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A Short History of Project Management

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Another major project related happening was the growing popularity of value engineering (VE), which was widely used at General Electric. This functioned to help measure the value of alternatives (for example, using cheaper resources and/or materials to reduce project costs or design-to-cost) especially when there was a scarcity of resources.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

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Five Immutable Principles of Project Success - There are many (possibly too many) methods for successfully managing a project. But each method needs to be based on 5 Immutable principles to be successful, no matter the domain or context, PMI Spring Seminar , 2012, Austin TX. PMI Lakeshore Ontario Chapter , 27 October 2018.

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Risk Management Resources

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Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003. 79, 2008. “`,” Stephen Ward and Chris Chapman , International Journal of Project Management , 21, pp. Making,” T.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Effective Risk Management 2nd Edition, Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 3: Using MS Project to Track and Report on Performance

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This one’s titled using MS Project to track and report on performance. And today’s session is eligible for one PDU in a technical category, the activity code for claiming that with PMI is on the screen now. I now have a project cost dashboard. Not for a single project. And it will.