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Project management: Tips, tools, best practices

CIO Business Intelligence

Scope management: Define scope, create work breakdown structure (WBS), gather requirements. Time management: Plan and develop schedules and activities, estimate resources and timelines. Costs management: Estimate costs, determine budgets. Quality management: Identify quality requirements. Budget for surprises.

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What is a project manager? The lead role for project success

CIO Business Intelligence

Project managers play the lead role in planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing out projects. They are accountable for the entire project scope , the project team and resources, the project budget, and the success or failure of the project.

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(Lack of) Patch Management Highlighted in US Congress

Cloud Musings

According to the former Equifax CEO’s testimony to Congress , one of the primary causes of this now infamous data breach was the company’s failure to patch a critical vulnerability in the open source Apache Struts Web application framework. 1] Would you like to appear at the next Congressional hearing on patch management?