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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower - Project Management

Most innovators don’t have a technical background, so it’s hard to evaluate the truth of the situation. And unless they have a tech background, they can’t look under the hood themselves. The answer is to engage a trusted outside source for a Technical Review – a deep-dive assessment that provides a C-suite perspective.

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Agile Revolution in the Defense Industry

Scrum.org

These striking innovations, which look like toys, are the facade of a profound shift in the industrial paradigm based on speed of change, open-source, decentralization, and composability. How can Scrum principles be applied in the defense industry? Each new piece cost proportionally less than the previous one. The problem?

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The Partnership of Technology and People in Project Management

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Why the partnership of technology and people bring more than one benefit. As defined by Professor Leigh Thompson of the Kellogg School of Management, “a team is a group of people who are interdependent with respect to information, resources, knowledge and skills and who seek to combine their efforts to achieve a common goal.”

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Hiring a Professional Scrum Master

Scrum.org

That means that they need to have some level of knowledge of both the relevant business domain to help the Product Owner, as well as enough technical knowledge to help the Scrum Team. Are technical skills required to be a Scrum Master? The Scrum Master is accountable for establishing Scrum as defined in the Scrum Guide.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

Some of them work better on particular industries or projects, so you’ll need to learn about project management methodologies to decide which one works best for you. The term scrum was introduced in a “Harvard Business Review” article from 1986 by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka.

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Responsibilities and Best Practices of SaaS Product Manager

Proofhub

In today’s tech-driven world, Software as a Service (SaaS) is revolutionizing businesses across the globe. They are responsible for defining the product’s purpose and direction, ensuring it stays competitive in a rapidly changing landscape. Let’s delve deeper into the core responsibilities that define their role.

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Capital Budgeting: Definitions, Steps & Techniques

ProjectManager.com

First, we need to define capital budgeting, what a capital budget is and why it’s important. It’s used across industries and in small to large businesses. The time value of money is about the potential rate of return on the investment as well as the reduced purchasing power over time due to inflation.

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