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What Do Companies like Apple, Amazon and Google Look for in Project Managers?

Epicflow Blog

It’s a great plus for a project manager to have a formal qualification and receive a certificate demonstrating their proficiency. Project Management Institute suggests the following variants of certifications for PMs: . Understanding of project life-cycle and theories . Experience with Cloud Technology .

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Dealing with Murphy’s Law in Project Management: How to Protect Your Projects from Failure

Epicflow Blog

Read more: Fighting Uncertainty in Project Management: Arm Yourself with the Right Tool . These factors can result in project delays or falling beyond budget frames. Some tools can predict project success by analyzing project-related data.

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Agile Project Management for Distributed Teams

nTask

Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering requirements throughout the project life cycle. The distributed team concept is getting so endorsed that 50% of all of the US Workforce will be completely remote by the year 2020.

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Project Manager Interview Questions and Answers (Junior-Senior Levels)

PM Basics

Tell us about the main phases of a project. Tell us about Project Life Cycle.”. What do you know about project management?”. What does it mean to manage a project?”. What does a project manager do?”. One thing you need to know by heart is the Project Life Cycle in the industry you work in.

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Part II: A Simplified Approach to Determine IT Project Complexity

PM Times

Therefore, as we can see from the above flow, resources, roles, and rough allocation of resources can be estimated early in the project life cycle. As the project matures, other qualitative and quantitative information will help right-size the team to keep pace once the project duration has been determined.

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A Project Manager’s guide to Agile workflows

Resource Guru

In fact, Digital.ai’s 15th State of Agile Report found that the use of Agile workflows more than doubled across “non-IT lines of business”—including Operations, Marketing, HR, and Sales—from 2020 to 2021 alone. . Even now, companies are clamoring for PMs to use Agile project management to deliver greater business value.

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Project Resource Management: The Ultimate Guide on How to Master It

Rebel’s Guide to PM

One of the biggest obstacles in achieving the same is because many project managers are still relying on outdated legacy tools. Wellingtone’s Annual State of Project Management Report 2020 report states that, “only 23% of organizations use resource management solutions.”