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Top PM 10 Articles of All Time

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I thought it was time to look back and see what the stand-out articles were over the years. Here are the top 15 articles year by year. By the way, I refer to La Défense as crummy in this article, but by the time I left I had come to appreciate the arch, the architecture and the little cafés hidden between the offices.

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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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Estimating Agile Projects.Or Not

Leading Answers

This article sets out to unravel some of it. For software projects following an agile approach, the team is often asked to estimate the development effort for stories in the backlog. Some software is knowable and can be estimated reliably. My Exposure to NoEstimates I should start by declaring which side of the debate I am on.

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Why Great (Scrum) Teams Have A Mind Of Their Own

Scrum.org

Most of us perceive and interpret a dark alley as a dangerous place due to the potential for robbery, and so we avoid them behaviorally. Butler et al, 2006, Tolin, 2010) are based on this approach (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT). Suppose for a moment that you’re going for a nightly stroll in an unknown city.

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GirlsGuideToPM: My Top 10 Articles of All Time

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I thought it was time to look back and see what the stand-out articles were over the years. Here are the top 10 articles year by year. By the way, I refer to La Défense as crummy in this article, but by the time I left I had come to appreciate the arch, the architecture and the little cafés hidden between the offices.

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Wrike Review- 10 facts you should know

Binfire

Wrike was funded in 2006 by Andrew Filev and has locations in California, Ireland, and Russia. . In this article, we cover what is good about this application, what is bad, facts you need to know before purchasing it, and how it stacks up against the competition. Why do I say you need a week or two to evaluate a software package?

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian