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Why do projects fail? (Includes examples!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The Airbus A380 was due to take to the skies in 2006. Instead, tax payers have footed the bill. The Channel Tunnel construction project saw its budget rise from £4.8 billion to £10.9 The international team did not use compatible design software which led to snowballing problems. There are many factors that contribute to project failure.

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

Scrum.org

Kozlowski & Ilgen (2006) describe this reciprocity as “process begets structure, which in turn guides process”. Wang et al (2006) studied software teams tasked with ERP implementations and found that cohesive teams performed significantly better than less-cohesive teams. In turn, this facilitates further collaboration. Bradley et.

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In-Depth: How Scrum Motivates Teams Through Goals And Autonomy

Scrum.org

We are still so embedded in the leftovers of the mechanical perspective that originated during the Industrial Revolution, that it takes time to adjust our eyes and see beyond structure (Morgan, 2006). Autonomy : the autonomy that people have to schedule and perform their work as they see fit, including the process by which to execute it.

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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., is Senior Executive Director at the International Institute for Learning (IIL). 2014), and Jugdev et al., Richmond, A., Skitmore, M., 37 (5), 5 – 16.

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PMI’s Pulse of the Profession 2020: Creating a Future-Oriented Project Management Culture

Inloox

The Project Management Institute (PMI) has been conducting surveys, questioning international organizations and project managers on a regular basis since 2006. For this year's edition of the report, PMI interviewed around 4000 project management specialists, executives and employees from a wide range of industries and countries.

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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

ProjectManager.com

As with anything in project management, the scrum methodology needs people to be executed. In 2006, Sutherland created Scrum, Inc. , Scrum Roles. For this purpose it defines three roles, a scrum master, a product owner and a development team, made up of several team members. and continues to teach the Certified Scrum courses.

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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

If, for some reason, the project was stopped or interrupted part-way through execution, there may still be a valuable partial product to use. I wrote about these ideas when I started blogging in 2006 as  Risk Profile Graphs. Taking an economic view of decision making has a couple of advantages.

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