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Why do projects fail? (Includes examples!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The Airbus A380 took its maiden transatlantic voyage in March 2007, silencing the critics and proving it could use runways shorter than other smaller jets. A version of this article first appeared on this blog in 2007. The Scottish Parliament building. How would you define success on projects? How would you define project failure?

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Top PM 10 Articles of All Time

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In September 2007 I published a guide to why projects fail. At the time, the project was desperately short of cash. Gipsy Moth IV did make her planned round-the-world journey and continues to operate today , taking groups on breath-taking sea journeys.

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In-Depth: How Coherence And Cohesion Are Critical To Scrum

Scrum.org

Specifically for Agile teams, Whitworth & Biddle (2007) found that commitment to team goals increases cohesion, team effectiveness, knowledge sharing, and feedback processes. 2007, August). In Agile 2007 (AGILE 2007) (pp. The value of collective goals has been long recognized in social psychology.

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Overcoming bias in project management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

About the author: Roland Hoffmann, who founded Hoffmann Conseho in 2007, has spent 20 years leading projects in technology, construction, marketing, operations and finance. The goal is not for you to question every action and decision, but one who makes critical decisions with the use of due diligence to avoid human shortcomings.

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Why the Nexus Daily Scrum is not Scrum of Scrums: 4 Differences Every Scrum Master Needs to Know

Scrum.org

In contrast, Ken Schwaber in "The Enterprise and Scrum" from 2007 describes the Scrum of Scrum as a Daily Scrum of Scrums meeting. Often, these inter-team impediments are resolved by agreeing on interfaces between teams or negotiating responsibility boundaries.

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Modularized megaprojects: Failure of Conventional Approaches (Part 1)

Inloox

Originally, the megaproject was to be completed in 2007 at costs of only 2 billion euros. Tesla as a pioneer in the modularization of megaprojects In Germany, it is almost a tradition that large public projects fail. A prime example in this context is the BER Airport. A project of similar scope was the first Tesla Gigafactory in Nevada.

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4 Unterschiede, warum das Nexus Daily Scrum kein Scrum of Scrum ist

Scrum.org

Hingegen beschreibt Ken Schwaber in „The Enterprise and Scrum" von 2007 das Scrum of Scrum, als ein Daily Scrum of Scrums Meeting. Häufig werden diese teamübergreifenden Hindernisse gelöst, indem Schnittstellen zwischen Teams vereinbart werden oder Verantwortungsgrenzen verhandelt werden.

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