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

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Sometimes you have to deviate from your initial plan and take a shortcut. 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. What Is Technical Debt? Types of Technical Debt.

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7 Ways Project Manager Roles Are Changing

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In Review: 7 Ways Project Manager Roles Are Changing As Jennifer said, project manager roles are changing. Plus, clearer performance tracking improves transparency and accountability for both team members and stakeholders. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you how your role is evolving. Here’s a shot of the whiteboard for your reference!

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Develop Better High Performing Teams

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As we ease into the new year, many organizations’ executive teams are ramping up hiring for new talent. They’re refocusing their efforts to align portfolios to finish strong for the fiscal year and are launching new initiatives to support strategic plans for the calendar year. What Is a High Performing Team?

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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. Non-technical competencies.

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What Is Change Control in Project Management?

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Sometimes stakeholders want something different from what they had requested during initiation. Teams get sick. Change is an opportunity for your team to work together to figure out how to respond to the change request. But the more you engage your team in change control, the more adept they become at solving problems quickly.

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How to Recover A Troubled Program

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There’s only one thing worse than being told bad news, and that is being told about bad news late. Technical failure: this creates a program integration risk as what you are building might not sit in the organization’s architecture any longer. Using an outside assessment team creates objectivity.

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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. Sometimes, project managers create a risk breakdown structure during project initiation to see if the work is even viable. Technical: Scope, requirements and other technical issues call into this category.

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