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We Learn More From Failure Than Success: Lessons from the Kobayashi Maru

LiquidPlanner

We have many words to describe a project in trouble—from “things have gone sideways” or “off-the-rails” to more graphic descriptions like “crash and burn.” The military has been a source of some lovely descriptions like FUBAR and SNAFU. The reason we have so many terms for projects not meeting the stakeholders’ expectations is because it happens so often.

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5 Project Management Goals to Boost Your Career

ProjectManager.com

Presently, the economic climate is ideal for both project managers who are looking to advance in their careers, and for those who have their sights on entering the field. There are great opportunities out there, and room for advancement. However, these opportunities won’t just fall in your lap. Enabling career growth can be considered a project of sorts, and therefore requires the same techniques, project management tools and dedication to schedules that would be involved when managing any

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22 Best WorkflowMax Alternatives for Project Management

Scoro

WORKFLOWMAX is well-known, Xero-owned project management software. It offers a variety of useful features such as time tracking, quoting, invoicing, but it is lacking project management features that most small businesses need: expense tracking, recurring invoices, task collaboration, etc. According to customer reviews, WorkflowMax’s user interface is also not that easy to operate.

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What are the Technical Skill of a Software Development Project Manager?

PM Basics

“I do not have the technical skill to become a software development project manager.” I hear this all the time. However, here is a catch. No one expects you, as a project manager, to write code or set up servers. You do need to know the software development process, what goes into creating software applications. So, in fact, you don’t need to have skills.

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

Understanding digital debt is crucial before digital transformation. Assemble a team to assess internal operations, market pressures, and digital debt's impact. Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance.

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Scrum Recordings in English (so far)

Gunther Verheyen

During the summer of 2017, I took some time to work with the professionals of HigherView to create a couple of recordings on topics related to Scrum that I deeply care about. As I am considering ideas for new recordings, enjoy them here in one place (or look them, and other recordings, up at my YouTube channel ): Scrum, a simple framework for complex product delivery.

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What Is Resource Allocation in Project Management?

TimeCamp

Resource Allocation in Project Management Project management is a very wide area of work, particularly.

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

We tend to seek easy, single-factor explanations of success. For most important things, however, success requires avoiding the many separate causes of failure – Jared Diamond. In order to avoid the causes of failure, we need to look into the future at the uncertainties that create risk, which when unmitigated, become sources of failure. The processes that deal with uncertainties, resulting risks is Risk Management. .

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