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Joint Application Development (JAD)

ActiveCollab

Joint Development Application (JAD) is a very common technique in business analysis world. It brings system developers and users together in a productive and creative environment through a structured approach that involves discussion groups with the goal to obtain requirements and specifications. Be unbiased and neutral.

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Agile project management: A beginner's guide

Moira Alexander

Stakeholders and developers closely collaborate on a daily basis. The more traditional cumbersome methodologies like waterfall typically require entire project groups to meet and discuss full project goals throughout each phase. Adaptive software development (ASD). Feature-driven development (FDD).

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Project scope management approach example

Techno-PM

In the example of developing a mobile application for an e-commerce company, the project scope can be defined as follows: Project Objectives: Clearly state the primary objectives of the project. This includes insights, challenges, best practices, and recommendations related to defining, controlling, and closing out the project scope.

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Top 5 Project Management Certifications To Become A Great Project Manager!

The Lazy Project Manager

From software to hardware upgrades to security patches, application development and software itself, a project manager has to keep their teams on task and production. This includes planning, initiating, controlling, monitoring and closing the project. In the past few years, the PM jobs have got increased to 425%.

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Create a Learning Environment:  Profit from Your Mistakes

Project Management Essentials

In the 1950s, Douglas McGregor developed a theory of management behaviors—Theory X and Theory Y. They are controlling, closed, and unapproachable. We typically consider experiments to be the domain of research and innovation groups. How can a project team or operations group experiment? Use the PDCA model.

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Agile project management- A tutorial

Binfire

In 2001 a group of software engineers and scientists in IT industry got together and wrote Agile Manifesto. It was obvious to the group that iterative and incremental development based on lean principles is the best way to develop software applications. This is very close to my heart.

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Agile project management- A tutorial

Binfire

The conclusion was reached by the research team that an incremental approach in software development which creates a working prototype quickly and then incrementally improves the software both in terms of functionality and quality works much better for most large projects. This is very close to my heart. Amazingly nature works.

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