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Excavating the Work Breakdown Structure: Your Waterfall Project’s Rosetta Stone
Despite Agile’s popularity, Waterfall remains prevalent across industries. Rediscover one of its foundational tools, the WBS, and align your team with a common language to improve project delivery.
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Jim Stewart
Jim is a project expert and certified Agile coach with more than 25 years of experience consulting on and managing projects for companies including JPMorgan Chase and Fidelity Investments. He is a PMP and CAPM instructor and co-author of Great Meetings Build Great Teams: A Guide for Project Leaders and Agilists.
Traversing Hybrid Project Management: The Bridge Between Agile and Waterfall
A hybrid approach that bridges Agile’s adaptability and Waterfall’s predictability can be challenging to implement but beneficial for some projects. Toptal project experts share their notes from the field.
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Monica Zaleski
Monica is Lead Editor, Product and Projects, at Toptal and a former editor at the Project Management Institute. She worked in academic and business publishing for more than 15 years on book projects for the University of California Press, as well as on marketing communications projects for Microsoft, SAP, and Synnex. Monica also holds a doctorate in English.
Critical Chain Project Management: Agile’s Missing Link
When an Agile project has too little time and too few resources, an extra planning boost from the critical chain method can keep a project on the path to success.
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Costas Voliotis
Costas is a project and product management expert who specializes in sophisticated technology projects for highly competitive markets around the world. Costas holds a doctorate degree from the National Technical University of Athens and has held multiple C-suite positions during his 25-year career.
CapEx 101: Resolving the Agile vs. Waterfall Conflict With Hybrid Methodology
What do Agile, Waterfall, and the former energy corporation Enron have in common? A strange shared history that may shed light on one of the most well-known conflicts in software development.
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Adam Zachary Wasserman
Adam is a project manager and IT professional with 30 years of experience in all aspects of enterprise and startup software, from development to operations. He has worked for companies like Lincoln Financial Group, OpenText, and Bell Canada, and is the author of The Chaos Factory, a book on methods for improving and scaling enterprise app development.
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 is a professional Agile project manager, IT consultant, and team leader with 14 years of experience and a solid technical background.
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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 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 is a seasoned agile product manager boasting 15 years of experience delivering digital journeys that delight online customers.
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