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Technical Debt: What Is It & How Do I Avoid It?

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This is often due to the various forces at play that impact decision-making, like those related to the project budget, schedule or resources. There’s a term to explain this idea: technical debt. If you’re about to embark on a new project, take a moment to read about what technical debt is and why you’ll want to avoid it at all costs.

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11 Project management skills employers expect you to have

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Your thoughts turn to what you should be doing for your professional development in the months ahead… and there’s a lot of choice. I don’t have the time (or the requirement) to take a certification course, but I’m always prepared to develop the project management competencies I need to succeed.

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Product Planning Fundamentals: Develop a Product Plan in 6 Steps

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While the technical theory of product planning may interest some, we’ve found it more helpful to use an action-oriented method, which we will outline below. You have just developed a product that could potentially be monetized and sold to marketing agencies around the world. Then, assign each task out to the team with due dates.

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4 Free & Open-Source Microsoft Project Alternatives: Ranked

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No wonder project teams look for open-source Microsoft Project alternatives. Sometimes a consumer gets what they paid for, which is why we’ll also review a commercial Microsoft Project alternative and see how it stands up against Microsoft Project open source alternatives. Microsoft Project has its critics.

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

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Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. 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”.

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Balancing Operational Excellence with Innovation

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The push to deliver more features to users often means we take short cuts, take on tech debt and reduce time spent maintaining the system. Some teams even use their BAU workload as a reason that they can’t go agile? They were essentially “Run” teams building and tweaking stuff. Essentially, product development had stalled.

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How to Make a Prototype: Product Prototyping Basics

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Ideas are essential to product development, but they’re intangible. These mockups can help further the design, materialize your product vision and get feedback from the engineering team. It’s through these exercises that design and engineering departments communicate and develop the idea into a working product.