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20 traits of highly effective project managers

CIO Business Intelligence

To thrive, project managers need to have and hone a complex combination of technical, business, and interpersonal skills. Effective project managers must know how to define the scope of a project , identify necessary resources, and schedule those resources — all part of the technical aspect of the job.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

What is a project manager? 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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The 10 highest-paying industries for IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

Every business unit has a stake in the IT services, apps, networks, hardware, and software needed to meet business goals and objectives, and many of them are hiring their own technologists. There’s a demand for skills such as cybersecurity, cloud, IT project management, UX/UI design, change management, and business analysis.

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What is a Scrum master? A key role for project success

CIO Business Intelligence

Scrum is a powerful framework for implementing agile processes in software development and other projects. This highly adopted framework utilizes short iterations of work, called sprints, and daily meetings, called scrums, to tackle discrete portions of a project in succession until the project is complete. Others do not.

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Enterprise Agile Development - Why you still need Project Managers.

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 Enterprise Agile Development - Why you still need Project Managers. Thursday, March 26, 2009.

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US IT jobs growth slowed in February

CIO Business Intelligence

Among the roles for which employers are struggling to find skilled staff, CompTIA highlighted software developers, software engineers, IT support specialists, IT project managers, network engineers and architects, and systems engineers and architects. Higher pay needed.

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State of Digital Product Management 2022: Five Takeaways

CIO Business Intelligence

Sponsored by Broadcom Software and conducted by Dimensional Research, the survey gathered insights from more than 300 IT and business executives. The move from projects to products is under way. All companies are now software companies, which means leaders have to rethink how they run their business.

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