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Organizational Competencies: What They Are and How to Develop Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I worked in the IT team at my old job. We did a fair amount of off-the-shelf software deployments, and we frequently made the point that we were a healthcare company, not a software development firm. I would not have said we had software development as one of our core organizational competencies.

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How to Overcome 12 Common Requirements Mistakes

Project Risk Coach

How often have you found new requirements towards the end of your projects? Or perhaps your team said they had gathered the requirements, but in reality, the team had hastily rushed through the requirement process resulting in rework, missed deadlines, and another blown budget. Poor requirements change process.

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How to Manage Project Scope Without Scope Creep (with examples)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

One of the reasons for that is scope creep – and that’s what this article is all about. Scope creep is the more common term but you might hear both, especially if you are working in software development. Ultimately, it isn’t the project manager coming up with new requirements and asking the team to “just do it”.

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What to Do When a Bad Moon is Arising on Your Project

Project Risk Coach

Ever have this sinking feeling that a bad moon is arising on your project? How do we keep events in the potential category rather than in the realized category? Let’s start with a better understanding of threats and issues and how to identify them. Imagine that you are managing a software development project.

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How to be a Superhero Project Manager

LiquidPlanner

In honor of National Superhero Day on April 28th, this article gives tips on how we can rise to “superhero status” as project managers. In most cases, project managers aren’t the functional manager of project team members, and it isn’t always clear what priorities have been set. Protect all assets.

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How to write an executive summary stakeholders will love

Planio

According to some estimates , PMs spend 90% of their time communicating with team members, sponsors, and stakeholders. The recommendation Executive summary example #1: Project status update Executive summary example #2: Resource decision How to write a great executive summary for your next project 1. The current status or problem 3.

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How To Deal With Remote Work Motivation Killers

Proofhub

According to our friends from a Dallas software development company , proper task planning and sticking to the work hours is important to set boundaries between life and work and promoting a healthy remote work environment. Try ProofHub for your remote team ! How to Stay Motivated When Working Remotely?