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11 Project management skills employers expect you to have

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Plus, there are technical skills we have to consider -- employers definitely look for those too. One in five projects is unsuccessful due to ineffective communication, according to research by PMI (The Essential Role of Communications, 2013). I think the area will grow in importance over the coming 10 years.

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

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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”. This post is ideal for developers with some experience, and for people who support developers in the development of their technical skills.

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9 Essential Project Management Competencies

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). Technical competencies. Effective communication is top of my list because it’s core to what we are trying to do as project managers: effect change.

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7 Must Read Books on Stakeholder Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Patrick Mayfield, Elbereth Publishing, 2013. A well-researched book for prompting thinking about how we communicate with a focus on how to simplify communication and make the best use of technology. Elizabeth Harrin, BCS Publishing, 2013. Here are some of the best. The Project Manager’s Little Book of Cheats.

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Dependency Management – the Good, the Bad, the Ugly

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Sutherland, Scrum Guide, 2013. Scrum Master or Tech Manager. No-one knows better than the development team the art of the possible when it comes to using technology to solve problems. Are there multiple levels of review? The team model in Scrum is designed to optimize flexibility, creativity, and productivity.” - K.

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Test First approach sounds simply enough, right?

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This can be the first confusion in its understanding and actual meaning today, for either technical or non-technical folk. Then we have all these practices you hear about residing under this Test First banner - TDD, BDD, and ATDD. Test Driven Development (TDD). But let us leave that for another day. Add a test.

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

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Van Waardenburg & Van Vliet (2013) offer a case study in a large organization and conclude that “The Project Manager focuses on the ’how’ of a project, the Product Owner focuses on the ’what’”. This includes training, technical support, and preparation for new releases. Gatekeeper : Approving completed items for a release.

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