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The Project Management Starter Guide: for Non-Project Managers

Workzone

Just because your business card doesn’t say, Project Manager, doesn’t mean you aren’t one. If you answered yes to any of the above, you’re a project manager —even if it’s not part of your job title. Congratulations, You’re a Project Manager! Congrats on your newfound title of Project Manager! Take this quick survey.

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Why do most projects fail?

Binfire

Harvard business review has written an interesting article titled why even good projects fail anyway. Forbes magazine also opined about the high rate of project failures recently. . is it due to lack of planning? The inexperience of the project managers? The inexperience of the project managers?

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The Urge to Strangle(The Strangler Pattern)

Leading Agile

Business agility means having the capability to “turn on a dime” at low cost and with low risk, to drive innovation, respond to market changes, and overcome the competition. In any enterprise that depends heavily on information systems, business agility is not possible without technical agility.

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The Relationship Between Culture and Performance

Leading Agile

And so we ended up with a lot of folks doing standups and sprint planning and story cards and sticky notes and burndown charts and reviews and retrospectives. I came out of project management, like I said, PMI ACP, all that kind of stuff. There’s managers and there’s hierarchy in that regard. So, with SAFe , right?

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80+ Awesome Online Resources for Project Managers

Wrike

Where can you go to talk Gantt charts, work breakdown structures, and Agile workflows to your heart’s content with other project management aficionados? There’s a treasure trove of valuable information available online for anyone looking to sharpen their project management skills. . Essentials of Project Management Series – PMI.

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The targeted hire: 7 benefits of a targeted recruitment strategy

Teamweek

This approach is useful when recruiting for roles that require a very specific background and skill set and tend to fit well with technical positions, such as a Laravel developer. With this type of hiring process, companies often lean on their employer brand to attract candidates. talent assessments to find the perfect skills match.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

One of our clients, a retired USAF Col Program Manager at an NNSA Weapons Testing Site has a statement that is applicable here: If you lack academic basis and validated experience, your advice is simply unsubstantiated opinion without any basis in fact or principle. Flint, School of Management, Working Paper Series, September 2005.”.