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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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Women in Project Management: Rachel Mata

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Today I’m interviewing Rachel Mata , Lead Project Manager at Edu-tech company Instructor Brandon. The innovation that your work as a project manager can bring to life. Never stop innovating. Innovative projects are constantly happening. Rachel, how did you get into project management? It came to me from nowhere.

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60 ChatGPT Prompts for Scrum Masters and Product Owners

Scrum.org

Explain the benefits and drawbacks of different estimation techniques. Suggest how to help the Scrum team balance technical debt and new feature development. Balance technical debt and new feature development based on: [Your work item list]. Compare [tech A] and [tech B]: performance, ease, scalability.

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The Agile Hangover

Scrum.org

Other parts of the organization looked from afar and were only involved when their department interfaced with the technology part of the organization. Many of the people in those departments looked bemused when they were told to start using terms like Sprint, Product Owner, Sprint Review, and Retrospective. That is a good thing, right?

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Agile Revolution in the Defense Industry

Scrum.org

These striking innovations, which look like toys, are the facade of a profound shift in the industrial paradigm based on speed of change, open-source, decentralization, and composability. Changing a traditional production tool is long and difficult, generating high costs, hindering innovation, and causing loss of economic opportunities.

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The Illusion of #Velocity ?

Scrum.org

Short-term Wins over Long-term Value : The focus on velocity could lead teams to prioritize work that will ‘score points’ now at the expense of activities that contribute to long-term success and value creation, such as refactoring or tackling technical debt.

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Mastering Project Estimation: Simplified Techniques for Reliable Scheduling

MPUG

The solution, of course, is estimating. There is a whole science to estimation, and it would be possible to go very deeply into this. But before we start, let’s tackle the Estimation Elephant in the Room…. The estimation techniques they use are a deliberate trade-off between speed and accuracy.