing the lessons learned about what variables did and did not matter to their final forecasting model and, when applicable, what type of models outperformed other models.

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Dealing with the Downside of AI for Remote Workers: Increased Boredom

Smart Data Collective

As long as you keep one ear on the action, there’s no reason you can’t delete some old documents at the same time. A 2015 study consisting mostly of university students showed chewing gum could improve cognition and even mood throughout the day. You may feel trapped in a pointless meeting and unable to focus completely on your work.

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What Does SPCT Mean and How Do I Become An SPCT?

Agilemania

He encountered SAFe ® in mid-2015 when he was discussing generic topics during a discussion with a mentor about a generic topic that led to Agility at scale and his experiments with it. And submit your documentation. Let’s Take a Look at Ashwinee’s Journey to Success. Connected minds win!

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Project Managers Fail to Help Software Projects (Standish Group Chaos 2020)

Vitality Chicago

Working Software OVER Comprehensive Documentation. They love their comprehensive documentation. The Standish Group in 2015 did an extensive study of the Enterprise Project and Portfolio Management (EPPM) tool Clarity. Customer Collaboration OVER Contract Negotiation. Responding to Change OVER Following a Plan.

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How Fuji Xerox Fixed Its Forecasting Problem

Domo

In 2015, Australia’s leading manufacturer of printers, scanners, and fax machines implemented Domo. Now, everyone within the document processing company’s sales department has more than 90 days of visibility. “We’d focus on delivering a month, fall over the line, and then worry about the next month,” he said. “It What changed?

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How to User Story

Vitality Chicago

And perhaps they were pining away for the days of old when we had those wonderful business requirements document where everything was spelled out in perfect detail. It is not just that people think that they can use user stories as a substitute for traditional requirements documents. Except that they didn’t!

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What Does It Take to Become a Good Project Manager?

Managed Agile

Some project managers are used to following well-defined project management processes even to the extent of using prescribed checklists of what to do in a given situation and perhaps also using fill-in-the-blanks document templates to complete. ” (Cobb, Charles, The Project Managers Guide to Mastering Agile , Wiley 2015).