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Avoiding Root Causes of Troubled Projects

MPUG

Prevention measures should be considered to reduce or contain the root causes of troubled projects, thereby improving project quality, profitability, and customer satisfaction. I’ve divided my list of root causes into two areas: Root Causes from Solution Design and Root Causes from Solution Delivery.

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How to manage team conflict (& 5 strategies for conflict resolution)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Projects can be a hotbed of conflict. From the difficult stakeholder who wants to undermine the project’s success to a disagreement about a feature of a deliverable, project work lends itself to workplace conflict situations. And project managers contribute hugely to that because we go out and look for it.

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RAG (and BRAG) status and how to use them on projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Have you seen project status reports with colored boxes in different shades of green, amber, and red? Or project names written in those colors where the rest of the text is black? That’s the RAG status of the project. of investment is wasted due to poor project performance. What is RAG is project management?

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Scope Creep: How to Prevent a Major Source of Project Failure

MPUG

Why do projects go wrong? In the end, something has to give, and sometimes that results in an obvious project failure. At some point early in the development of a project, we need to establish the scope of that project. At some point early in the development of a project, we need to establish the scope of that project.

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Understanding RAG in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Have you seen project status reports with colored boxes in different shades of green, amber, and red? Or project names written in those colors where the rest of the text is black? That’s the RAG status of the project. of investment is wasted due to poor project performance. What is RAG is project management?

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Reducing Risks & Boosting Quality with External Evaluations

MPUG

Likewise, the testing of a new software and/or hardware project shouldn’t be entirely done by the project team. Project teams can lack the motivation for evaluating their own work: a mindset of wanting to expose errors or defects and the ability of thinking outside of the box. Regression testing is the final examination.

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Managing Team Conflict and Strategies for Conflict Resolution

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Projects can be a hotbed of conflict. From the difficult stakeholder who wants to undermine the project’s success to a disagreement about a feature of a deliverable, project work lends itself to workplace conflict situations. And project managers contribute hugely to that because we go out and look for it.