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Cargo Cult Agile — A Checklist to Open the Discussion

Scrum.org

If running the cargo cult agile survey is the ‘inspection,’ then consider adapting your approach to being agile by kicking-off a discussion among the stakeholders of your organization’s endeavor. What Is the Purpose of the Cargo Cult Agile Survey? Stakeholders bypass Product Owners by talking directly to developers or the CTO.

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Skills Of A CIO – Within Reach Of A Strategic PM?

The Strategic Project Manager

This post queries whether a Chief Information Officer (CIO) position might be a good and realistic goal for a project manager. We’ll come back to that later after surveying the landscape. Strategic Roles – Transition to strategic roles such as IT strategy consultant, business analyst, or enterprise architect.

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PM, CEM, and Covid-19: Reflections

MPUG

Here is what is so baffling especially now: all non-US contracts I’ve ever signed include a boiler-plate Force majeure clause, but those are clicked through faster than the legalese on a social media app, and this class of risk is rarely reflected in any of the planning exercises that these contracts pertain to. Have you taken it yet?

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Skills Of A CEO – Within Reach Of A Strategic PM?

The Strategic Project Manager

Project Management As a Stop on the Path to CEO In his HBR article, “The Leap from Project Manager to CEO Is Hard – But Not Impossible”, Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez provides and excellent survey of what PM skills might lead one to a CEO position. PM skills will help!

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Is JIRA a Counterproductive Project Management Software In Today’s Market?

nTask

In terms of their experiences with project management programs, we recently surveyed different IT and non IT industries from all over. As a result, when they send in a request to the IT team and the CTO to buy task management tools, a lot of wrong things happen. The daily business operations are headed by the CEO and the CTO.

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Generative AI and Project Management in 2024: Three Themes to Watch

MPUG

Our team at Envorso, a boutique consulting company comprised of West Coast software and Rust Belt manufacturing leaders from companies like Microsoft, Ford Motor Company, Meta, and Rivian, has been front and center for this massive transformation.

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Workplace Chat Is Killing Our Productivity

Scoro

Sean Jazayeri, the chief information officer of Avanade Inc , calls instant messaging “a godsend.” ” “I can find out if my CEO or CTO is online. For many offices, there is no turning back from the technology, because its use is exploding in the workplace. Workplace chat is growing rapidly.