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Professional Services Industry Fundamentals

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Independent Professional Services These are services provided by external consultants or firms that operate independently of the client organization. Common independent professional services include consulting, legal, accounting, engineering, marketing, training and development services.

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Everything You Need to Know About Release Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Once everything looks good from a technical standpoint, the release manager could start working on preparing communications about the upcoming software change. The comms may come from the project team or a functional consultant, or via the minutes of the CAB, or another mechanism. Scheduling. The benefits of being a release manager.

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The 18 Most Influential People in Project Management

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Mr. Cohn is the founder of Layfayette, Colorado-based agile software company Mountain Goat Software that consults with major enterprise clients including Adobe, LinkedIn, Southwest Airlines, Google, Intuit and Oakley on their agile and Scrum practices. Bernardo Tirado. He also has over 4.8K engaged Twitter followers.

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5 Tips for Better Agile Release Planning

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If you’re working in software development, you know that the software development life cycle can often be frenetic. Product features and stakeholder requirements constantly change, and your initial product development plan might look very different as the project evolves. Product Features development.

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Top 15 Capacity Planning Tools for Your Business [2024]

Epicflow Blog

A capacity planning tool is software developed to assist organizations in allocating and managing their resources more effectively. The tool is tailored for professional services organizations (marketing, advertising, creative agencies, software, IT services, and management consulting sectors).

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Top 25 Project Management Influencers of 2025

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The following list represents a diverse cross-section of expertise, from seasoned consultants to pioneering academics. She has led projects at some of Canada’s largest technology companies and is the founder of CNS Project Consulting Inc. She is now a Miro expert and an advocate for the power of collaboration in project teams.

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How to Manage Project Scope Without Scope Creep (with examples)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Scope creep is the more common term but you might hear both, especially if you are working in software development. Example of scope creep in software development. Scope creep in software development occurs when more features are added after the original feature set has been agreed. What causes scope creep?