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Why do projects fail? (Includes examples!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The Scottish Parliament may well have been over budget and delayed, but it was a success in the eyes of the may when the innovative building, designed by Enric Miralles, won the Stirling prize for architecture in 2005. The Scottish Parliament building. There are other issues at play that can cause your project to fail.

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Burnout in Project Management

The IIL Blog

2005) Work & Stress. The focus was on burnout in people who were working. Since that time, models have been created to measure levels of burnout [Maslach and Jackson (1981), and Kristensen et al. 2014), and Jugdev et al., DOI: 10.1108/IJMPB-02-2017-0020. Kristensen , Tage S.; Borritz, Marianne; Villadsen, Ebbe; Christensen, Karl B.

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What Makes Organisations Fail to Execute Their Strategy?

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

Executives should ensure strong governance. Strong project portfolio management and strong project management are underpinned by strong governance. Strong governance provides ongoing quality assurance that we are performing the right projects and performing projects right. Academy of Management Executive 2005. [4]

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What is IT Service Management?

The IIL Blog

As governments and organisations began to utilise IT to run their organisations, the concepts of ‘services’ began to evolve. ITIL was partly in response to the UK government’s desire to standardise how we deliver IT services and became the de-facto approach to what became known as ITSM.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Governance (#Governance). Six Business System Rule - defines the assessment of the integrated business systems for Federal procurement and their integrity in providing information to the Government contracting office. . Putting these guides and BOK's to work for the benefit of the enterprise is the role of Project Governance.

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What's Missing from the Agile Software Development Paradigm

Herding Cats

To succeed, we must blend technical leadership and systems management into complete systems engineering. Agile Alliance [6] "Technical Measurement Guide, Gary Roedler and Cheryl Jones, INCOSE-TP-2003-020-01 , December 2005. [7] Anything less results in systems not worth having or fail to function or perform. [3], 81-100, 2009. [4]

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Agile Unplugged: EP01 | Mike Cottmeyer and Brian Sondergaard

Leading Agile

And in those days, so if this was 2004, 2005, something in that kind of range, in those days, then, you know, for the most part, Agile was still maybe one team of six, or eight, or 10. A couple years ago, I had somebody working with me on the leadership team, and I guess I was being a particular jerk that week or something.

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