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Project management: Tips, tools, best practices

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What is project management? Project management is a business discipline that involves applying specific processes, knowledge, skills, techniques, and tools to successfully deliver outcomes that meet project goals. Project management steps Project management is broken down into five phases or life cycle.

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What is a project manager? The lead role for project success

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What is a project manager? Project managers play the lead role in planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing out projects. They are accountable for the entire project scope , the project team and resources, the project budget, and the success or failure of the project.

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The potential for generative AI in government and public services

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Governments and public service agencies understand the enormous potential of generative AI. Recent research by McGuire Research Services for Avanade, shows 82% of government employees are using AI on a daily or weekly basis, while 84% of organisations plan to increase their IT investments by up to 24% to take advantage of AI.

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Data Lake Governance with Tagging in Databricks Unity Catalog

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Providing this level of access control substantially increases the quality of governance while reducing the workload involved. Tagging can make these assets more seachable, manageable and governable. It is possible to manage tags in the Catalog Explorer. Good governance is automated.

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Stakeholder management: Your guide to influencing project outcomes

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When key individuals are informed and on task, projects run smoothly. But when those impacted by or have an impact on a project are left out, the project can fall apart. Many project managers struggle to implement effective stakeholder management, despite its importance.

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Big Data Project Management: Data Must Flow!

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I'm currently researching big data project management in order to better understand what makes big data projects different from other tech related projects. So far I've interviewed more than a dozen government, private sector, and academic professionals, all of them experienced in managing data intensive projects.

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CIO Ryan Snyder on the benefits of interpreting data as a layer cake

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A data and analytics capability cannot emerge from an IT or business strategy alone. That strategy is doomed to fail. The best way to start a data strategy is to establish some real value drivers that the business can get behind. What happens at the architecture and governance layer? What are the layers?

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