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7 Hidden dangers of project management (Or why even well-planned projects sometimes fail)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

During a company integration program, customer service levels dropped by 25-50% because the team management focused their efforts on reorganizing and changing employees’ roles and responsibilities, all with “the best of intentions”. For example, in June 2010 Chrysler merged with Fiat. So why do some projects crash to their doom?

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PMI Are some more equal than others?

The Lazy Project Manager

The ones I attend are the ones with good speakers… IPMA in particular has a very poor choice of speaker. Based on my ideas and this feedback I checked out the PMI congresses in EMEA and NA and APAC since 2010 and guess what? So what is my concern and why am I mentioning PMI? There is no escape from reality now.

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10 Project Management Hacks Every Project Manager Should Know

The Squad Report

A KPMG survey of 100 businesses reported 70% of organizations faced at least one project failure in the year 2010 alone. An effective project manager is one who will always look for ways to streamline the project, team collaboration, and its outcomes. He/she creates a bond with the team members separate from deadlines and launch dates.

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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

ProjectManager.com

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. The bad news, it’s hard to master. Scrum is part of agile software development and teams practicing agile.

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

Project Management Training & Certification. Keys to Project Success: 48% say the team’s technical skills. 26% say effective team communication. Lean & Test Driven Development (TDD) – 11%. Feature Development Driven – 9%. Dynamic Systems Development Method – 3%. Poor purchasing processes: 23%.

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Waterfall Should Have Never Existed: Part 1

MPUG

your project team). Banks have essentially been software developing organizations for a long time. This has led to a dramatic growth in software development projects and in the number of software project managers we’ve seen and will continue to see. I will explain how you can marry these two seemingly?opposite To manage-in (i.e.

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Webinar Recap: Microsoft Project Do’s, Don’ts, and Cool Customizations

MPUG

Within your history, you can print or download your transcript, certificates of completion including the one for today. Sam first gained insight into Microsoft Project while working as a member of the project development and support team. Once again, let’s see how bad it is, and there we can see it.