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Why do projects fail? (Includes examples!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The ones that hit the papers are often public sector projects because their audits and budgets are more open to scrutiny. It also cost ten times more than the original budget, finally coming in at £430 million. The planned spa complex to boost tourism in Bath was originally budget at £13.5 billion to £10.9

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What Makes Organisations Fail to Execute Their Strategy?

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

Maybe by some magical process of osmosis? How do they respond when budgets are changed? Is it all part of a global, coherent aligned process, all pulling together, or is it a mish-mash result of perceived priorities, local constraints, cultures, and ways of doing things? Executives should ensure strong governance.

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Fallacy of the Day

Herding Cats

Project Controls are Management Actions, either preplanned to achieve the desired result, or taken as a corrective measure prompted by the monitoring process. In the Project Controls paradigm, Value is a measurable attribute of the project controls process - a Closed Loop Control measure. INCOSE-TP-2005-020-10.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Project Risk Management: A Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process and Decision Tree Approach,” Prasanta Kumar Dey, Cost Engineering , Vol. Lessons Learned from Real World Application of the Bow-Tie Method,” Steve Lewis and Kris Smith, 6 th Global Congress on Process Safety , American Institute of Chemical Engineers, March 22?24,

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Project Risk Management: A Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process and Decision Tree Approach,” Prasanta Kumar Dey, Cost Engineering , Vol. Lessons Learned from Real World Application of the Bow-Tie Method,” Steve Lewis and Kris Smith, 6 th Global Congress on Process Safety , American Institute of Chemical Engineers, March 22?24,

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Book Review: Corporate Confidential

Project Management Hacks

In her excellent 2005 book, “Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn’t Want You to Know—and What to Do About Them, “Cynthia Shapiro shares fifty secrets for corporate career success. If you happen to work in government or a medium size company, there is still much great material. Flexibility.

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq

Herding Cats

The Measure that is modeled in the Cone the variable is the Quantitative basis of a control process that establishes the goal for the performance measure. With this paradigm we have logically connected project management processes with Control System processesIf the variances, created by uncertainty going outside the UCL and LCL.