Ukrainian
IT Awards

We are looking for the best business analysts in the software development industry.

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This category features people whose work demonstrates prominent skills at creating a notable value for their stakeholders. You may become this year's star winner if:

• You are a value-focused professional, who can demonstrate the effective use of relevant skill set of approaches, techniques, and tools to get big results;
• You permanently highlight the significance of the Business Analysis job inside and out of your organization;
• Sharing knowledge, tailored techniques, and creative solutions — is an integral part of your day to day must-haves;
• You are always looking for innovative approaches and strive to bring visible and sustainable contribution to the projects you are dealing with;
• You carry both for the project's success, benefits for the end-user, and social good overall.

While evaluation we’ll consider:

• ‘Creating value’: the value achieved through the application of your knowledge and skills to the business problem and project challenges;
• Adherence to best practices and industry standards;
• Innovative approach: novel techniques and approaches to analytics;
• Social responsibility: knowledge sharing, community development;
• Awards, certifications, scientific research, and other achievements.

Please fill out the application and showcase:

• Three cases from your own experience highlighting analytical practices;
• Describe the value you brought to your clients/stakeholders, your company, or the client. Feel free to cover as many aspects as you can from the evaluation list above.
• Tell us what you’ve done and why this solution or project is important to you.

We are ready to award your work and share it with the IT Business Analysis community.

Please note that in scope of this nomination we are assessing personal achievements, not team or subordinate contribution. Any practices and approaches which were not implemented by associates, but by their subordinates will not be evaluated or assessed.

We are searching for the outstanding IT design talents for the annual competition in Ukraine. “Design” for us is a means of improving people’s lives, so any aspect of this discipline will be considered for the successful participation - whether you are designing a service, a product, a user experience or user interface, in a digital or physical world.

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We will use the following evaluation criteria for the applications:

• Project evaluation: the challenge and outcomes;
• Application assessment: the information provided, simple and clear definition and presentation;
• Design process: process description, arguments used to drive the solution;
• Best practices & industrial standards adherence;
• Social responsibility: knowledge sharing, community development;
• Awards, certifications, scientific research and other achievements.

Be bold and creative, share the case that you are most proud of, describe and present it trying to cover as many aspects as you can from the structure listed above. Show us what you have done, tell us why does it inspire you so much, and we will help to share your success with the IT Design community.

Please note that in scope of this nomination we are assessing personal achievements, not team or subordinate contribution. Any practices and approaches which were not implemented by associates, but by their subordinates will not be evaluated or assessed.

The Goal of the nomination is to give an opportunity for professionals who share the values of DevOps Culture in our country to declare themselves and show the results of their creative search and hard work. Often, the results of applying Culture require original infrastructure solutions or are inseparable from the infrastructure architecture. That is why we explicitly mention infrastructure in the name of the nomination and emphasize our interest in the practical results of DevOps. We are awaiting submission to the competition of Personalities with a specific example of the Project.

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DevOps Project evaluation criteria:

• General Achievements, simple and clear definition;
• Project success parameters;
• Progress at Technical foursquare - Suitability <-> Efficiency <-> Interoperability <-> Maintainability;
• Achievements at Business triangle - Usability <-> Compatibility <-> Reliability;
• Clear results at ownership costs and security with measures - Security <-> Portability <-> Supportability;

However, we do not forget about the role of Personality and its impact on the industry. Therefore, we are interested in and consider from applicant:

• Community expertise growth and knowledge sharing;
• Community developed in Ukraine and worldwide;
• Speaking at conference;

• Published articles in the industry magazines and resources.

Do not forget that we evaluate personal achievements, not team or your subordinates. Therefore, we will not take into account NON yours achievements.

In this nomination we are intended to pay an appreciation to the hard work and outstanding achievements in IT education, popularization of advanced engineering knowledge and practices and IT community development. We evaluate IT educational projects for all age groups starting from secondary school to adult education.

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Our key evaluation focuses are:

• Project scale;
• Audience engagement;
• Project leader’s / team personal engagement;
• Digital educational solutions implementation;
• New educational approaches and methods application;
• Width of range of educational competencies;
• Project education implementation;
• International influence and recognition.

In order to create an award-winning application, please compose the educational project description highlighting the key focuses listed above.

