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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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Project Management Statistics: 45 Stats You Can't Ignore

Workamajig

Businesses say that the biggest impact of project management was on team communication (52%). Poor communication (29%). Poor stakeholder-project manager alignment is a big cause of project failure. 17% of IT projects can go so bad that they can threaten the very existence of the company. Capterra ). KMart's massive $1.2B

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How to Make Collaboration in Remote Teams Easier

Binfire

Remote teams were seen as a fad some time ago but it’s quickly becoming popular in businesses today. It’s clear that remote teams will soon be an essential part of many businesses’ operational strategy as organizations look to cut costs as efficiently as possible. The Challenge of Collaboration in Remote Teams.

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Empower your Jira Environment with Advanced Project and Resource Management Capabilities

Epicflow Blog

Despite the fact that Jira has powerful task management and team collaboration functionality, there are neither resource management features nor prediction capabilities so far. This is a tool that assists in the efficient organization of tasks, workflows, and reports of Agile or any IT teams. Take a look at their brief overview.

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The art of unshipping: How to deprioritize features, phase out projects and sunset products

Planio

When you veer away from your product vision out of fear of upsetting users, your product is bound to become outdated, overly complicated, and bloated with technical debt. Unshipping is a term coined by the team at Mixpanel to describe removing a feature or product that is already live to users. Less pressure on your support team.

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The Job of a Resource Manager: Role and Responsibilities

Epicflow Blog

Resource managers are usually required in fast-growing companies or mid-sized and large organizations with distributed teams and an increasing number of projects. . Knowing all the current and upcoming projects run in an organization and business development activities and being able to plan resourcing accordingly. .

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Automotive Industry 2022: Overcoming Project Challenges

Epicflow Blog

Its current development is primarily driven by 4 major trends: connectivity, autonomous vehicles, shared mobility, and electrification. As the automotive industry continues its development affected by recent unprecedented disruption, the number of projects its companies take on this year will be increasing. Dealing with uncertainty.

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