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The Functions of a Project Management Office

Project Pulse Journal

A well-implemented PMO can transform your project delivery process , ensuring that every project is set up for success from the start. A Project Management Office (PMO) is a centralized department within an organization that standardizes the governance of projects.

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Best PMI-ACP Exam Prep Books

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Instead, you would probably get more use out of investing your reading time in User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development (Mike Cohn). I would suggest it’s User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development by Mike Cohn. User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development by Mike Cohn.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Managment Processes. Software for Your Mind: Patterns and Anti-Patterns for Creating and Maintaining a Shared Vision. Nine Best Practices of Project Management , Software Program Managers Network (SPMN). Project Governance. The Nine "I's" of Program Success ," College of Performance Management. Flawless Execution.

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Project Management, Performance Measures, and Statistical Decision Making

Herding Cats

I work in the Software Intensive System of Systems domains in Aerospace, Defense, Enterprise IT (both commercial and government) applying Agile, Earned Value Management, Productive Statistical Estimating (both parametric and Monte Carlo), Risk Management, and Root Cause Analysis with a variety of capabilities.

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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

Business Analysis A process in which an individual identifies business needs, defines solutions and facilitates change to meet organizational goals. Business case An organization will develop a document to justify the investment in a project (i.e., process, policy, practices, perceptions, etc.) effectively and efficiently.

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Closed Loop Control and Granularity of the Estimating Process

Herding Cats

For software, this can be value produced (assuming we have a unit of measure for that value in the for of effectiveness, performance, key performance parameters, or technical performance measures ). DP6Jw is an overview of this process. Stochastic process control is the field of study.

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Connecting "What" with "How" - and the Failure to Understand the Principles of Systems Engineering and Systems Management

Herding Cats

It is applied through the application of systems engineering processes within a managed lifecycle working with a number of other management, engineering, and specialist disciplines. While traditionally applied to product development, systems engineering can also be applied to service and enterprise systems. The what of the project.