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A History of PMI & Its Role in Project Management

ProjectManager.com

In 1969, in Philadelphia, Jim Snyder, of Smith, Kline & French Laboratories, and Gordon Davis, of the Georgia Institute of Technology, were having dinner and decided there was a need for an organization that offered project managers a forum to share information and discuss their industry. Currently, Mark Langley is the president of PMI.

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Team Management: The Key of to Success

International Institute for Learning

Managing a team is definitely something really difficult because in addition, for instance, to the technical complexity of the topic, there is the challenge to coordinate people with different personalities, knowledge, background and even culture with the purpose of making the team work in an efficient way. Schwaber, K. Hackman, J.

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Project Management Worker Engagement

The IIL Blog

The wage and salary activities for the assigned workers were the responsibility of their functional managers and project managers often had very little input if any in the performance review processes. Team members relied upon their functional managers for encouragement, support, and performance reviews. Schaufeli et al. Liao et al.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993.

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The 23 Best Project Management Books For Upgrading Your Career in 2020

Planio

Swipe to Unlock: The Primer on Technology and Business Strategy. Technical documentation. These books range from technical guides to quick catch-ups on the core principles of project management, from how to gather requirements and plan your timeline to communicating and inspiring your team. Author: Harvard Business Review.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

Jones and Stephen Cullum, arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.01621 (2019). Springer, Singapore, 2019. Categorical Variable Segmentation Model for Software Development Effort Estimation,” Petr Silhavy, Radek Silhavy, And Zdenka Prokopova, IEEE Access, 29 January 2019. & Zein, S., 9, Issue 3, No. 1, May 2012. 1809, 2013. “An