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Difference Between Agile Methodology and Scrum Methodology [Full Comparison]

The corporate world is a fast-paced one where project requirements, customer demands, and support functions…

by upGrad Oct 22, 2019

upGrad Reviews – What Our Students Say

Reviews are the new decision facilitator in Digital Times. Let it be Mobile or Automobile,…

by upGrad Oct 16, 2019

Top Skills You Need to Develop Before Becoming Manager

In today’s VUCA (Volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world, a manager is tasked with the…

by upGrad Oct 15, 2019

What does a DevOps developer do? Job Role, Skills & Salary Details

Of late, the concept of DevOps has taken the IT industry by storm, and for…

by upGrad Oct 14, 2019

5 Prominent Reasons To Take Executive MBA in Business Analytics

The world we live in is a fast-paced one - things are changing right in…

by upGrad Oct 9, 2019

How MBA Helps in Banking Sector?

The MBA degree is one of the most desirable and informative degrees out there. Students…

by upGrad Oct 7, 2019

How to Create Digital Marketing Strategy for Startups in 2019?

Over the past few years, the concept of Digital Marketing has taken the industry by…

by upGrad Oct 7, 2019

How To Generate Business Sales with Facebook Ads? 9 Easy Ways To Try

If you are looking for the short version: There are nearly 2 billion active users…

by upGrad Oct 7, 2019

Full Stack Developer Salary in India: For Freshers & Experienced

Highly controversial because of the title, a full stack developer is an engineer who can…

by upGrad Oct 7, 2019

12 Most Popular Full Stack Developer Interview Questions and Answers

Full Stack Developers are professional programmers who are responsible for coding both the front and…

by upGrad Oct 7, 2019

Hadoop vs MongoDB: Which is More Secure for Big Data?

By 2020, the global data generated will stand at 44 Zettabytes. As the amount of…

by upGrad Sep 30, 2019

3 Practical Advantages of Online Education: Benefits of Taking Online Courses

Online education is all the rage right now. Every person has or is currently taking…

by upGrad Sep 30, 2019

20 Common R Interview Questions & Answers for 2019

Over the past few years, R programming language has gained significant traction in the Data…

by upGrad Sep 30, 2019

Top 7 Trends in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning in 2019

Currently, machine learning and artificial intelligence are popular and pioneering domains in computer science. Future…

by upGrad Sep 25, 2019

5 Must-Have Job Skills You Need to Land on Your First Job

Educational qualifications aren’t enough to land one a job. These days, companies look for a…

by upGrad Sep 23, 2019

4 Inspiring Ways You Can Improve Your Employee Development Methods

Employee talent is an investment. You bet when you hire a person and then to…

by upGrad Sep 23, 2019

3 Essential Ways to Prepare Yourself for the Jobs of the Future

Ever since technology dawned and started progressing, the job market has been changing and progressing…

by upGrad Sep 23, 2019

Why Learn R? Top 8 Reasons To Learn R in 2019

Anyone who is planning to learn a programming language must have heard (more times than…

by upGrad Sep 19, 2019

Top 3 Big Data Use Cases in Retail Industry

Something a lot of people don't know, and the ones who do know still have…

by upGrad Sep 18, 2019

How To Start a Career in Digital Marketing?

The arrival of the Internet was the next big leap in the evolution of technology,…

by upGrad Sep 17, 2019

Top 5 Big Data Applications in Banking & Insurance

By nature, the banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) sector have always been data-driven. However,…

by upGrad Sep 11, 2019

upGrad inducted in the list of top 25 startups in India to work for!

Transforming online learning experience one student at a time since 2015, upGrad got inducted in…

by upGrad Sep 9, 2019

Tensorflow vs Pytorch – Comparison, Features & Applications

Developing Machine Learning and Deep Learning architectures is a tricky business. However, over the years,…

by upGrad Sep 6, 2019

Top 5 Big Data Use Cases in Healthcare

Thanks to improved healthcare services, today, the average human lifespan has increased to a great…

by upGrad Sep 5, 2019

Apache Spark vs Hadoop Mapreduce – What you need to Know

Big Data is like the omnipresent Big Brother in the modern world. The ever-increasing use…

by upGrad Sep 4, 2019

Tableau Interview Questions & Answers – [Updated 2019]

