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A certified project manager talks about his ambition

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Posted on July 18, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

A certified project manager talks about his ambition

Peter Bryan is a Certified Project Manager. Received his certificate from the management certification organization BVOP.org.

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Posted on June 30, 2022July 8, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

Preparation for PSM, CSM, and BVOSM Scrum Master certification exam with sample questions

Several popular Scrum Master certification programs around the world offer the Certified Scrum Master title.

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Posted on May 26, 2022July 8, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

Why use the Scrum framework for your projects?

The Scrum framework is often confused with project management methodology. Scrum is a way of working through which you can easily and quickly create a …

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Posted on April 15, 2022July 8, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

Development of human resources management projects

The principles of adequacy, complexity, efficiency, completeness, scientificity, democracy, variability, reasonableness, and applicability must be respected in the development of human resources management projects.

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Posted on March 29, 2022July 8, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

Example of a strategic plan for a software development company

Strategic planning is an important process when starting a new company. The directors and CEO of the organization must draw up a strategic plan. In …

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Posted on March 1, 2022July 8, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

Scrum and Kanban: similarities and differences

Scrum and Kanban are popular Agile product development methods. Although confused with project management practices, Scrum and Kanban have nothing to do with popular project …

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Posted on August 9, 2021July 8, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

To be a leader means to be awake

Have you ever been in a situation that required your lightning intervention and you were unable to respond adequately because you felt distracted?

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Posted on July 19, 2021July 8, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

The control function and types of control in the management

Control is a process by which the organization’s management determines whether it is making the right decisions and when it needs to take corrective action.

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Posted on July 12, 2021July 8, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

Types of organizational and managerial structures

Many types of organizational and managerial structures have been established in the scientific literature and practice, but each of them has its application, advantages, disadvantages, …

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Posted on July 5, 2021July 8, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

What is Project Risk Management

Risk is a traditional and mandatory topic in project management.

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Posted on December 6, 2020July 8, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

The Best Project Management Courses for 2022

In this report, we will describe the best project management courses for 2021 and 2022. Project management is critical to the success of any organization. …

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Posted on November 23, 2020July 8, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

Why you should load banks?

    Load bank; they are gadgets that create an electrical charge, apply the stack to an electrical control source and change or disseminate the …

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Posted on August 6, 2020July 8, 2022 by: Andrew Helwer

My first week as a project manager

Project management practices can also be very interesting if of course, the approach you use allows you. After participating last year in an experiment exploring …

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Posted on June 15, 2020July 8, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

Scrum Sprint Review meeting Questions and Answers

The Sprint Review event is part of the Scrum framework and takes place at the end of each sprint. During the Sprint Review meeting, the …

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Posted on April 20, 2020July 8, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

Trends and features of modern management

Today, new public sector management is not just a set of ideas and political intentions for change. It has become widely practiced in a number …

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Posted on March 17, 2020July 8, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

7 tips to reduce the impact on your business of the COVID-19 pandemic

The crisis that has suddenly plagued us with the COVID-19 pandemic has been an unknown trial to anyone and every business. There are two types …

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Posted on February 28, 2020July 8, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

Nuestro Himno and the English-Only Movement

Author: Deb Kong My grandmother never learned to speak English, other than what was required for her citizenship test. After immigrating to the United States …

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Posted on February 28, 2020July 8, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

One step forward, three steps back

Few years ago, the California Nurses Association began collecting signatures to place a “clean elections” proposition on the November ballot. Were the initiative only about …

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Posted on February 17, 2020July 8, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

The High Cost of Education

If you think that it’s getting outrageously expensive to get an education, you wouldn’t be wrong. Some quick facts from Strapped, a new book from Demos, a …

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Posted on February 15, 2020July 8, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

Building a (Small) Movement

Someone once told me that you can craft the best, most innovative public policy, but unless you can get people to listen, it won’t make …

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Posted on February 2, 2020July 8, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

“English Only” A Decade Later

A study released by the American Institutes for Research and WestED says that no one approach shows significant gains over others in teaching English learners, …

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Posted on January 12, 2020July 8, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

When Business Strategy Meets Philanthropic Giving

Experts in the field of corporate social responsibility (CSR) have advocated for some years now that in order to succeed in this new era of …

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Posted on January 11, 2020July 8, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

Expectmore.gov is still online

Remember the project of the Office of Management and Budget? It is still here. (Expectmore.gov) It is designed to encourage more accountability from federal programs …

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Posted on January 9, 2020July 8, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

What’s in a Champion?

