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Industry, Product, and Technical Knowledge: What Makes a Project Manager an Expert?

Epicflow Blog

Needless to say that solid knowledge in the theory of project management and familiarity with PM software are the foundation of professional success. And in this publication, we discuss the role of industry, product, and technical knowledge in the work of a project manager. . Do Project Managers Have to Possess Technical Knowledge?

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Useless Agile Metrics

Scrum.org

Learn more about useless agile metrics, from individual velocity to estimation accuracy to utilization rates. ? Comparing velocities may lead to unhealthy competition and encourage teams to inflate estimates, also known as cooking the agile books. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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2021 Online & On-Site Events for Project Managers

Epicflow Blog

Pricing: free for ARC Advisory Service Clients, Digital Transformation Council (DTC) members, Technology End Users, Speakers, Panelists, and Sponsors; 595 USD for others. Read more: Is Your Organization Mature Enough for Digital Transformation? Pricing: starting from 250 EUR. Pricing: starting from 100 EUR. Pricing: available upon request.

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Student Syndrome in Project Management: Real Constraint or Just Human Factor?

Epicflow Blog

Countless lectures, seminars, home tasks, projects, etc. But the students estimated the task and asked the professor to give them extra time to accomplish it. The left line is an assigned date, and the second one is a due date. As a rule, the buffer duration is 50% of the extra time taken from every task estimate. .

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

Microeconomics is applicable to the development is software systems. If we look at the discipline of software engineering, we see that the microeconomics branch of economics deals more with the types of decisions we need to make as software engineers or managers. Software engineering economics." Macroeconomics is not. .

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. requires making estimates) ? IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. reducible and irreducible ?

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Decision Analysis - Ordinal and Cardinal Measures

Herding Cats

When we hear of the difficulties of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty, especially about software features and capabilities, there are straightforward ways to solve this problem. In our agile software development world, AHP is rarely found. I came to AHP through a seminar by Dr. James T.