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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower - Project Management

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Can you provide specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, and what the system will do for them? Who are the customers?

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How to hire remote developers (with free remote job description template)

Planio

But while finding talented people isn’t hard–even when hiring remote employees–finding the right teammates for your company can be a battle. Jump to a section: How to hire remote developers (and other teammates) in 10 steps. Jump to a section: How to hire remote developers (and other teammates) in 10 steps.

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How to write an executive summary stakeholders will love

Planio

The recommendation Executive summary example #1: Project status update Executive summary example #2: Resource decision How to write a great executive summary for your next project 1. 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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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?”) One example I experienced around the value of Total Cost of Ownership. A prior CTO gave an excellent explanation of what it looks like to truly understand TCO. The TBM Taxonomy.

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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. You can no longer just post an ad and hire the first decent candidate that applies. You will need to adapt your hiring process in order to scale. Hiring process.

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Cargo Cult Agile — A Checklist to Open the Discussion

Scrum.org

But pretending to be able to practice “agile” by taking a shortcut, for example, by reading some books, has increasingly resulted in collateral damage to the agile community in general. A significant part of the developer community meanwhile seems to despise Scrum , for example. A steering committee defines the Product Backlog.

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How to Control Project Scope and Avoid Scope Creep

PM Basics

For example: Project owners want to add new features to the product. Example of Using Project Charter to Control Project Scope. So, for example, a project’s business case is to quickly fix several defects in our product and release a new version. Example of Avoiding Scope Creep. We are losing money right now!