Since the inception of the failed “Bowl Alliance” in 1996 and the subsequent “Bowl Championship Series (BCS)” which has had its share of problems, many …

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Posted on November 27, 2019July 8, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

Managing business organizations and adding business value. An Agile Manager’s Guide to the Theory of BVOP.org

What is business value, and how to increase the value of a business organization according to BVOP.org? https://bvop.org has announced the following organizational value-added business …

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Posted on November 8, 2019July 8, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

Change Management Plan – Real Sample Document, Example

The following material is a real change managing change plan in project management practices. After the problem management plan, there is published a real example …

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Posted on November 5, 2019July 8, 2022 by: Kimberly Jackson

How people perceive leaders and their attitude toward managers in organizations

As a leader, you cannot afford to spend too much time and attention on things that others say and think about you. If you did, …

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Posted on November 4, 2019July 8, 2022 by: Kimberly Jackson

Agile Scrum Master Certification Training Course online in 2021

Everyone can enroll in an online agile Scrum certification training course in 2021. Project management using Scrum is becoming a key business skill globally. Project …

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Posted on October 25, 2019July 15, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

Project Charter – detailed real example for Project Planning phases

This is a real example of a Project Charter document that is extensively used in project management practices and processes. The most common use of …

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Posted on October 7, 2019July 8, 2022 by: Jeremy Conley

Are corporate tax shelters unpatriotic? Corporate tax in the USA for American corporations

Tax evasion is not the only charge being levied — the American corporation is under extreme scrutiny from all corners. An article about Corporate tax …

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Posted on October 7, 2019July 8, 2022 by: Jeremy Conley

Democratic Club signed on, as did Senator Dianne Feinstein

Democratic Club signed on, as did Senator Dianne Feinstein, peninsula congressman Tom Lantos, Glide Memorial Church’s Rev. Cecil Williams, and a diverse assortment of ethnic …

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Posted on October 7, 2019July 8, 2022 by: Jeremy Conley

For San Francisco’s owners and landlords, constricted supply turns out to be great for business

For San Francisco’s incumbent owners and landlords, constricted supply turns out to be great for business. Unaffordability in these precincts is a boon, not a …

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Posted on October 7, 2019July 8, 2022 by: Matt Jordan

In San Francisco, voting initiatives that promise to ease the city’s famed housing crisis are starting and going

IN SAN FRANCISCO, ballot initiatives promising to ease the City’s renowned housing crunch come and go. From the article The Tragedy of Proposition J: A …

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Posted on October 6, 2019July 8, 2022 by: Matt Jordan

Assessing the Risk in Project management and Quantitative approaches to risk

Assessing the Risk in Project management is a very crucial activity. We will discuss the Quantitative approaches to risk as well. We have to recognise …

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Posted on October 3, 2019July 8, 2022 by: Matt Jordan

Example of COSMIC FP counting in Project Management

Estimating in project management is an issue that we believe deserves attention as legal initiative that may be a base for official proposals and taxation …

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Posted on May 12, 2019July 8, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

Business Value-Oriented Project Management (BVOPM) – Review and study

Business Value-Oriented Project Management (BVOPM) is a new project management standard that aims to help eliminate waste during product development and increase business value added …

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Posted on November 2, 2017July 8, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

The Virtues of an All-Volunteer Military?

Certain objects of public dialogue – such as “supply-side” economics, or whether or not human overpopulation will have catastrophic results – rise and fall cyclically, coming and …

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Posted on October 20, 2017July 8, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

San Francisco’s Bloody Problem

The last three years have seen a notable spike in homicide and gun violence in the Bay Area. In 2005, San Francisco’s homicide rate was the …

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Posted on August 1, 2017July 8, 2022 by: Matt Jordan

The Secret Lives of Bees

An alarming, potentially disastrous agricultural mystery has unfolded quietly over the past few months. Honeybees – the United States chief pollinator – have been leaving their hives …

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Posted on July 2, 2017July 8, 2022 by: Matt Jordan

California’s Aggressive (and Wildly Unrealistic) New End-Use Energy Goals

The California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) today released its Proposed Decision on Issues Relating to Future Savings Goals and Program Planning for 2009-2011 Energy Efficiency and Beyond.

