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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. Since almost all of the projects were technical in nature, two criteria were established for someone to be appointed as a project manager (PM). This appeased DoD.

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

Planio

For as long as we’ve had tools we need help using (and language to talk to each other), we’ve had technical documentation. The first example of technical writing in English dates back to the Middle Ages when Chaucer wrote a guide to the astrolabe—a device used for measuring the distance of stars). Get peer reviews and make revisions.

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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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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. A Critical Review Of Risk Management Support Tools,” Irem Dikmen, M. Risk Management Papers. “A De Meyer, C.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. México, 1 al 3 de Febrero de 2006. De Meyer, C.

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

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%. Aerospace/. Technology. Poor purchasing processes: 23%.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. We develop these reference classes using Agile Function Points. We use Vitech's Core.