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Project management: Tips, tools, best practices

CIO Business Intelligence

What is project management? Project management is a business discipline that involves applying specific processes, knowledge, skills, techniques, and tools to successfully deliver outcomes that meet project goals. Project management steps Project management is broken down into five phases or life cycle.

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The future of project management and leading organizations to become agile

Trends in the Living Networks

This morning I gave the opening keynote at the Project Management Institute NZ Annual Conference on The Future of Project Management. You can see the slides to my presentation here. The shift to project leadership. The essence of the future of project management is the shift to true project leadership.

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Software project management challenges — and how to handle them

CIO Business Intelligence

One possible solution is to embrace the agile methodology of software development. Agile calls for collaboration among cross-functional teams as well as end users, and promotes adaptive planning, evolutionary development, continual improvement, flexibility in responding to changes in requirements and early delivery of products.

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Agile vs. Waterfall: Which Should A CIO Choose?

The Accidental Successful CIO

There is the classic method that has been used for over 40 years called “waterfall” Then there’s the new upstart in town that everyone seems to be flocking to called “agile” All of these options can place a CIO in a difficult place. These will, of course, result in additional project costs and time.

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Data science and project management methodologies: What you need to know

Dataconomy

One of the most significant challenges present in project management is the variety of ways that a project can be managed and handled. When contemporary businesses are increasingly driven by data, project managers must understand how the intersection between team members, data, and strategies can come together.

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Project manager interview questions: 5 key areas to prep for

CIO Business Intelligence

Good news: You’ve landed an interview for a project manager job. We spoke to a range of career specialists and coaches, along with folks who’ve supervised and hired project managers, to get insights into the sorts of questions you can expect at a PM job interview — and how you should prepare to answer them.

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Executive Presentations: Presenting Status vs. Strategy

Social, Agile and Transformation

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 The Executive Status Presentation.

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