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Elevate your Project Management with SPICE

MPUG

SPICE (Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination) is a development framework that provides a structured approach for organizations to assess and improve their software development processes. With proper implementation, SPICE not only identifies weaknesses but maximizes strengths and development potential.

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The Evolution of Project Management

The IIL Blog

Private Sector Project Manager Selection The birth of modern-day project management is most frequently attributed to the engineering community, mainly aerospace and defense. Unfortunately, the same PMs often were quite poor at writing reports. The starting point was the selection of individuals to function as project managers.

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Project Management Guidelines (Part 1) - What We Can Learn From Project Failures

Inloox

A good project manager knows that some developments are out of their control. " Probably the most famous of all management laws is attributed to American military pilot and aerospace engineer Edward Aloysius Murphy, Jr. " This assumption can be especially applied to relying on project management software for support.

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A Phase-Gate Process in Project Management: Questions and Answers

Epicflow Blog

Read further to learn its essence and structure, the types of projects it’s used for, the strong and weak points of the technique, and more. A phase-gate process (also known as a stage-gate process) is an approach to managing projects and developing products, which breaks the whole procedure down into phases separated by gates.

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5 Steps to Create Technical Documentation That’s (Actually) Helpful

Planio

Technical documentation can quickly go from “here’s how to use this if you’re unfamiliar and have limited experience” to “here’s an unedited transcript of everything our developer told us about this obscure application of our API.” Once you’ve put your team together, writing technical documents comes down to a few simple steps.

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Modeling the Future is the Basis of Project Success

Herding Cats

It's the Planning and Controls processes working together with the Technical Development processes that provide the ability to forecast what should happen in the future if we keep going like we are going now using a Model of the possible future outcomes. In our aerospace and defense business - not so much. So the open question is.

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Top 11 Must-Read Project Management Books

Epicflow Blog

Becoming a competent and sought-after project manager is impossible without constant professional development. The essays are based on Scott Berkun’s work experience as a project manager at Microsoft, which however doesn’t mean that his guidelines will be useful for software development projects only.