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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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Practical Fibonacci: A Beginner's Guide to Relative Sizing

Scrum.org

A traditional or Waterfall software development lifecycle includes a long and detailed planning period to define requirements before beginning development. In an Agile approach, the developers only know enough to get started–they don’t know everything needed to complete an item. 2006, Jørgensen and Grimstad).

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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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Systems Thinking in Organizational Coaching

Scrum.org

It is located in the neocortex and developed relatively recently. In the context of a product development it might refer to poor performance of the product group or a business unit, deteriorating revenues, outgoing quality etc. A software development effort is always a system! Systems Thinking in Organizations.

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Return On Invested Capital Definition for Strategic Project Managers

The Strategic Project Manager

Return On Invested Capital, or ROIC, is a common metric used as an input for developing strategy, selecting projects, and measuring project, program, and business performance. Return on Invested capital can be defined in some slightly different ways, but they all seem to converge on one general meaning. The Value of ROIC In Practice.

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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

ProjectManager.com

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. The bad news, it’s hard to master. It stresses accountability and is an iterative progress towards a well-defined goal.

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In-Depth: Stable Or Fluid Teams? What Does The Science Say?

Scrum.org

Recently, the concept of “fluid teams”, “dynamic reteaming” or “ad-hoc teaming” has gained traction in the Agile community. Although the concept has many different definitions, a characteristic they share is that members move in and out of a team during its lifetime. The need for fluid teams.