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Innovative integration drives automotive group to SAP awards

CIO

Founded in 2006 and based in Shanghai, China Grand Automotive Services Group Co., CGA also has its own SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for day-to-day activities, including accounting and project management. I’m sure you’ve heard this before: “ Solve one problem, and you keep a hundred others away.

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Craig St. Jean, From Young Programmer to Chief Technology Architect

Xebia

Before OutSystems In 2006, I finally began my professional career as a Java developer at a Property & Casualty insurance company. That said, the experience I gained by being in the Project Manager role really opened my eyes to a different way of viewing things.

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Top 10 Project Management Mistakes You Should Avoid

QAspire

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Top 10 Project Management Mistakes You Should Avoid I was recently studying the anatomy of failed/troubled projects and following came out as a learning. Starting project without 102% clarity (100% clarity on scope/technology and 2% knowledge of how you can add value).

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Cost and Value of Certifications

Derek Huether

Let’s use the PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification as our working example. The exam was awful, as it really didn’t test my knowledge of being a good project manager. I even went so far as contributing to the Software Extension of the Project Management Body of Knowledge.

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The shift left fallacy

Xebia

When I started in consulting in 2006 as an analyst, the story of my seniors was that requirement elicitation should start as early as possible. See the figure of Stickyminds (I) for an indication of the costs saving related to catching defect early in the software development process. [I] Shift left fallacy during my life as a consultant.

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A Bit About the HP3000

The Daily WTF

The project was killed in 1970, which threw some of the staff into "wear black armbands to work" levels of mourning. Unfortunately, while work was done on Omega, the scope of Alpha crept, which resulted in another project management wasn't sure could be delivered. Circa 2006, she needed to update some Pascal code.

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Communities of Practice Tools that Your Team Will Love

Evolution4all

Project Management Tools for Organising Knowledge Resource and Community Tasks. Below are among the most popular project management tools used in various industries today. It’s a project management app that allows leaders to assign specific tasks to the members. Furthermore, Boulos et al.

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