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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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Burnout in Project Management

The IIL Blog

Articles are now appearing addressing burnout specifically in a project management environment [Verma (1996), Haynes and Love (2004), Richmond and Skitmore (2006), Pinto et al., Techniques have been developed describing ways to recover all or part of the expected business value from a distressed project [Morais-Storz et al.,

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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.  Others go as planned, and others get replaced by higher-priority changes and never get developed at all.

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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

This article explains what a risk-adjusted backlog is, why they are useful, how to create one and how teams work with them. ' In deciding which feature to develop first, those with the highest economic value are selected. I wrote about these ideas when I started blogging in 2006 as  Risk Profile Graphs.

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The Must-Read Reading List for Project Communication and Collaboration

Rebel’s Guide to PM

. Project teams communicate and collaborate by default, don’t they? That certainly hasn’t been the case for all the teams I have worked on. Don’t assume your project team will know how (or even want to) communicate well and collaborate with each other. This book reminds us that conflict on teams is inevitable.

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How a growth mindset has helped in my journey to become a PST

Scrum.org

A growth mindset is a term coined by Carol Dweck in 2006 in her book mindset Mindset: The new Psychology of success to describe the underlying beliefs people have about learning and intelligence. In summary, the person with a growth mindset believe that new abilities can be developed through practice. . Embrace challenges. .

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INNER REALM Interview with Judith W. Umlas

International Institute for Learning

I am also the mother of two wonderfully challenging and interesting people, and the wife of 42 (now nearly 50) years of a delightful, ever seeking, and adorable man who is the co-author of a spiritual book for children, even though he is by profession an Excel Developer! Why did you write “The Power of Acknowledgment?”.

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