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Project Management and Leadership – can you have one without the other?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Project management is a field that is becoming increasingly valued within both large and small organizations – our project management training has never been so much in demand! Companies tend to adopt a project management method such as PRINCE2® to ensure that everyone works to the same framework. So what are the differences?

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IT Governance: Definitions, Frameworks and Planning

ProjectManager.com

At its base level, IT governance is one or multiple processes that enable the IT staff to better manage risk and operate at its most efficient to the benefit of the organization on the whole. If you ask the business world, IT governance is all about managing performance for efficiency. But if you were to ask academia?

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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. Technology was one of the least likely reasons for project failure.

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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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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. Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ?

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A Quick Guide to User Story Mapping

ProjectManager.com

He literally wrote the book about it, It’s All in How You Slice It , which came out in 2005. The idea of a user story as it applies here comes from software development and product management. ” The role would be project manager, the feature capability would be printing, and the benefit would be reviewing the chart on the wall.

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Burnout in Project Management

The IIL Blog

Stress and burnout have been recognized as serious project management problems for years, but until recently companies have been reluctant to face the problems head on. Some project managers thrive on stress and seem to avoid burnout. There is risk that burnout can spread to the entire team if not identified and controlled.