Please, note that in the scope of this nomination we assess both personal and team achievements. Share your best educational practices and let’s take IT education to the next level together!

In the scope of this nomination we are looking for brightest talents in the management field. No matter whether you are managing Team, Project, Program, Portfolio, Product, Service or the whole organization, we evaluate only management practices and skills you've demonstrated.

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Our key evaluation focuses are:

• Constraints Management - tools and techniques to manage Scope, Schedule, Cost, Resources, Legal environment or any other limitation that you faced;
• Strategy and Goals Management - methodologies and frameworks to set up long term vision, goals and targets for teams and individuals;
• Life Cycle Management - choosing the right life cycle (e.g. Plan-Driven, Iterative, V-Model, Service Model, etc) and practices to manage specific stages (e.g. Planning, Execution, Closure, Design, Maintenance, etc.);
• Value and Benefits Management - how you measure, evaluate and control performance, effectiveness and impact on the business;
• Communication and Stakeholder Management;
• Governance;
• Quality Management;
• Human Resource/People Management;
• Risk Management.

We are not looking for widely used practices (e.g. Scrum), rather emergent and innovative ways to achieve goals by application of the management toolset (e.g. Monte-Carlo risk analysis). In order to create an award-winning application, please share up to 3 cases from your own experience highlighting managing practices according to the structure above. Do not hesitate to share experience of fail or crisis management.

Please note that in scope of this nomination we are assessing personal achievements, not team or subordinate contribution. Any practices and approaches which were not implemented by associates, but by their subordinates will not be evaluated or assessed.

We are looking for the best product managers in the software development industry. For this award we’re considering performance in the following roles:

• product manager
• product owner

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This category features people whose work demonstrates great skill at creating value for their product. Our potential winner is a value-focused professional, who can demonstrate the effective use of relevant tools to get big results. This person also highlights the significance of Product Management jobs inside of the organization and out. Sharing their knowledge, specific techniques, and creative solutions is an integral part of the work for our winner. When selecting the best candidate we will take into account the innovation of their approach and their contribution to the product’s success as well as its further benefits for society.

Here’s a list of the other key areas we’ll be evaluating when assessing the nominees:

• Creating value: the value achieved through the application of your solution to the business problem at hand
• Adherence to best practices and industry standards
• Innovative approach: novel techniques and approaches to analytics
• Social responsibility: knowledge sharing, community development
• Awards, certifications, scientific research, and other achievements

Please fill out the application and share up to 3 cases from your own experience highlighting analytical practices. Describe the value you brought to your company of client and try to cover as many aspects as you can from the evaluation list above. Tell us what you’ve done and why this product or project is important to you. We are ready to award your work and share it with the Product Management communities.

In the scope of these nominations we are looking for brightest individuals that made the biggest impact on the business or/and professional community in the quality assurance area. No matter if you supported a successful launch of a product, managed a project or portfolio from a quality perspective, developed a testing service, we evaluate Impact that you brought to the wider ecosystem and honors outstanding achievement. We honor individuals that improve the quality of the product(s), and drive quality changes inside the companies and contribute to the Ukrainiun IT community growth.

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During evaluation our primary focus will be:

• Projects evaluation;
• Best practices and industrial standards evaluation;
• Social responsibility and community development.

Which reached significant results in one or multiply areas:

• Community developed in Ukraine and worldwide (not only internal in the company);
• Accomplished certifications;
• Provided delivery with high quality and control.

We are looking for innovative business leaders who broughts the impact to the ecosystem and provided delivery with high quality. In order to create an award-winning application could you please share your journey , top challenges which you have overcome and solutions in details, value delivered and evidence.

Please note that in scope of this nomination we are assessing individual achievements.

In the scope of these nominations, we are looking for an extraordinary example of the leadership, and technology excellence by a Software Architect who was responsible for a solution design satisfying given business goals. The candidate should also demonstrate awareness of modern architecture practices, approaches and IT landscape in overall.

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We evaluate the result of your work as the complete engineering solution satisfying certain business needs confirmed by engineering and architectural materials and ideally the product being live and accessible for review. We honor initiatives that improve business or social capabilities.

