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5 Business Process Challenges For Project Managers
Management and ownership are different, but are these truly incompatible within a business process? Successful business owners and entrepreneurs have simply struggled for a continuous period of time, juggling with anything and everything from legal and accounting through sales and marketing, IT, operations, recruitment, branding, management, negotiations, to name A FEW. This isn’t necessarily a…
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How Remote Teams Work Together
Working with remote teams is all about mutual trust. It’s similar to assessing the security of your home, the reliability of your office job, or the viability of your relationship. It’s about creating an ecosystem where both parties can operate securely, reliably, and respectfully. Employers and employees must mutually invest in this ecosystem, recognizing that…
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How to Manage Difficult People in Your Team
One of the biggest problems new managers face is juggling team management with other responsibilities, especially when they have to manage difficult people. According to an analysis by the Center for Creative Leadership, about 68% of new managers struggle with this issue. In team management, managers mainly deal with managing difficult people and challenges involving…
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7 Reasons Why It is Difficult to Manage New Projects (Or Inherit an Old One)
What makes it so challenging to manage new projects effectively? As a project manager, you need to assess the culture, your role, your team, how problems escalate, what your responsibilities are and how to tackle edge cases (delays, problematic team members, running out of budget, handling scope creep, disagreeing with a client, etc.) Organizations that…
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Fighting the Scope Creep
Scope creep is the process of adding more and more features to a fixed-cost project at the end of the development process or during delivery. Long story short, the client expects more features, better UI, or additional services within the agreed quote, which is not expected and hasn’t been planned by the web development agency.…
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Strategies In Managing A Software Development Team
Prior to launching my own web development agencies over 10 years ago, I’ve jumped between the role of a senior developer and a manager multiple times – including leading and managing a software development team role. My first stunt in management was back in 2007. We were building a Java-based distributed software for a telecom…
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Effective Hiring Tips (For Startups And Growing Teams)
There are fast-paced startups where execution is mission-critical. Then, there are the startups relying on an ongoing and regular business model – think of manufacturing or an ongoing type of activity that could easily take 60–80 hours a week. The ideal team for an ongoing operations startup might look different from the passionate, equity-focused model. While…
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Top Challenges When Using Slack For Managing Projects And Clients
How do you make the most out of using Slack? If you have to be available for emergencies but want to skip all the noise and offtopic going on, what would you do? The Downsides Of Using Slack In Practice Even with per-channel notification options and plenty of channels, it’s easy to miss an important…