Fri.Jul 26, 2019

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Grand strategy -- an illusion?

Musings on Project Management

Every enterprise engages in strategy. It's a matter of routine to some: Driven by the calendar, it's now time to do the "strategic plan". To others, it's another name for how to engage with risk -- a risk might be a tactical failure, but at the same time, it could be a strategic success: The other guy won today, but he killed himself doing it.

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Being Nice Isn't Always Nice

Scrum.org

I recently performed an organizational agile assessment and learned a great deal about how they served their customer’s technology needs. We investigated their technical practices, processes to develop and release, but also dug deep into how the people worked together from the people side of things. What we discovered was fascinating. Everyone in the technology group was described as being “so nice and pleasant”.

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Improving Schedule Beta and API throughput

Resource Guru

The Data Must Flow! As we move forward with ironing out all the details necessary to make Schedule Beta ready for primetime, we have made great improvements to the responsiveness of the frontend, which meant that the API response times were slowly becoming the bottleneck. To address this problem systematically, we’ve been monitoring critical paths for indications on what are the biggest bottlenecks in our system.

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The Journey Of ISRO. How Despite Having Humble Beginnings? and Limited Resources, You Can Reach For The Stars

Celoxis

The launch of India’s second moon mission Chandrayaan 2, which will map the south pole of the moon, has made it clear that India is a major player when it comes to frugal and cost-effective space exploration missions.

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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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What is Agile Project Management Software and How it Works?

ProProfs Project Management

If I ask you, what are the key problems you face as a project manager, what will your answer be? Inefficient team collaboration? Budget overruns? Inability to meet project deadlines? Tracking exactly where the project stands? …the list goes on, doesn’t it? With so many things that can go wrong in a project, it is essential to know the perfect solution that can help you streamline workflow and team communication alongside monitor and improve team performance too.