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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower - Project Management

It’s part of our job to ask questions about their plans, challenge their assumptions, and suggest paths to success. The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation. Think of these as the big upfront questions a developer should ask to get an overall picture. How will it be structured?

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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. Whether it’s a business case, project plan, or market analysis, an executive summary is a great way to get the project’s most important information across quickly and clearly. Keep this to a maximum of 4 sentences.

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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 we can get more lead time on the customer needs and shift more of the work to planned work.

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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. Scope creep is a change in the initially planned amount of work. 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. What is a Scope Creep?

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What does the Scrum Master do all day?

Scrum.org

We need you right now for facilitating a Sprint Planning for team Cheetah. The team is waiting there excited to start their first Sprint Planning as a new team. Sprint Planning continues …. After finishing the Sprint Planning for team Cheetah, Timmy the Product Owner for team Jaguar just ran to me. Time flew so fast. .

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20 Marketing Influencers You Should Follow on LinkedIn

Proofhub

Marketing, software development, and/or human resource?—?it Plan your marketing strategy with ProofHub. And the best part is?—?even If you’re a part of this industry, you’ve probably been in a situation where you seek an expert’s opinion before making an important business decision. Sign up now.”

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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. Everything was big up front design, OA, OD, had to know everything up front, was risk proofing my software 10 years out. Video Transcript Mike Cottmeyer: Hey everybody.