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			<span class="post-date">May 28</span>

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				Posted by <a href="/forum/user/1053-pooja-agarwal">Pooja Agarwal</a>				in <a href="/resources/sigmaway-blog/analytics">Analytics</a>			</span>
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	<p class="MsoNormal">Software development is a tough job. And what is tougher? Its managing those software projects. Its not enough to know about project management. But what really needed is keeping pace with the oh – so –fast moving IT industry. So here are some challenges that might be faced by the project management team-</p>
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<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 18.75pt; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: #161616; font-weight: normal;">4.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: #161616; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; font-weight: normal;">SaaS offerings taking over</span></strong></h3>
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<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 18.75pt; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: #161616; font-weight: normal;">8.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: #161616; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; font-weight: normal;">Revenue recognition reporting requirements for the software industry</span></strong></h3>
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<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 18.75pt; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: #161616; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; font-weight: normal;">Read the complete article here: </span></strong><a href="http://www.computerworld.in/feature/8-challenges-affecting-software-project-management" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">http://www.computerworld.in/feature/8-challenges-affecting-software-project-management</span></a></h3></div>

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