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Professional Services Industry Fundamentals

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Professional services apply to a wide range of industries. The professional services industry is large and to better understand it, we define the term and provide examples of professional services firms. Finally, we demonstrate how upgrading to project management software adds efficiency to the process.

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Best Salesforce Project Management Tools

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It’s customizable, which adds to its flexibility and popularity as an industry-specific solution for financial services, healthcare providers, nonprofit organizations and manufacturers. Now that we understand the value of Salesforce, the next question is whether it has a project management tool or feature built-in to its software.

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Organizational Competencies: What They Are and How to Develop Them

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I worked in the IT team at my old job. We did a fair amount of off-the-shelf software deployments, and we frequently made the point that we were a healthcare company, not a software development firm. I would not have said we had software development as one of our core organizational competencies.

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Risk Breakdown Structure for Projects: A Complete Guide to RBS

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Either way, project managers have to prepare for risk, either good or bad—it can interfere with project objectives. More often, you’ll address it during the planning phase when you assign roles and responsibilities to your team members. Depending on the industry in which you’re working these categories can be a bit more fine-tuned.

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

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The concept of technical debt comes from software development where it refers to the costs of having to go back and resolve problems that arise because of an earlier decision to take the easy route, instead of the best one. That doesn’t mean that technical debt is all bad. What Is Technical Debt?

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Jira Kanban Board: Pros, Cons & Alternatives

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Jira is project management software designed for agile software development teams. It has tools that allow you to plan sprints, track the completion of tasks, balance your team member’s workload and create product roadmaps. Does Jira Have a Kanban Board? Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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The 4 Essential Agile Tools for Agile Teams

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Agile is a way of working that comes from software development. While the roots of incremental development methods of working stem back to the 1950s and into the 1970s, it wasn’t until 2001 that a group of software developers published the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.