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What Is a Technical Project Manager? (Job Description Included)

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There are many different project managers, but today we’re interested in focusing on just one, the technical project manager. Are you interested in becoming a technical project manager or are you in the market to hire one? What Is a Technical Project Manager? What Is a Technical Project Manager? But that’s not all.

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Organizational Competencies: What They Are and How to Develop Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I worked in the IT team at my old job. We did a fair amount of off-the-shelf software deployments, and we frequently made the point that we were a healthcare company, not a software development firm. I would not have said we had software development as one of our core organizational competencies. Non-technical competencies.

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Wicked Problem Solving Course Review (PMI)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Welcome to my PMI Wicked Problem Solving review! In this independent review, I’ll share: Whether the course is really worth it (I think so) Why it’s good for experienced project and change management practitioners Who shouldn’t do the course? I had not heard of Tom before, but he is a tech pioneer, facilitator, and TED speaker.

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How to Recover A Troubled Program

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There’s only one thing worse than being told bad news, and that is being told about bad news late. Technical failure: this creates a program integration risk as what you are building might not sit in the organization’s architecture any longer. Using an outside assessment team creates objectivity.

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How to Make a Prototype: Product Prototyping Basics

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Ideas are essential to product development, but they’re intangible. Below, we’ll define what a prototype is, why it’s important to make a product prototype and explore how to make a prototype. These mockups can help further the design, materialize your product vision and get feedback from the engineering team.

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Develop Better High Performing Teams

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As we ease into the new year, many organizations’ executive teams are ramping up hiring for new talent. All these efforts require precise judgment to hire just-in-time talent, using data to make strategic project decisions at a portfolio, program and project level and launching new high performing teams.

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Product Planning Fundamentals: Develop a Product Plan in 6 Steps

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So, let’s break down product planning to show exactly how to do it yourself. How To Plan a Product in 6 Simple Steps. There have been a number of frameworks published over the years that explain how to do product planning, many of which are purely theoretical in their approach. How many employees do they have?