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How to Cash In on Project Opportunities

Project Risk Coach

Let's increase our chance of success by seizing project opportunities too. 4 How to Get Started 5 Tools for Identifying Opportunities 6 Think Outside the Box 7 Where Will You Capture Opportunities? When planning for your projects, define the term risk and determine how you will identify and manage both threats and opportunities.

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Software Project Management: Why It’s Different

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Every project is different, of course, but the differences when managing software development projects are especially so, due to its distinct life-cycle processes. What Is Software Project Management? Both of these overlapping processes must be managed for successful software development.

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Project Management Basics: Definitions, Methods and Tools

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Now that we’ve determined what a project is, we can define project management as a discipline. What Is Project Management? Project management is a discipline that consists in using project management methodologies, tools and techniques to manage the project life cycle, which is a set of stages that are common to every project.

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How to Create a Project Execution Plan (PEP) – Free Template Included

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That should be obvious from the name, but it also addresses the project scheduling, monitoring and controlling needed to bring the project deliverables. The document outlines all parts of the project execution and shows how to manage them. A list of any relevant reports, products, services or new software developments.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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The scrum methodology has been around since the mid-1980s and has been a core sub-methodology of agile since 2001 when Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle wrote the book on it: Agile Software Development with Scrum. Scrum allows you to create flexible project plans that can be adjusted at any point without impacting your project or budget.

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Software Development Life Cycle and Project Management

PM Basics

Software Development Life Cycle is on every job description for a Project Manager. Everyone wants you to know how to develop software applications. But there is a real problem here: With so many different frameworks and project management approaches, life cycles are so confusing.

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How to be a Superhero Project Manager

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Make sure you understand the main requirements of the project and communicate when you may need to cut corners before you do so. Regular check-in’s with stakeholders through the project life cycle to ensure alignment is key to achieving that superhero status.