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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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Five reasons why Scrum is not helping in getting twice the work done in half the time

Scrum.org

They got the idea of increasing the complexity of dependency management and longer lead time due to the handoffs having individual accountability. Do you measure estimated time for a task vs. actual time spent? Bad technical practices. They got training on Scrum, understood concepts, and formed teams, but struggle to commit.

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Raising Climate Awareness in Scrum Teams - a Scrum Master’s Journey

Scrum.org

I dove into sustainable IT and started with a ‘Planet Earth Retrospective’ for my Scrum Team, where we reviewed the Principles of Green Engineering. During that session, the team estimated that optimizing our landscape and decommissioning legacy components could reduce our footprint by a significant percentage!

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Agile project management- A tutorial

Binfire

The Agile project management methodology has been used by software engineers and IT professionals for the past sixteen years. In the late twenty century, many software engineering researchers in academia were studying the disturbing fact that most software and IT projects finish late or fail to finish at all.

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Generative AI and Project Management in 2024: Three Themes to Watch

MPUG

This data includes emails, text messages, IM conversations, call center logs, customer feedback, user interview transcripts, blogs, videos, product reviews, replies in questionnaires, product requirements, status reports, risk assessments, dependency maps, and the countless meetings we all have throughout the year.

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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

Herding Cats

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.

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Agile project management- A tutorial

Binfire

Until recently some academics and Project Management Institute (PMI) considered Agile method not a serious contender in project management due to the fact that is very hard to set a due date for project’s competition in Agile method. Project Estimation. How do you come up with project estimation in Agile world?

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