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7 Ways Project Manager Roles Are Changing

ProjectManager.com

The days of technical, scope, scheduling, budgeting, assigning resources and delivering deliverables on time have evolved to include soft skills such as conflict resolution, leadership, and even trends towards more business management skills such as business modeling and strategic analysis. What do you do?

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Emerging Trends & Challenges in Information Technology

ProjectManager.com

Let’s examine the emerging information technology trends and challenges as well as the modern IT project management solutions designed to overcome them. The best IT teams often operate efficiently in the background as they create and automate tasks for smooth business operations. What Is the Role of Information Technology?

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7 warning signs that you (and your team) are overworked

Planio

When you and your team get overworked, your productivity — along with your mental and physical health — decline. In the worst case scenarios, overwork can cause teams to collapse, projects to fail, and individuals to go looking for better work environments. Teams aren’t replacing employees who leave. You get distracted easily 4.

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Winning Estimation Tactics for Agile Teams: From Calibration to Confidence

Scrum.org

Estimates are notoriously bad. In the world of agile development, inaccurate estimates can lead to missed deadlines, blown budgets, and frustrated teams. Human biases, lack of historical data, and the complex nature of software development add layers of difficulty. But why is estimation so challenging?

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Agile Metrics — The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Scrum.org

Suitable agile metrics reflect either a team’s progress in becoming agile or your organization’s progress in becoming a learning organization. At the team level, qualitative agile metrics often work better than quantitative metrics. A team may have deliberately built some temporary solutions to speed up experimentation.

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What’s the Profile of a Good Project Manager?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Because of this, Systemation became intimately aware of the project managers’ strengths and weaknesses in performance and was able to reflect back on the assessment results and draw specific conclusions. If the score was low, they tended to be seen as emotionally volatile and not safe for their team members to get behind and follow.

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29 Agile Methodology Statistics and Trends for 2022

TrustRadius Project Management

Agile development is a relatively young workflow methodology. At the start of the millennium, software devs pioneered the development of agile, and here we are. We also examined the most important trends, exploring the attributes that make agile poised to succeed in the future. Agile Development Explosion in Popularity.

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