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Why do projects fail? (Includes examples!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here are some high-profile failed projects: Following an internal review, Multiplex, the Australian development company responsible for the reconstruction of the Wembley Stadium, became aware that costs for the project were escalating to the point that the company would make a loss of £750 million on the project. billion to £10.9

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Practical Fibonacci: A Beginner's Guide to Relative Sizing

Scrum.org

A traditional or Waterfall software development lifecycle includes a long and detailed planning period to define requirements before beginning development. In an Agile approach, the developers only know enough to get started–they don’t know everything needed to complete an item. 2006, Jørgensen and Grimstad).

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Burnout in Project Management

The IIL Blog

Articles are now appearing addressing burnout specifically in a project management environment [Verma (1996), Haynes and Love (2004), Richmond and Skitmore (2006), Pinto et al., Techniques have been developed describing ways to recover all or part of the expected business value from a distressed project [Morais-Storz et al.,

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Estimating Agile Projects.Or Not

Leading Answers

For software projects following an agile approach, the team is often asked to estimate the development effort for stories in the backlog. As the team starts work on these stories, they may discover some are more complex than initially anticipated and need splitting into multiple stories.

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Systems Thinking in Organizational Coaching

Scrum.org

It is located in the neocortex and developed relatively recently. In the context of a product development it might refer to poor performance of the product group or a business unit, deteriorating revenues, outgoing quality etc. A software development effort is always a system! Systems Thinking in Organizations.

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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

This article explains what a risk-adjusted backlog is, why they are useful, how to create one and how teams work with them. ' In deciding which feature to develop first, those with the highest economic value are selected. I wrote about these ideas when I started blogging in 2006 as  Risk Profile Graphs.

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The Must-Read Reading List for Project Communication and Collaboration

Rebel’s Guide to PM

. Project teams communicate and collaborate by default, don’t they? That certainly hasn’t been the case for all the teams I have worked on. Don’t assume your project team will know how (or even want to) communicate well and collaborate with each other. This book reminds us that conflict on teams is inevitable.

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