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GanttPRO Review + Mini Tutorial

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This could represent a workstream, group of tasks or literally a sub-project, if you are planning a programme. You can create personal calendars for resources to allow for holiday time , or part-time. The Board View defaults to Open, In Progress, Done (by the assignee) and Closed (by the PM). Task hierarchy.

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Is JIRA a Counterproductive Project Management Software In Today’s Market?

nTask

The latter group involves small businesses and individuals who couldn’t achieve one of the following: Get the full potential of a project’s worth from a PM software. He never even used Jira, or came close to touching it! I am not talking about the past negative perception about JIRA – those times are long gone. Think about it.

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8 Steps to Build and Manage a Remote Engineering Team

Planio

When it comes to hiring engineers, it’s hard to argue with the benefits of going remote. As Phil Freo , head of product and engineering at the fully remote startup, Close.io, told us: “When recruiting, it was hard to stand out in Silicon Valley among all the other tech startups hiring. How to find, interview, and hire remote engineers.

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What Is Upskilling & How to Build an Upskilling Program

Teamweek

Upskilling employees not only helps develop their career path but also future – proofs your business, makes your employees more productive, closes your skill gaps, and helps you retain the best talent. Upskilling helps employees and companies close skills gaps and gives businesses a competitive advantage.

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Everything Product Managers Need to Know about Scalability: 10 Ways to Design and Build for the Future

Planio

Scalability issues are often hiring, planning, resource management, and process issues in disguise. Here are ten ways to address those issues and make scalability a part of your team’s DNA. Hiring and resource management: Scalability refers to your team as well. Scalability is often a hiring issue.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

The Use of Premortem Techniques in Risk Identification,” EFCOG Position Paper, Project Delivery Working Group, Risk Management Task Team, May 2017. Brian Derfer, CTO. Introducing the Agile Risk Management (ARM) Framework,” Brian Derfer, CTO, Agile Six Applications, Inc., Order Contract, C. Strategic Risk Analysis ?

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

The Use of Premortem Techniques in Risk Identification,” EFCOG Position Paper, Project Delivery Working Group, Risk Management Task Team, May 2017. Brian Derfer, CTO. Introducing the Agile Risk Management (ARM) Framework,” Brian Derfer, CTO, Agile Six Applications, Inc., Order Contract, C. Strategic Risk Analysis ?