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Why is it a project manager’s job to fix companies?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

At the roundtable discussion about project management in the collaborative age way back in 2012, the talk turned to how project managers could shape strategy. If I’m in software development, it’s how quickly I can deliver the next release and what new functionality I can put in it.

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Asana vs. ClickUp: In-Depth Comparison

ProjectManager.com

Certainly, Asana is simple to use and pleasing to the eyes, while ClickUp is similar to Asana, but with software development tools. Founded by Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein when they met as employees at Facebook, they started with a productivity tool called Tasks and left Facebook to launch Asana in 2012.

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The fourth Scrum Wave (shows that the journey is far from over)

Gunther Verheyen

As I described in my paper “ Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype ”, the Scrum process for software development was shaped throughout the 1990s and has kept its simplicity to date. The Agile movement took off in 2001 with the publication of the “ Manifesto for Agile Software Development ”.

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Project management tools comparison: 6 top providers

Inloox

If you want to continue using the software, you can have your account activated and all data from the test phase will be transferred and users can continue working seamlessly. monday.com monday.com (formerly dapulse) is a work management platform that was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Lack of Education is a Root Cause of Poor Agile Performance

Scrum.org

The first paper was a 2012 study on the tensions with remote (off-shoring) teams (Ramesh et al Ambidexterity in Agile Development ISR2012). It confirmed my preconception that regular education struggles to keep up with developments in our field. Even in institutions where they teach (software) development.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

Take for example the deployment of an ERP system, the installation, and startup of a process control system, the release of a suite of embedded software controllers for a car, aircraft, petrochemical plant. A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. 14, Special Issue, July 2012.

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In-Depth: Stable Or Fluid Teams? What Does The Science Say?

Scrum.org

Edmondson (2012) argues that dynamic teaming is important to share and encourage learning. This is also what inspired Edmondson (2012) in her academic work on “teaming”. They also tend to perform better (Evans & Dion, 2012), are better able to deal with stress and pressure (Salas, Driskell & Hughes, 1996). R., & Dion, K.