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            <title><![CDATA[How to apply PDCA to tasks in Darlean]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Let's walk through the PDCA methodology in practice, using the example task "Prepare a presentation for a client."]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Visualizing Success: What You Need to Know About Gantt Charts]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[If you have ever dealt with planning at work, you have certainly heard about the Gantt chart. This popular project management tool helps visually represent tasks and deadlines, providing a clear understanding of processes and dependencies in a project. It is especially important for teamwork.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Lifesaver in a Sea of Chaos: Why IDEF0 Is Used]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[IDEF0 is a business process modeling method used for representing, designing, and analyzing system processes. Its main feature is the decomposition of complex systems into manageable parts. With its help, one can relatively quickly understand how a business functions, what resources are needed for work, what can be improved, and where "bottlenecks" exist.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[What is CustDev and How to Prepare for It?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In CIS countries, CustDev is often associated with interviews that help businesses better understand the pain points of their target audience (TA). Quality feedback allows determining the true needs of users or even changing the development vector of a project. However, CustDev is not limited to just conducting interviews.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Jobs to be Done. Part 2: Why the Customer's Voice Matters More Than a Killer Feature]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[What is more important: implementing innovations faster or capturing a larger share of the market? How closely are research costs related to a company's profit growth? There are no definitive answers to these questions. But it is very important for any company to listen to the customer and establish communication with consumers.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[What a Junior Project Manager Should Know. Part 1: Strategic Aspects]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A project manager is a specialist responsible for achieving project goals. They must create a plan, ensure the acquisition of necessary resources, and manage the actual execution of a project with a defined scope, start, and end date.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) in IT Projects: Why It's Needed and How to Conduct It]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) is one of the key tools for evaluating the economic efficiency of IT projects. This method helps compare the costs of project implementation with expected benefits, allowing informed decisions to be made. In conditions of limited budget and resources, CBA is especially necessary for justifying investments, choosing between alternative solutions, and minimizing risks.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[What a Junior Project Manager Should Know. Part 2: Tactical and Flexible Skills]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We continue to discuss Project Management. The profession opens wide career opportunities and allows working in very different areas of the economy.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[ Name Your Requirements: How to Turn Ideas into a Working IT Product]]></title>
            <link>https://app.darlean.com/knowledge-base/reference-materials/mpj2xar8g1ib38exk2wpviaj/</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A successful product begins with an insight — an idea about how to make users' lives better or how to solve an existing problem. But how do you ensure that the initial idea is implemented by the team exactly as intended? Requirements — sometimes called the runway for ideas — allow the entire team to reach a common understanding so the product can "take off."]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[What is the Product Lifecycle?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The product lifecycle is a concept about what stages a product goes through during its circulation in the market. Using this framework helps companies successfully manage their products. The concept is used to make decisions about which resources, specialists, how exactly, and in what quantity to engage depending on the state of the product.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[ Lifehacks for Effective Requirements Gathering: "I Meant Something Different"]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[One of the key aspects of an analyst's work is proper communication with the client. You can spend a lot of time trying to guess what the business needs if you don't ask the right questions.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Build the "Black Box": Why Requirement Traceability Matters]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Requirements are the foundation of a product, but without a clear connection between them and the final solution, it's easy to lose the logic of development. If the team cannot trace how and why a particular requirement appeared, there is a high probability of errors, duplication of work, and failure to meet expectations.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Rabbit Hole: How Deep Business Analysts Need to Understand APIs]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[API (Application Programming Interface) is a technology that allows programs to communicate with each other. As an analogy, one can use a waiter in a restaurant, a door (allows entering a house or going outside), or a bank teller who gives clients money. What matters here is that clients themselves don't need to be a waiter or teller to obtain the necessary resources.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Jobs to be Done. Part 1: Why Products Are "Hired for Work"]]></title>
            <link>https://app.darlean.com/knowledge-base/reference-materials/yk2uql29rsejak3qp5oc07g6/</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Jobs to be Done methodology (JTBD — work that needs to be done) is one of the most widespread in the field of marketing and product management. It emerged as a result of numerous attempts by specialists to offer a product that truly interests the market. Traditionally, managers studied demographic data, but this information did not explain the reasons why customers make purchases. According to the JTBD methodology, customers do not simply make purchases — they "hire" a product to perform certain tasks.]]></description>
            <category>Product Management</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[What a Junior Product Manager Should Know?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This is a cross-functional role that involves interaction with both the team and the main stakeholders in the company and clients.]]></description>
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