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The Toptal Projects Blog is a focal point for learning about the current best practices, tricks of the trade, and state of knowledge in Project Management and Agile leadership. These publications are brought to you by the professional project managers and agile professionals in the Toptal network.

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Project Management Cheat Sheet

There is no perfect framework that can be applied universally. Project managers should tailor processes to work best with their teams and develop skills that will serve them well throughout their career.

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Adi Behlulovic

Adi Behlulovic

Adi is a project manager who is driven by the passion to build great products.

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 an international digital transformation thought leader, strategist, and implementer.

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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.

Using Pretotypes to Support a Business Case

Concept pretotypes facilitate the creation of small-scale tests to verify basic assumptions about a project business case. Pretotyping can save hours of work during implementation and determine the success of a project.

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Paul Morris

Paul Morris

Paul has spent the past 10 years designing digital product concepts for Australia’s largest banking institutions and government agencies.

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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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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