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Simplifying Procurement in Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

This step involves detailed discussions to align contract terms with project goals and budget allocation, ensuring that contracts support the project's financial targets and resource availability. Manage and Review Procurement Performance : Oversee the procurement process and evaluate outcomes.

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Best agency project management software: 10 tools to short-list today – Part 5

Resource Guru

Integration and compatibility: Consider the tool’s compatibility with your existing agency tech stack. Set due dates, add attachments, and leave comments to keep everyone in the loop. Project organization: Stay organized with project boards that let you visualize tasks and workflows. Do they offer a robust API?

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

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. Management of Novel Projects Under Conditions of High Uncertainty,” A.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

Benchmarking Effort Estimation Models Using Archetypal Analysis,” Nikolaos Mittas, Vagia Karpenisi, and Lefteris Angelis, ACM PROMIS ’14, September 17, 2014. International Journal of Technology in Education and Science (IJTES), 3(2), 72-84. Dori, IEEE Systems Journal, January 2014. “A & Zein, S., 9, Issue 3, No. 1, May 2012.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

Review on Traditional and Agile Cost Estimation Success Factor in Software Development Project,” Zulkefli Mansor, Saadiah Yahya, Noor Habibah Hj Arshad, International Journal on New Computer Architectures and Their Applications (IJNCAA) 1(3): 942–952. “The Armour, Communications of the ACM , January 2014, Vol.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Project Performance Management (#PPM). Agile Project Management (#APM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Management Processes (#MP).