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Construction insurance company Billy raises additional $2.5 million

TechCrunch

Construction insurance company Billy announced today the closing of an additional $2.5 Nyasha Gutsa and Grant Robbins started the company in 2020 as a pandemic project. Gutsa and Robbins were inspired to launch the company after noticing that risk in the construction sector was steadily increasing. “In

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Best Project Management Tools: Comparing Trello, Basecamp, Jira, Smartsheet, MS Project, and More

Altexsoft

Team leads inform a project manager on the ongoing actions. And a project manager keeps executives and stakeholders in the know. . Project management tools serve this purpose. Project management tools serve this purpose. Project management software and its main features.

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How Definition of Done Delivers The Best Product Ever

MagmaLabs

Scrum is an Agile Project Management methodology (or framework) used first and foremost for software development. Scrum Project Management is an Agile framework. This means that it is a structure used to implement the ideas behind Agile Project Management. Click To Tweet. What is Scrum in Agile?

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Five Flute’s $1.2M pre-seed deck

TechCrunch

What if hardware product managers had tools as good as those available for software PMs? Product road map slide. “The Ask” slide. One incredible thing about this deck is that, in seeing its construction, I can imagine the frustration of Five Flute’s founder. The company raised a $1.2

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What, Exactly, Is Agile Management?

The Agile Manager

Historically, management has never been loved, and in fact is often loathed, by engineers. Management appears to be well integrated in Agile teams, not an overhead, nuisance, or encumbrance as it is in traditional project management. They all had characteristics that are applicable to all management roles.

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Software Architect Role, Skills, and Impact on Product Success

Altexsoft

Software architect vs product manager. A product manager studies external factors like market trends, demand for a particular solution, necessity for improvements, and offerings from competitors. An architect researches existing technical possibilities, a product manager analyzes market opportunities for a new product.

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Tools for Doing a Problem Discovery

UruIT

So, you might have: Dan, a construction project manager, has employees who hate doing paperwork. As you can see, this problem statement gives you a very clear outline, and probably sparks some ideas that might be the basis of your product. He wants to find a paperless way to get information from field crews faster.

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