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How to write an executive summary stakeholders will love

Planio

This is further impacted by a talent shortage in the recruitment market, meaning a suitable replacement would take c.three months to hire on a permanent contract. This three-month lead time would delay the project’s timelines and cause a loss of approximately $42,000 in project benefits. permanent market value.

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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. And then I hired into this thing that I didn’t even know what they were doing. I questioned it and I could learn from it.

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Agency tech stack: 44 solutions to supercharge your teams

Resource Guru

Business strategy: Your tech stack should support your agency objectives and long-term growth plan. 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? Not ideal, right?

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

Planio

Be the source of truth for vision and product strategy. 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. Scalability issues are often hiring, planning, resource management, and process issues in disguise.

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Agile Unplugged: EP01 | Mike Cottmeyer and Brian Sondergaard

Leading Agile

And so, we were definitely in a position where we were having to put together constructs that allowed us to connect, legitimately connect, from, “here’s the strategic imperative” to, “here’s the hundreds of people “that are gonna be involved; how do we marry those up? You just went from director to CTO?

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Modified Optimization Model for Selecting Project Risk Response Strategies,” Ewa Marchwicka and Dorota Kuchta, Operations Research and Decisions , No.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Modified Optimization Model for Selecting Project Risk Response Strategies,” Ewa Marchwicka and Dorota Kuchta, Operations Research and Decisions , No. Book, Business Cases, and Acquisition Strategies, Ground Systems Architectures Workshop (GSAW 2002) , 13?15 Brian Derfer, CTO. Order Contract, C. 15 March 2002.