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Product-Market Fit: What Is It & Why Is It Important?

ProjectManager.com

You can thank Marc Andreessen , the American entrepreneur, investor and software engineer, for the hyphenated phrase. Dan Olsen, an expert in product management and author of The Lean Product Playbook , has emphasized product-market fit as critical to the success of a start-up. Get detailed feedback by surveying the customers.

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Agile vs Waterfall: Embracing the Hybrid Project Revolution

NimbleWork

Over the years, the idea of operating a lean enterprise in a competitive and fast-paced business environment has led progressive organizations to adopt the Agile framework. Tesla adopts rigorous risk assessment mitigation strategies (inspired by Waterfall) while following a flexible Hybrid Agile project management framework.

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Top Solutions to Project Failure – Epicflow Research Part 2

Epicflow Blog

We’ve surveyed members of LinkedIn PM communities to find out what leads to project failure. Our survey participants suggested various effective ways to mitigate the causes of project failure. Perform Risk Management. Read more: How to Ensure Project Success: Risk Management Matters. Involve Your Stakeholders.

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements

MPUG

I actually got my degree in software engineering and moved up into project management like a lot of us did back in the day. Individual contributor team, lead section, lead project manager, program manager, director of engineering. Are we doing good change and risk management? All projects have risks.

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Webinar Recap: Want To Be A PMI-ACP? The Primary Steps to Take

MPUG

So you have master in Scrum, or master in Kanban or like a professional in Lean. After the exam is over, you will have a survey. Even the engineers, hardware engineer, software engineer, mechanical engineer. Now you’re thinking, how about mechanical engineer I just said.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

Monte Carlo Schedule Risk Analysis,” Intaver Institute, Inc. Effort Estimation of Use Cases for Incremental Large-Scale Software Development,” Pareastoo Mohagheghi, Bente Anda, and Reidat Conradi, Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering. 61, September 2004. Chakraborty and K.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

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. Software quality measurement,” Magne Jørgensen, Advances in Engineering Software 30 (1999) 907–912.