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Project Gates: The Janus-like Guardians of Product Development

MPUG

One might conclude that agile approaches to project management, such as Scrum, mean there is no need for gate reviews. We say the same thing if one adopts gate reviews for every product development project. Let’s explore a typical product development project’s phases, goals, and metrics reviewed at each gate.

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The 23 Best Project Management Books For Upgrading Your Career in 2020

Planio

Swipe to Unlock: The Primer on Technology and Business Strategy. Technical documentation. These books range from technical guides to quick catch-ups on the core principles of project management, from how to gather requirements and plan your timeline to communicating and inspiring your team. Author: Harvard Business Review.

2020 148
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Agile & Project PPM: The Better Together Story

MPUG

This is the continuing and evolving story of Agile and Microsoft’s technologies. That is, its allowance for complex or highly interactive reviews and working iterations with stakeholders and project teams that produce a better product or result. Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design. Understanding Agile.

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Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Leading to Failure

Scrum.org

Example : The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (just between you and me) from August 2nd, 2006.). This is the wrong mental model: the earlier developers participate in identifying a problem worth solving, the better the ROI on their engagement will become as they will bring the technical expertise on the feasibility to the table.

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The Best Time Tracking Software of 2018

Paymo App

Improve time estimates: You can use p reviously tracked time entries as the main indicator for your future projects. Through them, you’ll make better estimates for following tasks and set more accurate deadlines for similar projects. Harvest – a time tracking and invoicing tool to ease project delivery and billing.

2018 75
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An In-Depth Look at the Top 8 Modern Project Management Tools

Paymo App

The tools that made the shortlist are, in no particular order (click on each one to jump directly to the review): Basecamp. Reviews: Read what other people say about the tools. Look for reviews on independent platforms like Capterra and G2Crowd. These were the main factors we took into account when reviewing the products.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

When we hear about software development disasters and then hear that estimates are to blame, and NOT Estimating will somehow reduce or prevent these disasters, think again. Research clearly shows the root causes of most software projects cost and schedule overruns and technical shortfalls comes from poor risk management.