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Eating your own dog food

Idea to Value

This is often referred to as “eating your own dog food” The origin of the term is disputed. In 2006, the editor of IEEE Software recounted that in the 1970s television advertisements for Alpo dog food, Lorne Greene pointed out that he fed Alpo to his own dogs. The good as well as the bad.

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Navigating the Challenges of Project Management: Essential Skills and Strategies

CMOE

Statistics show that 70% of projects fail to deliver desired results and 42% of organizations don’t even understand the importance of project management—but they also show that 73% of organizations that use a formal project-management approach always or often have met their goal. Here, we focus on five core skills.

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Project Management Communication Plan

Planview

A robust and realistic project management communication plan is essential for project success. This informative and easy-to-read article looks at basic concepts of a project management communication plan, and provides examples, strategies and best practices. There are several paths to project glory.

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Global Project Portfolio Management Software Report 2017-2021

Bubblegroup

Global project portfolio management software market report 2017-2021. Bubble joins Technavio’s list of prominent PPM software vendors. . Global project portfolio management software market report 2017-2021 . There’s a real benefit to focussing all your attention on your project and portfolio data.

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5 Factors Determining Success or Failure in the Shift From Project to Product

Planview

Five years ago, Planview CTA Mik Kersten outlined the “turning point” in his bestselling book, Project to Product: How to Thrive and Survive in the Age of Software with the Flow Framework. Figure 1: Where companies are today in their progression across the five project to product stages.

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Using a “budget pool” to reduce the cost of innovation

Idea to Value

This way, more projects can be tested at lower costs, with only the ones with validated potential getting further funding to continue. But how do you actually reduce the costs of the projects in the first place? However, innovation projects are almost impossible to plan in the same manner.

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Innovation Passion led me here

Paul Hobcraft

We are still struggling to solve these issues, machine by machine, process by process, incompatible software and hardware, piece by piece. There is no one “magic” reference point, simply one book to refer to, or certainly one visual that solves our needs. One that projects out in new, exciting, and different ways.