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

nTask

At the same time, if that company does not have a managerial process regardless of a qualified project manager on board, the software is just what it is… a mere tool. From time to time, I also partake in software development and QA campaigns. They said, “Jira sucks.” Let’s call them Jake and Amir!

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How to Control Project Scope and Avoid Scope Creep

PM Basics

I’ve been managing software development projects for more than 11 years. 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.

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How to identify stakeholders? (+Identification Cheatsheet)

PM Basics

Identifying stakeholders can be seen as an inside-out process. It will help you kick start the identification process. You can now think about ways to negate the potential threat they bring, perhaps by contracting the lunch preparation work to them instead. What Are The Processes In Identifying Stakeholders?

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Creating the Conditions for High-Performance Development Teams

Leading Agile

Solid technical practices and your full-stack developer’s software craftsmanship are also limited by the conditions inside your organization. A couple weeks ago we did a recording session with Chris Beale, who is one of our most senior executive consultants, runs a lot of our large enterprise class engagements.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Project Risk Management: A Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process and Decision Tree Approach,” Prasanta Kumar Dey, Cost Engineering , Vol. Project risk management: lessons learned from software development environment,” Young Hoon Kwak and Jim Stoddard,” Technovation , 24(11), pp.