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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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What Is a Technical Project Manager? (Job Description Included)

ProjectManager.com

There are many different project managers, but today we’re interested in focusing on just one, the technical project manager. Are you interested in becoming a technical project manager or are you in the market to hire one? What Is a Technical Project Manager? What Is a Technical Project Manager? Learn more.

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10 Project Meetings to Guide Your Project Management Team

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Project meetings often feel as if they’re in the way of your work. If you’re not working from an agenda or you don’t manage those meetings, that can be true. But meetings are critical for project planning and team collaboration. What Are Project Meetings? Types of Project Meetings. Learn more.

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Definition of Done: Business Agility Abhors Technical Shoddiness

Scrum.org

TL; DR: The Definition of Done: Business Agility & Technical Excellence Most of the time, stakeholders are not interested in how we solve their problems as long as we ethically play by the rules. If a Product Backlog item does not meet the Definition of Done, it cannot be released or even presented at the Sprint Review.

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Agile Project Management: Principles, Meetings, Values & Tools

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By using incremental steps towards completing a project, agile teams can easily adjust their project plan or product development plan to better meet their customer requirements. Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility. Teams work on the tasks that they decided on in a sprint planning meeting.

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Virtual Leadership [Book Review]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

So, in the normal style of my book reviews, let me tell you more about what’s in the book and what else I thought about it. Penny says that it’s important to define virtual work before you understand what virtual teams are. Virtual work is supported by communications technology that helps people to connect when far apart.

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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.