During the evaluation, our primary focus will be:

• Problem statement definition, reason and objectives of the software solution
• Key technological and engineering decisions integrated into the solution
• Impact in the broader ecosystem of organization and business
• Future integration capabilities
• Business or social influence if any

Which reached significant results in one or multiplied areas:

• Value Created
• Solution Design (covering different aspects like scalability, reliability, maintainability etc.)
• Integration Capabilities

Must-have (tangible deliverables to be validates during the candidate’s enrollment)

• Proven experience of influential use of architecture with the evidence of the successful system launch
• Have hands-on experience with one of the major modern technologies (.NET, Java etc.). · Proven record of building and leading engineering team
• Experience in the building process of company-wide architecture documentation maintenance

Nice-have

• Contribution to the technical community (publications, articles, books etc.) Participation in conferences and user groups promoting architecture practices and supporting of their adoption among the community.
• Have proven records of cross-program and cross-project architecture strategies, opportunities, and problem resolution
• Have experience in auditing projects to ensure conformance and compliance of projects and programs with Architect guidelines
• Regularly monitor how technology landscape changes on the market, understand how emerging technologies could supplement customer’s business in order to optimize, improve existing ones or introduce new one if applicable

We are looking for innovative software architects who brought the effect to the IT ecosystems of organizations. To create an award-winning application, may you please share your journey from the idea to implementation, top 5 challenges and approaches which you have overcome, value delivered and evidence. Reference of your colleagues and stakeholders.

In the scope of this nomination we are looking for brightest and smartest software engineers, no matter what technology stack or industrial domain you have been working for. We are going to look at your knowledge of software development practices, engineering skills and problem solving capabilities.

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Our evaluation focus will be on following areas:

• Using of Modern software engineering best-practices;
• Solid knowledge of various Software Development Life Cycle aspects and well-established processes;
• Software engineering theory and Architectural and design patterns;
• Practical use-cases of complex engineering problem solving;
• Extraordinary application of modern software frameworks and tools to unabvious situations;
• Personal contribution into development of challenging functionality or innovative solution;
• Technological risks evaluation and mitigation;
• Engineering consulting and advisory experience;
• Contribution to engineering profession and community development would also be considered during evaluation;

We would highly appreciate examples which highlight your experience, clearly reveal your strengths and capabilities, and will help to make a fair evaluation based on the above listed focus-areas.

Also, please note that in scope of this nomination we are assessing personal achievements, not team or your subordinates contribution.

In the scope of these nominations, we are looking for brightest teams that made the biggest impact on business or professional communities or people's everyday lives. No matter if you are successfully launched a product, managed a project or portfolio, developed a service, created a scalable business, launched a non-profit organization, we evaluate Impact that you and your team brought to wider ecosystem and honors outstanding achievement as evidenced by results and/or contributions to its sector, constituents, community or society at large. We honor initiatives that improve people’s lives and the world around us.

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During evaluation our primary focus will be:

• Impact on Business Development;
• Impact on professional community;
• Impact to the wider ecosystem and people's everyday life.

Which reached significant results in one or multiply areas:

• Value Created;
• Scalability;
• Social Impact.

We are looking for innovative business or non-profit organizations who broughts the impact to the ecosystem. In order to create an award-winning application could you please share your journey from the idea to implementation, top 5 challenges and solutions which you have overcome, value delivered and evidence.

Please note that in scope of this nomination we are assessing team achievements.

In the scope of these nominations, we are looking for brilliant teams that researched any areas or business industries with the main goal to achieve a new approach or to invite new technology or improve popularized frameworks, languages for professional communities.

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We evaluate the result of your work that you and your team brought to extend the existing ecosystem and problem statement. To outstanding achievement as evidenced by results and/or contributions to its sector, constituents, community or society at large. We honor initiatives that improve IT industry tools and the future capabilities for this research and innovation that will impact in the future for business, science, healthcare etc.

During the evaluation, our primary focus will be:

• Problem statement definition
• Reason and objectives of the research
• Impact in the broader ecosystem and professional IT communities
• Future integration capabilities
• Business or social influence shortly

Which reached significant results in one or multiplied areas:

• Value Created
• Scalability
• Integration capabilities

We are looking for an innovative business or non-profit organizations who brought the effect to the IT ecosystems or frameworks. To create an award-winning application, may you please share your journey from the idea to implementation, top 5 challenges and approaches which you have overcome, value delivered and evidence.

Please note that in the scope of this nomination we are assessing team achievements.