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Money is important, but it is not what drives me

Gunther Verheyen

Money was not what drove my wife and I when I gave up my position as software engineer and aspiring project manager in favor of running a bookshop (1996). It wasn’t when I decided to go completely independent with my one-person company Ullizee-Inc (2016) and not be part of any fixed structure for the time being (which is to this date).

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E. McMahon, Cross Talk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering , July/August 2015, pp. Architecting Large Scale Agile Software Development: A Risk–Driven Approach,” Ipek Ozkaya, Michael Gagliardi, Robert L. Kirkeboen, G., &

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Top 3 Essential Technical Project Manager Skills

Wrike

Simply put, a technical PM plans, schedules, and manages IT-related projects – e.g., projects that support software engineering, app development, network security… you get the idea. In fact, a 2016 article in CIO listed technical knowledge as the most in-demand project management skill.

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Skills Mismatch | What Is It & How to Bridge the Gap

Teamweek

Don’t confuse the mismatch with skills gaps (specific missing skills) or skills shortages (insufficient skilled workers in an industry). Each issue has clear causes, results, and solutions, with some involving up-skilling, re-skilling, and education-industry partnerships. How do skills mismatches happen?

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements

MPUG

I actually got my degree in software engineering and moved up into project management like a lot of us did back in the day. Individual contributor team, lead section, lead project manager, program manager, director of engineering. Adhere to organization and industry standards. By education and training.