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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. An executive summary is your secret weapon when it comes to project communication. Jump to a section: What is an executive summary? How is an executive summary different from other project documents?

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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?”) A prior CTO gave an excellent explanation of what it looks like to truly understand TCO. Over time it became used for only the executives in the company.

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Skills Of A CEO – Within Reach Of A Strategic PM?

The Strategic Project Manager

Strategic Vision and Planning – CEOs must have a clear strategic vision for the company’s future and the ability to develop and execute comprehensive plans to achieve long-term goals. It takes continuous development and refinement to develop these skills, which are essential for success in executive leadership.

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GanttPRO Review + Mini Tutorial

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You can create personal calendars for resources to allow for holiday time , or part-time. If you only want to provide a fixed moment in time view, tick the ‘snapshot’ box to share what the schedule looks like right now. Red means overloaded, blue is underloaded and green shows you resources are sufficiently allocated.

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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. So I have Chris Beale who is on my executive team. Video Transcript Mike Cottmeyer: Hey everybody. Mike Cottmeyer: Okay.

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

nTask

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. executives and everyone decided to give her a chance. Both the CEO and CTO regretted installing/ buying JIRA in the first place.

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How to Control Project Scope and Avoid Scope Creep

PM Basics

Then, a CTO of the company comes and requests that we have to add a technical feature to this release. Imagine that a newly hired editor for this blog comes to you one day. Third , if you are already in the project’s execution phase, it’s a change request. Users are complaining a lot and requesting refunds.