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7 Uncomfortable Truths for Project Managers

ProjectManager.com

It will be your stakeholders who decide whether to: Adopt the processes you build. This has led me to conclude that of all the project management processes and disciplines, stakeholder engagement is paramount. Famously, software engineer and author Tim Lister said that: “Risk management is how adults manage projects.”

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Project Management Guidelines (Part 1) - What We Can Learn From Project Failures

Inloox

A good project manager knows that some developments are out of their control. The only way to relieve that stress is to remain calm about the situation and take action to keep the situation under control. The very process of identifying a risk eliminates its most damaging characteristic: surprise. " Norman R.

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Product-Market Fit: What Is It & Why Is It Important?

ProjectManager.com

You can thank Marc Andreessen , the American entrepreneur, investor and software engineer, for the hyphenated phrase. That’s the first step of smart product development. Related: The Importance of Customer Development for Startups. Back to Olsen, who has created a process to establish a product-market fit.

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How To Carry Out a Requirements Analysis

Wrike

You gather project requirements and put together a team of developers, product managers, and creatives. It turns out that your team had been so focused on satisfying every project requirement gathered from project sponsors that they ignored one crucial user requirement for software projects: keep it simple!

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Histogram as a Component of Seven Basic Quality Tool

iZenBridge

Having been in the project management, training and coaching for over last many years, I witnessed that- The histogram is one of the powerful Quality planning and control tool to understand preventive and corrective actions. An IT test team member is evaluating work products from specifications to detect problems. Pareto Chart.

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If you are not doing Test First then you are doing it wrong!

Scrum.org

Many teams are struggling with delivering modern software because they are not building with Test First Principals. A common form of Test First is Test Driven Development (TDD) and we can use it to meet more of our customer’s expectations, minimise our maintenance costs, and get fewer regressions and bugs in production.

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Project Management Maturity Models: A Basis for Reaching Your Organization’s Business Success

Epicflow Blog

The main purpose of determining project management maturity is to assess the actual state of the project management process in an organization as well as detect areas and direction for its improvement. . Assessment presents methods, processes, and procedures that a company can use to self-assess its maturity. .