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Software Project Management: Why It’s Different

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Every project is different, of course, but the differences when managing software development projects are especially so, due to its distinct life-cycle processes. What Is Software Project Management? Software project management is the planning, managing and tracking of software development projects.

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Organizational Process Assets: What does that even mean?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

One key tool to success is understanding how to use organizational process assets effectively. But what is an organizational process asset (OPA)? OPAs and the PMP exam Let’s face it: I first came across the term OPA while reviewing PMP exam training material. What are Organizational Process Assets?

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Capital Projects: Capital Planning, Budgeting and Funding

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Let’s take a look at capital projects, explore the idea of a capital asset and delve into the process of capital planning. These capital projects can be infrastructure-based, such as roads and railways, when launched by the government. Equity Funding: This is a process by which capital is raised by selling shares of a company.

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Public Infrastructure: Project Management as a Key Success Factor

Inloox

Even though this project not quite reaches the epic financial miscalculation of Berlin’s BER airport, it again shows the difficulties realizing public infrastructure projects within their tightly constraint project plan. During the extensive approval processes alone, inflation can already pose a threat to budget planning.

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The Low Code No Code Opportunity

The Strategic Project Manager

“Low code no code” refers to digitization through more efficient means – through “citizen development” It is a growing trend that shows potential for growing and evolving over the next decade and beyond. The Problem – or the “Job to be done” Programming software is complicated.

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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower - Project Management

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. What does a business leader do in this situation?

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What Is an IT Budget? IT Budgeting Basics (Template Included)

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This will include an accurate estimate of decentralized IT spending and shadow IT spending, the former being the distribution of functions, control and information, while the latter is IT-related hardware and software use without the knowledge of the IT department. This real-time data will then be available across our software features.

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