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11 Project management skills employers expect you to have

Rebel’s Guide to PM

One in five projects is unsuccessful due to ineffective communication, according to research by PMI (The Essential Role of Communications, 2013). Don't bother learning new project management tools If you want to improve your technical project management skills, I would not bother to learn a new software tool.

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On Technical Debt And Code Smells: Surprising insights from scientific studies

Scrum.org

Why is code quality so often an issue? Why do software teams?—?despite So I was pleasantly surprised when Carsten Grønbejrg Lützen pointed at a peer-reviewed academic paper by Michele Tufano and his colleagues (2015), called “When and Why Your Code Starts To Smell Bad”. Technical Debt and Code Smells.

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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

ProjectManager.com

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. Scrum is a simple project management framework that facilitates team collaboration on complex product and software development projects.

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Software Review: ProjectManager.com [2016]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I last reviewed ProjectManager.com in 2013. Time to revisit the software and see what has changed. The company have also made huge improvements with software integration and as well as being compatible with the Microsoft suite and Google Apps they have also introduced integrations via Zapier. General information.

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Software Review: iMindQ 4.1 Online and Windows [2016]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s going to be a useful addition to your set of project management software tools and you can get started for free with the web version to see if you like it. Full disclosure: I have not been paid for this review. Read my complete review of. Header Image credit: placeit.net. I weigh up the pros and cons of throwing away.

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A Project Team’s Guide to Data Conversion: Book Review & Interview with Dave Gordon

Project Bliss

When thinking of software projects, many things come to mind: requirements, writing or configuring code, testing, getting that new system implemented and perhaps getting off that old legacy system that’s outdated and no longer serves your needs. For more information, see my disclosure page. He explains that’s how the book started.

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15 Practical Tips to Improve Project Communication

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I color-code the date column too, with red, amber and green to show whether the delivery is on track, at risk or needing serious management attention. In Office 2013 and later, you’ll need to open the draft message first. Then keep them under review! It lists the milestones in one column, organised by project phase.