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Why Productivity in Project Businesses is Flatlining?

The Lazy Project Manager

If we look at this McKinsey & Company study , one of the main reasons stems from poor project management and the lack of technological innovation and adoption. Inadequate communication: When managing projects, establishing the right communication strategies ensures that all stakeholders are on the same page. The Way Forward.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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Why Identifying as a Project Business is Critical For Success

The Lazy Project Manager

Project Management as a Central Component of a Project Business. Oftentimes, people think managing a project and managing a project business are interchangeable. Project Management is something that a business does, regardless of the type of business it is. They’re not. Characteristics of Project Businesses.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. 3, March 2002. reducible and irreducible ?

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

They let you know whether you can go overspent or what risk mitigation actions are the right ones for this point in the project. Often an internal senior department manager, client account manager or supplier project manager/representative. Project manager: the person leading the project (you).

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Agile. Creativity. Innovation.

International Institute for Learning

2009), include eXtreme Programming (XP) (Beck and Fowler, 2001) and Scrum (Schwaber and Beedle, 2002). We can say the Agile methods have well-interpreted the so-called Copernican Revolution in management. How Does Agile Project Management support creative projects? The Copernican Revolution In Management. August 2002).

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A Quick Guide to Business Process Mapping

ProjectManager.com

A process approach to quality management, and how each process relates to the other processes in a business, is at the heart of business process mapping. There’s also compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 , also known as the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002.

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