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

Teamweek

This mismatch can take various forms, such as horizontal, vertical, or skills obsolescence, and has significant consequences like decreased productivity, job dissatisfaction, and economic impacts. For employers, it can result in higher recruitment costs , longer time-to-hire, reduced business productivity, and increased employee turnover.

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5 Steps to Crafting Your Ideal Candidate Profile

Teamweek

In the world of HR, this is how hiring managers describe ideal candidates – those that tick all the boxes. In fact, hiring managers use ICPs to create better job descriptions and improve their sourcing strategies and, ultimately, the quality of hire. For example, a salesperson will have different motivations to an NGO project lead.

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Software Estimating Resources

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The reason for this resource page is the lack of understanding of how to estimate, the urban myths about software estimating, and the fallacies that estimating is not needed, when developing software, in the presence of uncertainty, when spending other peoples money. Flint, School of Management, Working Paper Series, September 2005.”.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. The same process for estimating is applied to multi-billion dollar projects we work. And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . 73 ‒ 78.

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How to Use nTask for Waterfall Project Management – A Practical Guide for First Timers

nTask

We did an extensive analysis of various factors that influence waterfall project management. This helped us to simplify how nTask project management software can be used for solving such issues. Waterfall is a popular SDLC project management model. Background.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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Economics is a social science concerned chiefly with description and analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Throughout the software life cycle, there are many decision situations involving limited resources in which software engineering economics techniques provide useful assistance.

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Risk Management Resources

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Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003. Risk Management Papers. “A