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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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Five reasons why Scrum is not helping in getting twice the work done in half the time

Scrum.org

I originally published this blog on Medium and reposting it here again. I worked as a product owner for my first product in 2007–08 to manage the insurance lifecycle for a major insurance company in America. Or measuring things like defects per story, defect removal efficiency and code coverage, etc.

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Top PM 10 Articles of All Time

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In case you’ve only just stumbled across this blog, in 2021 I celebrated 15 years of blogging about project management. In September 2007 I published a guide to why projects fail. That was back in the days before I had brand guidelines for how my blog should look – we’ve updated quite a few things since then!

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Product-Market Fit: What Is It & Why Is It Important?

ProjectManager.com

You can thank Marc Andreessen , the American entrepreneur, investor and software engineer, for the hyphenated phrase. The obvious one is the Apple iPhone, a device that wasn’t unique but captured the imagination of customers so effectively that it’s hard to believe it was only introduced in 2007. What is Product-Market Fit?

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Transforming Learning with Educational Software Solutions: Empowering Education for the Future

Productivity Land

Educational software packages are altering how students learn around the globe. This may be seen in how students are employing educational software to know in your house, additionally to how teachers are employing educational software to have interaction with their students in classrooms.

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?? Project Manager e Scrum Master, due mestieri diversi

Scrum.org

Project Manager e Scrum Master sono due mestieri diversi. Se sei un project manager, senti parlare sempre di più di Scrum e vorresti capire cosa c'è di così diverso fra questi due ruoli? Perché dovresti scegliere fra l'uno o l'altro e non si può fare un pò dei due? Project Manager e Scrum Master Sono due mestieri diversi.

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Key Components of the DevOps Pipeline?

Agilemania

Concerns were voiced in the IT operations and software development sectors from 2007 to 2008 about the old software development paradigm that split operations from developers regarding how code was distributed and supported. The DevOps lifecycle is intended to produce, test, consume, and improve software products.