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GanttPRO Review + Mini Tutorial

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The colours are fine, but I would love a red so I could flag milestones and tasks as overdue or significantly at risk. So you can create custom filters e.g. for showing all milestones at risk for your monthly report. You can create personal calendars for resources to allow for holiday time , or part-time.

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PM, CEM, and Covid-19: Reflections

MPUG

Personally, I never paid enough heed to Disaster Planning and Risk Management until after leaving the USA and becoming a PM nomad , but once I was out in the world, it became clear that I had to do much better. Warning Sign #3: PMs are Complacent During the Good Times, and “It Is what It is” when Not. I have to ask “Why not?”.

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Agile Unplugged: EP01 | Mike Cottmeyer and Brian Sondergaard

Leading Agile

I’m sitting there as this relatively young project manager, teaching all these folks at the bank about Agile, right, and risk management and things. So, what were some of the key takeaways from that time? And then, so LeadingAgile will have its 10-year anniversary August first, 2020, yeah. What helped us be successful?

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What It Takes to Become Remote-Ready

Scoro

It’s becoming painfully clear that in 2020 it’s not enough for companies to be just pro remote working, because people want better work-life balance. State of Remote Work report by Buffer found that 99% of respondents are looking to work from home, at least some of the time, for the remainder of their careers.

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5 Easy Steps to Keep Your Engineers Engaged

Wrike

As an engineer, you’d be lucky to have everything go perfectly: the project’s cool, the stack is relevant, and the tasks are at a sweet spot of competence/difficulty/interesting ratio at the same time. 2020 became the year of the pandemic. It takes an incredible amount of effort, time, and money to hire a new engineer.

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9 Best Practices for Recruiting Developers With Skills Tests

Teamweek

When hiring developers, you need to be on the lookout for a combination of hard, technical , and soft skills that will add value to your company. That’s where the skills-first hiring process comes in. Hiring developers gets easier when you modernize your recruitment process. The language itself was created in 1959.