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How to write an executive summary stakeholders will love

Planio

According to some estimates , PMs spend 90% of their time communicating with team members, sponsors, and stakeholders. 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. Project managers are born communicators.

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Hiring Process for Growing Businesses

ActiveCollab

When you start to grow your business, you’re going to do a lot of hiring. Hiring will no longer be a rare activity you do once every 3 months. Instead, it will be a constant process of attracting new candidates, figuring out who’s the best, and keeping the talent pipeline full. Hiring process. Stage 1: Sourcing.

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How to Control Project Scope and Avoid Scope Creep

PM Basics

Control Scope is a set of processes and tools that help you to ensure the scope of work doesn’t change much compared with the initial project plan. Also, these processes help you to include changes that you agreed with the project owners. Imagine that a newly hired editor for this blog comes to you one day.

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Agency tech stack: 44 solutions to supercharge your teams

Resource Guru

Between personal preferences and processes, it will seem impossible to please everyone. 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?

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Scrum for Newbies: How to Use Scrum to Tame Chaos

Wrike

There was precious little time to create the inbound marketing content we were hired for. Scrum is a process whereby teams break down and accomplish large projects in chunks, allowing for iterations to improve the product progressively. a new website), but all that time in the middle is hard.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

requires making estimates) ? Project Risk Management: A Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process and Decision Tree Approach,” Prasanta Kumar Dey, Cost Engineering , Vol. Norton, The Systems Engineering Process Office, MITRE Corporation, 6 June 1999. Estimation of Long?Term Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ?

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

requires making estimates) ? Project Risk Management: A Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process and Decision Tree Approach,” Prasanta Kumar Dey, Cost Engineering , Vol. Norton, The Systems Engineering Process Office, MITRE Corporation, 6 June 1999. Estimation of Long?Term Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ?