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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 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. The budget and scope remain on track, but there are risks to the project’s software development resources following a resignation.

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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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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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PM, CEM, and Covid-19: Reflections

MPUG

Personally, I never paid enough heed to Disaster Planning and Risk Management until after leaving the USA and becoming a PM nomad , but once I was out in the world, it became clear that I had to do much better. These examples; however, are not what we have going on today. Shout out to Nigeria.gov.ng I have to ask “Why not?”.

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

nTask

Take the example of a to-do list feature in any reputable project management software. At the same time, external stakeholders can be invited to that specific project board to monitor everything. 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.