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How to involve the team and the customer in project risk management

If you want to learn more about the role of PM in projects, its areas of responsibility, and spheres of influence, we recommend you visit our portal where thematic materials on these issues are gathered.

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Sequence Diagram is still alive!

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Tips & Tricks for a Project Manager in Working with a Team

Let's briefly examine the trends that set the direction for the entire management industry. There are 5 key positions highlighted...

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How the absence of product vision in business analytics ruins projects

Vision is an inspired description of what an organization would like to achieve within the project. It is also a description of project goals, ideally based on an economic forecast. Typically, the concept encompasses both definitions and guides the team to make the right choices for achieving the ultimate goal.

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Areas of Responsibility and Spheres of Influence of a Project Manager

The experts at E5 have prepared materials that clearly describe what a project manager should and should not do. It is understood that other nuances may depend on the specific employer organization, but in general, there are common norms and standards for everyone.

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Soft or Hard skills? The most important skills of a project manager

In this article, you will find the answers to these questions, as well as learn about the project manager professional development plan and the features of building a career in this field.

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How to implement SAFe on your own.

This framework should be perceived as a construction set – there are four configurations of it, and you can easily choose the one that is optimal for you:

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What are clients afraid of when they invite consultants and plan to do a transformation?

Currently, we are in an active negotiation period in E5 for the launch of new transformations. Some have already begun, while others are in the process of searching for a format of cooperation. It's very interesting to observe the concerns of colleagues regarding the involvement of consultants and the implementation of transformations. So we have gathered the most popular ones:

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Product Owner Checklist: From Idea to Task

The Product Owner role includes many aspects, among which are the ability to meet different levels of requirements, to maintain a balance between strategic product development, creating a vision and value, as well as working with a team on a daily basis and creating tasks that they can understand. To develop a quality product, the Product Owner must ensure that he/she has all types of requirements: strategic, tactical, and operational. To make the task easier, we offer a small checklist that ...

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Role of Scrum Master in scaling in Agile

The role of Scrum Master is simple and difficult at the same time. Simple, because the core responsibilities are described in the Scrum Guide, which everyone relies on. Difficult, because this role has quite a lot of additional duties and functions. And their list expands significantly when the Scrum Master works with many teams.

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