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The Functions of a Project Management Office

Project Pulse Journal

A Project Management Office (PMO) is a centralized department within an organization that standardizes the governance of projects. It provides support and requires compliance through audits, project reviews, and the enforcement of specific practices. What is a Project Management Office?

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

System One requires very little energy or attention. Buhl, Transport Reviews, 24, 1, 3-18. [2] Acosta, and Angel Garcia Crespo, Behavior and Information Technology, 32(11):1?9, System One is an unconscious system that is automatic, fast, efficient at using the data or experience it already knows. Flyvbjerg, H. Kirchler, D.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

System One requires very little energy or attention. Buhl, Transport Reviews, 24, 1, 3-18. [2] Acosta, and Angel Garcia Crespo, Behavior and Information Technology, 32(11):1?9, System One is an unconscious system that is automatic, fast, efficient at using the data or experience it already knows. Flyvbjerg, H. Kirchler, D.

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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). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Governance (#Governance). Management Processes (#MP).

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

How Project Success is Measured: 20% — Satisfied stakeholders. Keys to Project Success: 48% say the team’s technical skills. Lean & Test Driven Development (TDD) – 11%. Government – Federal. Technology. Government – City/State/Local. Shifting requirements/technical complexity. Energy – 52%.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

Research clearly shows the root causes of most software projects cost and schedule overruns and technical shortfalls comes from poor risk management. Risk can be the potential consequence of a specific outcome that affects the system’s ability to meet cost, schedule, and/or technical objectives. Now To Risk Management.

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Why Johnny Can't Do The Math

Herding Cats

In a previous post, Why Johnny Can't Estimate , mentioned some resources for estimating, the principles of business and technical management that demand estimates be made to make decisions, and background on the sources of uncertainty, that create risk, that require estimating to increase the probability of project success.