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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

The community largely accepted Agile and Waterfall as mutually exclusive project management paradigms. Critics of Waterfall believed that the world for a phase-gated and static project management style no longer exists. So, what is the Waterfall methodology for project management?

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Generative AI and Project Management in 2024: Three Themes to Watch

MPUG

Increasingly, all enterprises are becoming software-led, which is changing the traditional project management lifecycle into the continuous iterative loop that modern software teams have employed for decades. In our experience, there are a few key themes to watch in 2024 as generative AI impacts Project Management : 1.

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What is a technical project manager? (And why you should think about becoming one)

Planio

As products become more complex, technical project managers have quickly become the holy grail for growing businesses. Technical project managers (TPM) bridge the gap between understanding what’s technically possible in a project and managing the resources, timelines, and expectations to get it done. First, learn the basics.

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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. If at the start of the project you are trying to manage a bunch of people who do not have the mindset to deliver to time, cost, scope, etc.

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Estimating Accuracy Mathematics

Herding Cats

In the estimating business, like many things in project management, there is confusion about principles, practices, and processes. Software Engineering Metrics and Models. And download the paper that followed " A Software Metrics Survey. And download the paper that followed " A Software Metrics Survey.

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Resources for Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

The planned uncertainty not only needs to decrease over time passing, but this reduction diminishes any impacts of risk on the decision-making processes. Seems there is still some confusion (intentional or accidental) about the Cone of Uncertainty and its purpose and its use in software development.

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