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Why There’s No Such Thing as an IT Project

Rebel’s Guide to PM

A BCS Digital Leaders survey points out that for 55% of respondents, business transformation and organizational change are the top management issues for the coming year. Business change’ is facing challenging times. Businesses know that they have to make changes to processes and products to stay competitive.

2015 264
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2017 Project Management Trends To Watch

Rebel’s Guide to PM

With big data processing capabilities, your software could sift through the estimates and actuals, and then flag the three team members with the worst record for getting their estimates right so that you can appropriately challenge them. Project management and change management have collided. Collaboration.

2017 150
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What Should You Know about the PMP Exam 2019 Changes

MPUG

The last time such a study was conducted was in 2015. It resulted in changes to the exam in 2016. The current year’s study has resulted in the new ECO, and hence the PMP exam from December 2019 onward will change. Overall Changes. Change # 3: Tasks. Important Dates.

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Project Management Trends (2018 Edition)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I don’t think any of the project management trends articles I have read this year have mentioned this, but perceived customisation is something I feel is such a big deal for us, particularly in change management and transformation roles, that I am preparing a presentation/webinar on it. It’s another consumer trend.

2018 255
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Artificial Intelligence and Project Management: The First Step

The IIL Blog

Regarding Project Management (PM), the field of our interest, experts predict that by 2030, 80% of the work of today’s project management discipline will be eliminated as AI takes on traditional project management functions such as data collection, tracking and reporting [4].

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Top 10 Lean/ Kanban Books for IT, Software and Knowledge Work!

Digite

Several good books have been written on Kanban and its application to various business processes, especially to Scrum, since David Anderson published his original Kanban “blue book”. If you want to improve or create the flow in your product development process start with this book! Real World Kanban. By Mattias Skarin.

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What Makes Organisations Fail to Execute Their Strategy?

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

Presumably, it will just happen now that senior management have expressed the strategic direction? Maybe by some magical process of osmosis? Of course, it won’t: the figures depend on which report we’re reading, but as a good middle figure let’s pick McKinsey, who tell us that 70% of strategic change programs fail. [2].

Executing 107