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Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Project Management Strategies

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However, the downside is that details might be missed without a detailed review by the project team. Let’s say you’re responsible for upgrading your application’s hardware and software layers. These are all top-down tasks that can be assigned to a project team to implement. A top-down example.

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Building Business Resilience: Wrike Customers Have Power At Their Fingertips

Wrike

Work management software will be one of the critical elements that will help companies build business resilience. We recently undertook a ground-breaking study to determine just how much time, energy, and resources are being wasted by companies due to daily struggles that we know work management can help with.

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Embracing Uncertainty in Software Projects

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The reality is you’re only as good as your last project and achieving a project date given months in advance is based on leadership, a drive for results, successfully managing expectations and let’s face it—luck! In over 20 years of working in the software industry, the only thing I am certain about is uncertainty. Why Change?

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80+ Awesome Online Resources for Project Managers

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We’ve compiled a list of over 80 of the very best online resources for project managers, including online training sites, podcasts, ebooks, tools and templates, blogs, and more. . Downloadable Guides & Ebooks. Online Project Management Training Providers. Downloadable Guides & Ebooks.

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Software Estimating Resources

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This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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And when you hear estimates are a waste you'll realize that person must work in a de minimis project, where those paying have no need to know how much it will cost, when the project will be done, and what Capabilities they'll get for that time and money before the time and money runs outs.