Data visualization is a hot and upcoming career in the computer science field. A part…

by upGrad Sep 4, 2019

Python Interview Questions & Answers You Must Know – Frequently Asked in 2019

Undisputed one of the most popular programming languages these days, Python is a hot choice…

by upGrad Aug 29, 2019

Future Scope of Hadoop Technology

Most computer science engineers upon first hearing the word Hadoop raise their eyebrows and wonder…

by upGrad Aug 29, 2019

Python Projects for Beginners – List of 7

Learning a new language - whether it is for speaking to humans or to computers…

by upGrad Aug 29, 2019

Basic Hive Interview Questions & Answers 2019

Big Data interviews may be conducted on general lines (wherein you must have a general…

by upGrad Aug 22, 2019

Devops Interview Questions & Answers 2019 – Most Frequently Asked

Compared to other computer science fields, DevOps is not very popular. But that is because…

by upGrad Aug 22, 2019

Scope of Big Data In India : The Future is Bright

“In God we trust, all others must bring data” The famous quote, attributed to W.…

by upGrad Aug 17, 2019

Key to Build a High Performing Team – SMBs

Venture Capitalists are famously hard-nosed. They see hundreds of businesses each year, and their job…

by upGrad Aug 14, 2019

4 Popular Big Data Jobs – Roles & Responsibilities

Big data has been declared the oil of today; and who does not want to…

by upGrad Jul 29, 2019

17 Advanced Excel Formulas – A Must Know For All Professionals

If you find yourself often flexing your hands and wasting hours to do things manually…

by upGrad Jul 28, 2019

Machine Learning Salaries – ML Engineer Salary in India 2019

In a report titled “The Best Jobs in the US: 2019”, Indeed maintains that the…

by upGrad Jul 25, 2019

Big Data Salaries Guide 2019 – Who Earns How Much

Did you know that at present, India is one among the top 10 big data…

by upGrad Jul 25, 2019

Be A Big Data Analyst – Skills, Salary & Job Description

In an era dominated by Big Data, one cannot imagine that the skill set and…

by upGrad Jul 10, 2019

5 Trending Professional Courses after Graduation – Job Oriented

India hosts over 700 universities and more than 35,000 affiliated colleges enrolling more than 20…

by upGrad Jul 1, 2019

Jugaad 3.0 : Hacking the Corporation to Make it Fast, Fluid and Frugal

Dr. Simone Ahuja – consultant, author, speaker and entrepreneur, is the CEO of Blood Orange…

by upGrad Apr 17, 2019

5 Resourceful Things to Learn from Gautam Adani

India may widely be acknowledged as one of the fastest-growing major economies in the world,…

by upGrad Mar 20, 2019

Produce Effective Results – Get Better at Getting Better

This is an excerpt from the book ‘Get Better at Getting Better’ written by Chandramouli…

by upGrad Feb 5, 2019

5 Tips for Budding Leaders on Surviving in the B-game

This is an excerpt from the book 'Crash: Lessons from the Entry and Exit of…

by upGrad Feb 1, 2019

6 Key Elements which will Make YOU a Better Leader than You Are!

Here’s an excerpt from the book A Game Changer’s Memoir by ex-SEBI chief G.N.Bajpai. It recounts his…

by upGrad Nov 27, 2018

5 Valuable Lessons from the TATA Group for Entrepreneurs

This is an excerpt from the book The Tata Saga - Timeless Stories From India's Largest Business…

by upGrad Nov 9, 2018

Unleash the Power of Empathy in Life and Business

Here's an excerpt from the book Compassion Inc. by Gaurav Sinha. This reflects how you can…

by upGrad Nov 6, 2018

UpGrad Trends to Tend [October 2018 – II]

What’s happening? Where is it happening? How is it happening? Presenting UpGrad Trends to Tend where we talk…

by upGrad Oct 29, 2018

UpGrad Trends to Tend [October 2018]

What's happening? Where is it happening? How is it happening? Presenting UpGrad Trends to Tend…

by upGrad Oct 15, 2018

5 Important Tips for Managers on Business Law

This is an excerpt from the book 'Business Law for Managers' written by Anurag K Agarwal.…

by upGrad Oct 1, 2018

Choosing your Guru: Why and How

This is an excerpt from the book 'Chanakya and the Art of Getting Rich' by…

by upGrad Sep 10, 2018

Revealed: How UpGrad Disrupted the Online Education Industry

Growth hacking: A combination of coding, data intelligence and marketing. It doesn't take a lot…

by upGrad Aug 30, 2018

How a New Generation of Women is Redefining India Inc.

