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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower - Project Management

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Who controls access to the third-party accounts, if any? The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation. Graphic design?

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How to Control Project Scope and Avoid Scope Creep

PM Basics

You need to start to control project scope right away. Controlling the project scope is arguably the most challenging project management activity. So, as you see, scope creep may come from project owners, from your side, or even from things that are not under your control. What Does it Mean to Control Scope?

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How to write an executive summary stakeholders will love

Planio

Recommendation: The project remains well-controlled and will continue to report any issues as they arise to the monthly project Steering Committee, chaired by Mark Wilson (Chief Technology Officer). This three-month lead time would delay the project’s timelines and cause a loss of approximately $42,000 in project benefits.

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GanttPRO Review + Mini Tutorial

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You can set a notification for a fixed deadline as well, to help you get control over the deadline, by sending you an email a few days in advance (or whenever you want to be alerted about the upcoming deadline of doom). You can create personal calendars for resources to allow for holiday time , or part-time.

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Cargo Cult Agile — A Checklist to Open the Discussion

Scrum.org

So they’ve arranged to make things like runways, to put fires along the sides of the runways, to make a wooden hut for a man to sit in, with two wooden pieces on his head for headphones and bars of bamboo sticking out like antennas—he’s the controller—and they wait for the airplanes to land. They’re doing everything right. No airplanes land.

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PM, CEM, and Covid-19: Reflections

MPUG

Here is what is so baffling especially now: all non-US contracts I’ve ever signed include a boiler-plate Force majeure clause, but those are clicked through faster than the legalese on a social media app, and this class of risk is rarely reflected in any of the planning exercises that these contracts pertain to.

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Agency tech stack: 44 solutions to supercharge your teams

Resource Guru

For example, if your plan includes hiring a sales team, you’ll want to consider how the tech you choose now will benefit them later. Perhaps it’s the CTO, Head of Technology, or even Head of Project Management? Hiring and recruitment: Find, attract, and nurture the best talent Search and filter for talent in Working Not Working.