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Making Change Stick: How to Get Change Management Right

Change management is critical to project success. Studies report that about three-quarters of change efforts flop if they are not managed well. This guide to change management for project managers will help you get it right.

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Alan David Walker

Alan David Walker

Alan is a project manager and consultant who specializes in digital transformation for the insurance sector. He has advised CEOs and other C-suite executives at large international insurers and consultancies on change management, strategy, and implementation. Previous positions include vice president at Hitachi Consulting and partner roles at Unisys and EY.

An Introduction to Workarea Commerce Platform

The global eCommerce market has grown from $2.8 trillion to $3.5 trillion over the last year, and the projected growth remains at a staggering 18% per year. Workarea is positioning itself as a highly flexible and customizable offering for enterprise clients to satisfy the growing demand.

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Maxim Sterjanov

Maxim Sterjanov

Maxim is a professional Agile project manager, IT consultant, and team leader with 14 years of experience and a solid technical background.

A Complete List of Project Management Conferences 2020

The only project management conference list you will ever need. This list contains all the information you might need when picking a conference including insights about the conference, locations, and ticket prices.

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Vytas Butkus

Vytas Butkus

Vytas is a professional project and product manager leading products and projects in education, 3D graphics, eCommerce, and adtech.

Mission Driven Development

Growing organizations often find that Scrum is no longer enough but switching to SAFe is too complicated. Mission Driven Development utilizes the 6-week cycle and offers a lightweight approach to scaling Agile.

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Alvaro Villena

Alvaro Villena

A seasoned project manager, Alvaro focuses on the human and cultural dimensions of product development teams to improve their performance.

How Open-Loop Processes Disrupt Information Flow in Business

The essence of a good process is very similar to the manner in which SQL-based relational databases were designed to ensure transactional consistency. Learn how closing open-loop processes saved tens of millions of dollars for a pharma company.

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Allan Milne Lees

Allan Milne Lees

Allan has over 25 years of experience in financial services, pharma, cyber-security, telecommunications, mobile apps, and biotech.

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A Road to Better Agile Testing

The yearly World Quality Report created by Capgemini shows that 42% of survey respondents list a “lack of professional test expertise” as a challenge in applying testing to Agile development. While the advent of Agile has brought the increased speed of iterations for software development, in some cases this has come at the cost of quality.

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Vytas Butkus

Vytas Butkus

Vytas is a professional project and product manager leading products and projects in education, 3D graphics, eCommerce, and adtech.

What Is PMO? A Guide to Project Management Office

Ever wondered how to successfully improve the delivery of projects in your organization? Using PMO best practices, business can drive consistent delivery of projects in today’s competitive environment.

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Simone Theeboom

Simone Theeboom

Simone is a seasoned agile product manager boasting 15 years of experience delivering digital journeys that delight online customers.

5 Questions a Scrum Master Should Ask Before Joining a Startup

The scrum master role has been gaining popularity with the widespread adoption of Agile. Startups adopt Scrum at an ever earlier stage and look for professionals to help them out. There are some simple questions a scrum master candidate can ask to find the right startup company for their skill set.

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Vytas Butkus

Vytas Butkus

Vytas is a professional project and product manager leading products and projects in education, 3D graphics, eCommerce, and adtech.

5 False Hopes of Scrum and How to Fix Them

Scrum is easy to introduce but hard to master. Left to its own devices, Scrum creates false hopes and undercuts many of the expected benefits. Scrum teams need to continually improve their process and work culture to reap the rewards of an Agile transition.

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Matt Johnson

Matt Johnson

Matt was a cofounder of Mediaxstream and also an executive at a global telecom.

KPIs for Success: An Overview of Project Manager Performance Metrics

Develop a high-performing team by empowering the project manager. A software project manager is the cornerstone in a product life cycle. Explore the six key KPIs that will inspire incredible results.

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Laurie Harvey

Laurie Harvey

Laurie turns ideas into results. She creates multi-million-dollar businesses in secure network and cloud service delivery.

A Complete Guide on How to Seamlessly Take Over an Existing Project

As project managers, we are sometimes tasked with taking over a project in progress. In this guide, we will outline how to plan a project takeover and execute it flawlessly. Use the included project manager checklist for your upcoming projects.

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Luciano Castro

Luciano Castro

Luciano is a business-driven manager with over 15 years of experience as a CTO and CEO in multinational companies and startups.

Project Management Evolution: Startups vs. Enterprises

Startups play poker, large companies play chess. In this article, we compare and contrast project management for startups with enterprise project management. Different challenges and opportunities arise in both settings. The best project managers should be able to utilize their skill sets to achieve the maximum results in both environments.

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Vytas Butkus

Vytas Butkus

Vytas is a professional project and product manager leading products and projects in advertising technology, 3D graphics, and eCommerce.

Saving Product X: A Design Thinking Case Study

Have you ever wondered if you can apply design thinking principles with a limited time and budget? If so, check out this in-depth Design Thinking use case, which details how Design Thinking helped a company to save its product.

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Luciano Castro

Luciano Castro

Luciano is a business-driven manager with over 15 years of experience as a CTO and CEO in multinational companies and startups.

Toptal Project Management Expert

Marco De Stefano

Marco started out as a software developer but moved on to more suitable roles—scrum master and Agile project manager—which he’s been successfully occupying for over the past decade. His technical background and business-oriented mindset facilitate effective communication with development teams and with different business stakeholders. Recently in his latest projects, he also works as an Agile coach to foster scrum adoption.
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