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How to write an executive summary stakeholders will love

Planio

The budget and scope remain on track, but there are risks to the project’s software development resources following a resignation. This risk is under management, and no action is required at this stage. 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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Is JIRA a Counterproductive Project Management Software In Today’s Market?

nTask

My point is that although project management tools are not completely important; they are definitely a means to an end. As a result, when they send in a request to the IT team and the CTO to buy task management tools, a lot of wrong things happen. The daily business operations are headed by the CEO and the CTO. Think about it.

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Creating the Conditions for High-Performance Development Teams

Leading Agile

Today, Mike Cottmeyer brings in our CTO and one of the main architects of our Studios offering to discuss the conditions that must be present for solid technical practices and software craftsmanship to thrive. Everything was big up front design, OA, OD, had to know everything up front, was risk proofing my software 10 years out.

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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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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. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs.

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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.

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

Planio

Let’s start with a simple definition to get us all on the same page: Scalability is your ability to efficiently scale resources up or down to meet demand. These might sound like serious risks. Scalability issues are often hiring, planning, resource management, and process issues in disguise. Scalability is often a hiring issue.