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How to write an executive summary stakeholders will love

Planio

Project managers are born communicators. According to some estimates , PMs spend 90% of their time communicating with team members, sponsors, and stakeholders. Why is it so important in project management? Define the objective of your executive summary 2. Why is it so important in project management?

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Agile Infrastructure Transformation and TBM

Leading Agile

My experience is that in a TBM implementation that is driven by a CTO or even a CIO in a defense mode (“Why are your costs so high?”) A prior CTO gave an excellent explanation of what it looks like to truly understand TCO. Over time it became used for only the executives in the company. Agile in Infrastructure.

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9 HR Challenges That Will Be Prevalent In The Digital Age

Proofhub

HR Challenges Introduction Human society is complex and managing people has always been a challenging task. Now, the digital age has added even more complexity to human resource management. By defining problems clearly, you make them easier to solve. or risk losing them to an extremely competitive talent market.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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Skills Of A CEO – Within Reach Of A Strategic PM?

The Strategic Project Manager

This post digs into this ambitious career objective, the required skills and attributes, strategy and project management as steppingstones to the CEO role, and attractive alternative career objectives. The role of a CEO is multifaceted, requiring a diverse skill set to effectively lead and manage an organization.

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

nTask

There are numerous complaints about project management software since the inception of the IT industry. Some of the complaints elicit the counter productivity factor of task management tools. I know that being an Agile project manager at nTask sounds like a bit of cliché’, but at the same time, I cannot help but think otherwise.

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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. Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ?