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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. Whether it’s a business case, project plan, or market analysis, an executive summary is a great way to get the project’s most important information across quickly and clearly. Keep this to a maximum of 4 sentences.

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How to Control Project Scope and Avoid Scope Creep

PM Basics

I’ve been managing software development projects for more than 11 years. Scope creep is a change in the initially planned amount of work. But when you lose control of it, you delay your project, and additional work requires more budget. If yes, we can negotiate the change in the project timeline and budget.

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How to identify stakeholders? (+Identification Cheatsheet)

PM Basics

Identifying stakeholders allows you to create a stakeholder management plan with ‘targets’ to focus on. You can now think about ways to negate the potential threat they bring, perhaps by contracting the lunch preparation work to them instead. In that case, you must ensure your project is planned and conducted as such.

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Scrum for Newbies: How to Use Scrum to Tame Chaos

Wrike

There was precious little time to create the inbound marketing content we were hired for. It’s a method for accomplishing work where teams use principles from the Agile Manifesto made famous by pioneering software development teams back in 2001. Complete refit from wiring to heating to decoration.

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements

MPUG

Kyle: If you have any questions during today’s presentation, please send those over at any time using the chat question box on the go to webinar control panel. We do plan to answer your questions throughout the session today. This is part one of the series. Fletcher Hearns: Does the project meet schedule and budget?

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

The Effectiveness of Risk Management: An Analysis of Project Risk Planning Across Industries and Countries,” Ofer Zwikael and Mark Ahn, Risk Analysis , Vol. Project risk management: lessons learned from software development environment,” Young Hoon Kwak and Jim Stoddard,” Technovation , 24(11), pp. 3, March 2002. Raz and E. “A

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. 3, March 2002. 255, April 2010. 920, November 2004.