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Change Management Strategy in Projects

Project Pulse Journal

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Are you struggling to keep your projects on track amidst constant change? Change is inevitable in businesses and organizations and requires a strategic approach. Change management strategies in projects are now an expectation and a relevant skill for the project and non-project professionals alike.

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Contracting for Agile Software Development Efforts

Scrum.org

Contracting for Agile software development projects continues to be a major organizational impediment. Combine that tendency with management’s desire to protect their jobs when the bad things happen. Please do avoid creating change request processes or Change Management boards.

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Why is it a project manager’s job to fix companies?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Paul Major from Program Framework suggested that we adopt the premise that the business world is changing around us with the consumerization of IT, the rise of co-creation, and collaboration with customers and competitors. Find me in our Facebook group, Project Management Cafe , and let me know your thoughts! What do you think?

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Change Control Board: Roles, Responsibilities & Processes

ProjectManager.com

The importance of a change control board to a successful, high-quality project cannot be overstated. What Is a Change Control Board? A change control board is sometimes referred to as a change review board. It’s a group of people from the project team that meets regularly to consider changes to the project.

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7 Ways to Sell Agile to Project Stakeholders

LiquidPlanner

Whether you’re making the move to Agile project management in your development group or creating an Agile process for your in-house project management methodology, chances are you’re going to have to sell this change to executives in your organization. Stack the team with people who thrive on ambiguity and change.

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What can I do with a degree in project management?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

That’s due to: an increase in the number of jobs requiring project management-oriented skills (i.e. Many of these roles are predicted to be in software development and sub-sectors like app development, IT security and healthcare tech. For example, let’s say you have a job as an IT team leader or marketing manager.

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What Is the Definition of Done for Agile Teams?

ProjectManager.com

In terms of software development, done is when something is coded to standards, reviewed, implemented, tested, integrated and documented. Agile has been around since 2001, when a small group created the Agile Manifesto in response to traditional approaches of managing software development.