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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower - Project Management

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Who controls access to the third-party accounts, if any? The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation. Graphic design?

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How to Control Project Scope and Avoid Scope Creep

PM Basics

You need to start to control project scope right away. Controlling the project scope is arguably the most challenging project management activity. So, as you see, scope creep may come from project owners, from your side, or even from things that are not under your control. What Does it Mean to Control Scope?

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How to write an executive summary stakeholders will love

Planio

Recommendation: The project remains well-controlled and will continue to report any issues as they arise to the monthly project Steering Committee, chaired by Mark Wilson (Chief Technology Officer). This three-month lead time would delay the project’s timelines and cause a loss of approximately $42,000 in project benefits.

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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.

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GanttPRO Review + Mini Tutorial

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You can set a notification for a fixed deadline as well, to help you get control over the deadline, by sending you an email a few days in advance (or whenever you want to be alerted about the upcoming deadline of doom). You can create personal calendars for resources to allow for holiday time , or part-time.

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Cargo Cult Agile — A Checklist to Open the Discussion

Scrum.org

So they’ve arranged to make things like runways, to put fires along the sides of the runways, to make a wooden hut for a man to sit in, with two wooden pieces on his head for headphones and bars of bamboo sticking out like antennas—he’s the controller—and they wait for the airplanes to land. They’re doing everything right. No airplanes land.

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A Guide to Scoro for Marketing Agencies: C-Suite Edition

Scoro

Work-in-progress reports can help you to effectively manage your project budgets by providing a clear overview of the billable time and project-related costs. A control hub for your business. That’s why many companies involved in project-based work are now taking on new hires to specifically oversee project management.