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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.

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7 Hidden dangers of project management (Or why even well-planned projects sometimes fail)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

During a company integration program, customer service levels dropped by 25-50% because the team management focused their efforts on reorganizing and changing employees’ roles and responsibilities, all with “the best of intentions”. Consequently, the difference in corporate culture led to numerous issues causing anxiety among team members.

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Why do projects fail? (Includes examples!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here are some high-profile failed projects: Following an internal review, Multiplex, the Australian development company responsible for the reconstruction of the Wembley Stadium, became aware that costs for the project were escalating to the point that the company would make a loss of £750 million on the project. billion to £10.9

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The 5 Phases of the Construction Process (Templates Included)

ProjectManager.com

Project management software is used by construction project managers to plan, manage and track the project. ProjectManager is award-winning project management software that has powerful Gantt charts that break the project into five construction phases. A feasibility study is done to make sure the project is worth pursuing.

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Five reasons why Scrum is not helping in getting twice the work done in half the time

Scrum.org

It is not only because the book is good, but I felt connected with one of the case studies. I have listed the top 5 reasons that don’t allow the team to gain such productivity but feel free to suggest more. Scrum doesn’t help complete the product faster rather than how quickly a team can release a product.

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The unbreakable bond: How outstanding service = brand loyalty

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In addition, 89% of consumers moved to rivals after having a bad customer experience [ii]. User stories can help project teams put customer needs at the heart of what they build. Apply this in your projects Code software to add in customers’ names and default to their location. year on year [iii].

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Can you be agile if you release only once a year?

Scrum.org

( Japanese version・日本語版 ) When picturing an effective and truly agile product development team, one often imagines a software development team, pushing some software to production every day, maybe multiple times a day, ala Amazon. But most teams that try it find out that the benefits exceed the costs.

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