Project Cycle Management or PCM is an approach that allows you to manage many different projects and improve the quality of your projects over time. PCM uses the idea of a continuous learning cycle and incorporates logical framework analysis to guarantee that the beneficiaries are involved in the project's design. However, PCM's built-in...

Ansible and Chef are configuration management (CM) tools that help sysadmins and DevOps professionals manage a large number of servers. They excel at repetitive task automation, simultaneous deployment of apps and packages to a group of servers or configuration and provisioning of new servers from scratch. [contact-form-7 id="76417"...

Zero Defects is referred to as a philosophy, a mentality, or a movement. It aims to minimize the number of defects in manufactured products and services as much as possible. Let us understand the concept of Zero Defects. What does the concept of zero defect mean? Zero Defects is a term coined by Mr. Philip Crosby in his book “Absolutes of...

You might have seen the term come up a lot, especially when talking about a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), and wondered to yourself what is a work package anyway? Well, a work package is a collection of similar tasks which are bundled together to create a kind of mini-project within a project. What defines a work package is the inter-relatedness...

If you’ve ever applied for a project management position or looked into getting a project management certification, you’ve likely come across a requirement for “project management experience.” For example, consider that for a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, PMI wants you to demonstrate at least 4,500 hours of...

SET GOALS AND MAKE PLANS [contact-form-7 id="76417" title="Subscriber Demo Form"] Setting a goal and making plans before starting a new journey is important. “I will become a Software Engineer!” is a good one. But what kind of Software Engineer would you want to be? A Software Engineer who wants to work with a big or a start-up...

Scrum is a powerful framework for implementing agile processes in software development and other projects. This highly adopted framework utilizes short iterations of work, called sprints, and daily meetings, called scrums, to tackle discrete portions of a project in succession until the project is complete. There are three key roles within Scrum:...

As the EC-Council states on its website, “to beat a hacker, you need to think like one!” Accordingly, the Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) exam tests candidates’ knowledge on hacking techniques. These include pen testing methodologies, network security techniques, current security threats and countermeasures. To ensure exam success, it is...

Python has been a charmer for data scientists for a while now. The more I interact with resources, literature, courses, training, and people in Data Science, proficient knowledge of Python emerges as a good asset to have. Having said that, when I started flourishing my Python skills, I had a list of Python libraries I had to know about. A few...

Cyber security deals with protecting anything connected across the network. This includes: Hardware like desktops, laptops, servers and mobilesSoftware like communication and work applicationsData in transit and at rest. Cyber security is the practice of securing networks, systems and any other digital infrastructure from malicious attacks....