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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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Enhanced due diligence in banking 

Productivity Land

Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), also known as Politically Exposed Person (PEP) screening, is a process that banks and other financial institutions must use to identify the risk associated with doing business with foreign individuals.

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The Partnership of Technology and People in Project Management

LiquidPlanner

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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Organizational Process Assets: What does that even mean?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OPAs and the PMP exam Let’s face it: I first came across the term OPA while reviewing PMP exam training material. Organizational Process Assets (OPAs) are the collective knowledge, experience, and information that an organization has accumulated over time. Don’t get me started on Enterprise Environmental Factors either.)

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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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What is a technical project manager? (And why you should think about becoming one)

Planio

As products become more complex, technical project managers have quickly become the holy grail for growing businesses. Technical project managers (TPM) bridge the gap between understanding what’s technically possible in a project and managing the resources, timelines, and expectations to get it done. First, learn the basics.

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Review Mastering Project Uncertainty

Henny Portman

It starts with explanations of the relationship between the standing organization and temporary organization and why the author uses systems thinking approach to model project uncertainty.