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Want to save time and improve consistency across projects? Then you need project management templates. A good set of project management templates will make your work easier and more efficient. This article shares 41 such template. Why Do You Need Project Management Templates? Think of the last project you had to manage. What documents did you have to create at launch?
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“ Software is eating the world ” claimed venture capitalist, Marc Andreessen in his 2011, New York Times article. Seven years on, the trend continues, and project managers are also on the menu. The next generation of project managers face new challenges but also new opportunities as organizations undergo a major transformation. Software is becoming omnipresent, it is embedded and integral to all industries.
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I am excited to be presenting at next week’s PMI-SAC Professional Development Conference on May 2 in Calgary. I am looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new people at this new format conference. My session “ Mining Bitcoins with Your InstantPot: Has Agile Popularity Gone Too Far ?” examines the hype, realities and use of agile approaches. Here is the presentation summary from the conference site: “The project world seems to have gone agile mad.
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