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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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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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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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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.

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

nTask

I also knew a guy who thought that Jira “sucked” because some of the reviews were very negative. I am not talking about the past negative perception about JIRA – those times are long gone. 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.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993.