PM Basics

MAY 16, 2022

So, it’s time for you to become a software project manager? Below you’ll find a full guide on how to become a software PM. TL;DR: The steps to becoming a software project manager. Develop technical proficiency. Develop your interview skills. That’s an overall approach that will make you a software project manager.

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Planio

OCTOBER 14, 2020

As Steve Jobs famously put it, a small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players. Jump to a section: How to hire remote developers (and other teammates) in 10 steps. Step 1: Decide if it’s the right time to hire remote developers. But getting them to join your team is a skill on its own.

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Binfire

MARCH 13, 2017

Depending on organization’s structure, project management method used by the organization and the team’s experience the role of project manager varies widely from project to project. Is the product or service developed entirely in house or we will use outside contractors? How much it should cost?

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Wrike

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

You gather project requirements and put together a team of developers, product managers, and creatives. It turns out that your team had been so focused on satisfying every project requirement gathered from project sponsors that they ignored one crucial user requirement for software projects: keep it simple!

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Chakraborty and K.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

What is the optimal size of a team? Should teams be stable over at least several years, or is it a good idea they change at will? How should leadership interact with autonomous teams? Is scaling always a bad idea? Of all the impediments that a team faces, which is the one to focus on first?

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Teamweek

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Every recruiter worth their salt uses recruitment software tools to give them an edge while tailoring job posts down to the very last detail. Because with the right recruitment software, forget rolling up the hill when you can shoot for the stars ?. SeekOut : A candidate sourcing software for technical and expert-level positions.

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Planio

JUNE 8, 2022

According to the Project Management Institute’s Pulse of the Profession survey , 81% of top-performing companies prioritize the development of technical project management skills. Next, ask your team questions. If you can’t walk the walk with your development team, they’re going to reject your suggestions.

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PM Basics

JULY 1, 2020

For sure, the easiest way to become a software project manager is by getting a promotion inside an IT company. So, if you are just starting your career, I strongly recommend getting a job on an IT project in any other capacity like QA, Developer, DevOps, Business Analyst, or a Scrum Master. 10 to 15 people on the project team.

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Teamweek

JANUARY 20, 2023

Pre-employment skills testing is like giving your HR team a time machine. With an accurate picture of candidates’ skills — your team can avoid spending up to $16,999 in turnover costs with the wrong fit! Then they’ll only have a handful of relevant candidates to interview, saving the hiring team valuable time.

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LiquidPlanner

JULY 10, 2018

There’s an assumption that silos are a bad thing. For instance, in product development, the mechanical engineers don’t need to sit in on schematic reviews with the electrical engineers or code reviews with the software developers. If you search for “building silos”, you get about one-fifth as many.

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Teamweek

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Long-form interviews come after skill assessments and inform the final hiring decision. Phone screening interview questions focus on obtaining relevant information. HR teams should record every answer on standard templates. Mix questions about career development, personal qualities, technical skills, and role responsibilities.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 27, 2018

A multidisciplinary team of professors was assembled, headed by a theoretical physicist, and two weeks of intensive on-site investigation took place. The scholars then returned to the university, notebooks crammed with data, where the task of writing the report was left to the team leader. You probably spotted my error immediately.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ‒ Steve McConnell.

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Epicflow Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

OPM3 was developed by the experts of the Project Management Institute, so it’s considered as a standard for achieving organizational PM maturity. The Project Management Maturity Model developed by PM Solutions Consulting Company is a two-dimensional framework. Let’s examine some of them. . Let’s take a look at these levels. .

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

An unattended software delivery pipeline frees technical staff to spend more time on value-add activities rather than tediously performing repetitive tasks by hand, such as. They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. Building software.

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Epicflow Blog

MAY 14, 2019

We all dream of reaching maximum success with our teams and projects, even though project failure is common. Business drivers have to be translated into project drivers by a strong technical team, not management. Looking ahead while planning the project can help you develop a viable risk management strategy and eliminate constraints.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

This is simply good process development and management. This, of course, is simply poor process improvement and a fallacy since without the root cause the symptom cannot be fixed and will return. At a minimum, at the end of every week, a Scrum team assess physical percent complete at the end of the Sprint. Standish Number.

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Teamweek

MAY 25, 2023

Below, we’ll chat about the importance of resume screening software, why hiring managers should be signing up for new software asap, and how applicant tracking systems are the future of hiring. However, resume screening software can rely too heavily on matching keywords in resumes and job descriptions.

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. By education and training, I’m actually a software developer. I got junior software engineers, software engineers, senior software engineers.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 18, 2018

I remember joining a team in the late 1970s that supported an application used worldwide by a large corporation. The team resolved to drive that number down. Defensive programming consists of learning and using guidelines for software design and coding that tend to minimize the frequency and severity of problems in production.

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. Before listening to any conjecture that estimates aren't needed to make decisions in the presence of Uncertainty for software development, please read these books. What are we looking for? If not, walk away.

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Paymo App

JULY 16, 2018

Unfortunately, not having one is still common in practice for smaller teams in particular. Picture this: Your task list is forever growing, new team members are showing up every three weeks, and your client is always asking for last minute changes. How to plan a project from start to finish using project planning software.

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Teamweek

JULY 28, 2020

And yet, by my first week, I realized I could still explore my company, get to know my team, and publish valuable work on an election forecasting model. If your interests develop during the course of the internship, you should feel comfortable communicating this openly. Schedule informal coffee breaks with employees.

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Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

It has become increasingly important for individuals to take control of their career development. The Role of Career Mapping in Professional Development Career mapping plays a crucial role in professional development by providing individuals with a framework to make informed decisions about their career trajectories.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

This is simply good process development and business management. This, of course, is simply poor process improvement and a fallacy, since without the root cause the symptom cannot be fixed and will return. The notion of waterfall development on slide 9 as actually prohibited in our domain. Have you done a Root Cause Analysis?

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Risk Management is Project Management for Adults - Tim Lister.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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MPUG

MAY 18, 2022

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. Melanie here with team MPUG. He has 30 years as a new product development project management professional. Melanie: Hello.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

That would mine all the User Stories are standalone pieces of software. This makes no sense for any development project beyond a de minimis project. [50], [397] DSM relates entities with each other in ways schedules cannot, for example, the tasks that constitute a complete program. Actual software process flows contain loops.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

If, for example, a project manager believes a member of his or her team is a fast and effective worker, each time that team member works fast and effectively or is told by a colleague about the work that has been done fast and effectively, the project manager will consider his or her belief to be well-founded. What To Do Next?

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Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

That would mine all the User Stories are standalone pieces of software. This makes no sense for any development project beyond a de minimis project. [50], [397] DSM relates entities with each other in ways schedules cannot, for example, the tasks that constitute a complete program. Actual software process flows contain loops.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. We develop these reference classes using Agile Function Points. We use Vitech's Core.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. Rarely are software engineers working on science experiments.

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. I actually got my degree in software engineering and moved up into project management like a lot of us did back in the day. By education and training.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty is a framing assumption used to model the needed reduction in some parameter of interest in domains ranging from software development to hurricane forecasting. This is a common problem in low maturity development organizations. This extended post covers.

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MPUG

JULY 16, 2021

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. This is from the PMI, pulse of profession survey and it says that 47% of unsuccessful projects fail to meet original goals due to poor requirements. What is going on?

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