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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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Infrastructure & Platform Management

Alan Parker Blog

Scope The infrastructure and platform management scope spans the entire lifecycle of infrastructure solutions, from the initial planning and design phase to deployment, operation, and eventual retirement. An effective technology plan ensures the IT infrastructure can adapt to and support business strategies and changes.

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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. Planning, Tracking, and Reducing Complex Project’s Value at Risk,” Tyson R.

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

Release Master : The management and approval of plans to release new versions to stakeholders. In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings (pp. In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings (pp. Beecham, S.,

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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. Planning, Tracking, and Reducing Complex Project’s Value at Risk,” Tyson R.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Our knowledge of this world - the planned and actual behaviors of the project. The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. Mazzuchi, and Shahram Sarkani, Systems Engineering , Volume 17, Issue 4, Winter 2014, Pages: 375–391.

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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.