Green Project Management

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

“I don’t want to wear something on my body that hurts the environment or the people in it. It’s hard to know what is good and what is bad on the high street and equally hard to find fashionable or youthful ethical clothing. It shocks me that even today only 1% of cotton produced in […]. The post A rookie mistake with sustainable procurement… Lessons Learned appeared first on Delivering a better world, one project at a time.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The mantra of Agile is Trust the team. In some domains, that is an admirable goal. In other domains it's a naïve path to disaster. I work in the latter domain, on mission critical, sometimes national asset programs, but always mission critical - can't fail, must work, must provide proper information when called upon to do so. When we are called on to perform a Root Cause Analysis of why the system failed to do what it was suppose to be, we find the same thing that Dr.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Planning and overseeing a project so that it’s completed on time, within budget, and meets expectations is not an easy feat. The best project managers know how to balance stakeholder communications with preventing scope creep, watch out for risk, and clarify roles, responsibilities, and priorities within their team. Steal some of the secrets to their success by using these 10 best practices in project management. . 1.

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Musings on Project Management

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The following is borrowed unashamedly from Matthew Squair at Critical Uncertainties: "Herewith, are the 15 commandments for thine safety critical software as spoken by the machine god unto his prophet Hermann Kopetz. Thou shalt regard the system safety case as thy tabernacle of safety and derive thine critical software failure modes and requirements from it.

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Function Point

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Each summer at Function Point we get sorted into cross-departmental teams and have a day to mind-melt with people we don’t usually work with while competing in our annual scavenger hunt. The fierce competition, the mentally challenging riddles, the serious amount of team chirping— it can be a daunting experience for even the most veteran Function Pointers.

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