This is an excerpt from the book ‘Daughters of Legacy - How a New Generation…

by upGrad Aug 9, 2018

6 Things You can Learn from Maggi!

This is an excerpt from the book 'The Two-Minute Revolution' by Sangeeta Talwar. This book provokes…

by upGrad Jul 11, 2018

What Customers Don’t Tell you about Buyer-Seller Relationships

This is an excerpt from the book 'Games Customers Play' by Ramesh Dorairaj. The book explains…

by upGrad Jul 11, 2018

7 Reasons Why a Business Degree is Not Important to be Successful

This is an excerpt from the book 'Disrupt and Conquer: How TTK Prestige Became a Billion-Dollar…

by upGrad May 16, 2018

Data Engineers: Myths vs. Realities

From self-driven cars to automatic tagging in images, data science has come a long way.…

by upGrad May 9, 2018

Big Data Engineers: Myths vs. Realities

The data present with the organisations is increasing with every passing minute. This data is…

by upGrad May 7, 2018

Adventures of a Techie-Turned-Farmer

This is an excerpt from the book 'Moong over Microchips: Adventures of a Techie-Turned-Farmer' by Venkat…

by upGrad Apr 17, 2018

Data Analysts: Myths vs. Realities

As data analytics started getting more relevant to the everyday operations of any organisation, the…

by upGrad Apr 5, 2018

Data Scientists: Myths vs Realities

Anything that gains momentum quickly tends to become what everyone is talking about. And, the…

by upGrad Apr 5, 2018

The Coffee Can Portfolio: Robust Returns with a Low Degree of Uncertainty

This is an excerpt from the book ‘Coffee Can Investing: The Low-Risk Road to Stupendous…

by upGrad Mar 1, 2018

Real Individual Growth, the Catalyst for Success

This is an excerpt from the book ‘Catalyst’ by Chandramouli Venkatesan. Chandramouli Venkatesan has a…

by upGrad Feb 28, 2018

The Business of Data Security is Booming!

This is an excerpt from the book ‘Breach: Remarkable Stories of Espionage and Data Theft…

by upGrad Feb 1, 2018

#IndianExpressUpGradTalks: Ready for the Future…of Learning?

The first edition of UpGrad Talks with the Indian Express focused on what constitutes continuous…

by upGrad Jan 15, 2018

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Challenges of Being a Start-Up CEO!

This is an excerpt from the book ‘A Making Of A CEO’ by Sandeep K.…

by upGrad Jan 11, 2018

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5 Important Traits to Look for While Hiring for Startups

This is an excerpt from the book 'Cut the Crap and Jargon: Lessons from the…

by upGrad Jan 4, 2018

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When in Business, do it like Sindhis!

These are two excerpts from the book ‘How Sindhis Do Business - Paiso’ by Maya…

by upGrad Nov 10, 2017

The Soft Skills of a Product Manager

A Product Manager has to be a cross-functional leader, who has to get involved in…

by upGrad Oct 23, 2017

The Hard Skills of a Product Manager

As a Product Manager, the ultimate responsibility for the product’s launch and success rests on…

by upGrad Oct 23, 2017

Infographic: What After IT? Top 5 Transitions You Can Make

India’s beleaguered $150 billion IT services industry is facing an existential crisis. This is due…

by upGrad May 24, 2017

12 Ways to Connect Data Analytics to Business Outcomes

Today, Data Analytics is one of the most exciting trends across industries and has proven its…

by upGrad Mar 15, 2017

10 Things That Made 2016 Epic At UpGrad

2016 has been a fantastic year at UpGrad. From enrolling our 1000th student to launching…

by upGrad Jan 2, 2017

UpGrad’s Entrepreneurship Impact Story

The government of India wants to create 1 million entrepreneurs over the next 2-3 years,…

by upGrad Oct 25, 2016

A Day In The Life Of A Product Manager

Note: This article is originally written by Dinesh Vernekar, Head of Growth - Gaana, Product…

by upGrad Jun 22, 2016

5 Things Every Entrepreneur Can Learn From Their Mother

It is said that an entrepreneur needs to nurture his company like a little child…

by upGrad May 8, 2016

How Organisations can Benefit from Bridging the Data Scientist Gap

Note: The article was originally written for LinkedIn Pulse by Sameer Dhanrajani, Business Leader at Cognizant…

by upGrad May 3, 2016

Enlarge the analytics & data science talent pool

Note: The article was originally written by Sameer Dhanrajani, Business Leader at Cognizant Technology Solutions. A…

by upGrad Mar 1, 2016

5 Important Questions Entrepreneurs Should Be Asking Themselves

Today marks the first day of our first course StartUp With UpGrad. We've spent months…

by upGrad Nov 25, 2015