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Posted on July 1, 2017July 8, 2022 by: Matt Jordan

Forgive Me Father, For I Have Emitted

By accepting a donation of about $130,000 in carbon offsets from the publicity-starved – and San Francisco based! – Planktos International, the Vatican this summer became the world’s …

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Posted on June 4, 2017July 8, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

More On Immigration

Everyone has her own point of view on immigration reform. Indeed it is a policy area fraught with emotion and sentiment. Both sides debate migrant …

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Posted on May 11, 2017July 8, 2022 by: Deb Kong

The grand experiment of Obama

As unimaginable as it may have been a year ago, we are now presented with a new front runner in the democratic primary race — …

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Posted on May 2, 2017July 8, 2022 by: Deb Kong

May 1: To Boycott or Not to Boycott?

Tomorrow, May 1, advocates are organizing what they have dubbed “The Great American Boycott,” urging immigrants to demonstrate their economic clout by staying home from …

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Posted on April 15, 2017July 8, 2022 by: Marta Cooper

Reducing Mental Health Stigma in the Military

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced today that the military security clearance process will no longer include questions about mental health care history. This is …

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Posted on March 18, 2017July 8, 2022 by: Deb Kong

The Epicenter of the National Immigration Debate

I drove to Southern California last week seeking a relaxing spring break, but instead I discovered something even more interesting: traveling through Los Angeles on …

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Posted on February 20, 2017July 8, 2022 by: Jeremy Conley

Net Neutrality and What a Bad Poll Looks Like

Sen. Ted “Series of Tubes” Stevens’ anti-Net Neutrality bill (S. 2686) will soon be coming before the full Senate. The bill not only seeks to …

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Posted on February 13, 2017July 8, 2022 by: Kimberly Jackson

A Tale of Two Patent Systems: Pharma and IT Square Off in D.C.

Last Wednesday, Feb 7, Robert Barr, who heads the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology spoke about the current political debate around patent reform, which has mostly …

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Posted on February 13, 2017July 8, 2022 by: Matt Jordan

As goes Maine and Arizona so goes California?

Greg I am not nearly as enthusiastic about the effectiveness of Clean Elections to fix the problems with money in politics. Clean money programs do …

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  • A certified project manager talks about his ambition
  • Preparation for PSM, CSM, and BVOSM Scrum Master certification exam with sample questions
  • Why use the Scrum framework for your projects?
  • Development of human resources management projects
  • Example of a strategic plan for a software development company
  • Scrum and Kanban: similarities and differences
  • To be a leader means to be awake
  • The control function and types of control in the management
  • Types of organizational and managerial structures
  • What is Project Risk Management
  • The Best Project Management Courses for 2022
  • Why you should load banks?
  • My first week as a project manager
  • Scrum Sprint Review meeting Questions and Answers
  • Trends and features of modern management
  • 7 tips to reduce the impact on your business of the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Nuestro Himno and the English-Only Movement
  • One step forward, three steps back
  • The High Cost of Education
  • Building a (Small) Movement
  • “English Only” A Decade Later
  • When Business Strategy Meets Philanthropic Giving
  • Expectmore.gov is still online
  • What’s in a Champion?
  • Managing business organizations and adding business value. An Agile Manager’s Guide to the Theory of BVOP.org
  • Change Management Plan – Real Sample Document, Example
  • How people perceive leaders and their attitude toward managers in organizations
  • Agile Scrum Master Certification Training Course online in 2021
  • Project Charter – detailed real example for Project Planning phases
  • Are corporate tax shelters unpatriotic? Corporate tax in the USA for American corporations
  • Democratic Club signed on, as did Senator Dianne Feinstein
  • For San Francisco’s owners and landlords, constricted supply turns out to be great for business
  • In San Francisco, voting initiatives that promise to ease the city’s famed housing crisis are starting and going
  • Assessing the Risk in Project management and Quantitative approaches to risk
  • Example of COSMIC FP counting in Project Management
  • Business Value-Oriented Project Management (BVOPM) – Review and study
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  • San Francisco’s Bloody Problem
  • The Secret Lives of Bees
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