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Why do projects fail? (Includes examples!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here are some high-profile failed projects: Following an internal review, Multiplex, the Australian development company responsible for the reconstruction of the Wembley Stadium, became aware that costs for the project were escalating to the point that the company would make a loss of £750 million on the project. billion to £10.9

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100+ Tech Conferences and Events to Attend in Europe 2020

Teamweek

If you want to go to one tech conference almost every week – we’ve got you covered. Tech conferences are where we gather and find inspiration. . The best annual tech conferences in Europe in 2020. Europe in 2020 promises to be a rich landscape for conferences. Our entire team at Toggl is remote. DLD Conference.

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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. For example, a user story might be written like this, “As a project manager, I want to print out my Gantt chart, so I can review it regularly on my office wall.” Overly Technical. So, it’s time to prioritize. Prioritization.

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80% of communication is non-verbal

Scrum.org

In light of the new normal and the last 20 years of technological progress, we need to re-define co-location as we no longer need to be in the same room as each other to get the 80% of communication that is non-verbal. If you are unable to use the camera due to bandwidth it may be better to attend an in-person event.

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Thinking By Sprinting: What Cognitive Science Tells Us About Why Scrum Works

Scrum.org

Developing a new product requires understanding of the users, of the technologies involved and what makes something valuable (or not). Although our brain is a marvel of evolution, it has not evolved to excel at the kind of knowledge work (Davenport, 2005) that we actually do most of the time. Limitations of our working memory.

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PERT Guide For Project Managers and Productivity Gurus

nTask

However, we decided to dedictate this weak to Project Evaluation and Review Technique. Steps in the PERT Planning Process. This is a straight forward process for most project managers and allows them to efficiently employ project resources. Introduction. 1. Identifying Activities and Milestones. Time is the only variable.

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What’s the Scope of a Unit Test?

Leading Agile

I’ve seen unit tests that cover an entire executable, a collection of collaborating objects, an end-to-end transaction, an entire batch jobstream, a series of steps in an ETL process, and all kinds of other things that are of large scope and that have lots of tightly-coupled dependencies. ” Sorry if that was too technical.