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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. Causes of project failure.

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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., 2014), and Jugdev et al., PMs must recognize the signs of stress and burnout as early as possible in the project’s life cycle. Dawood, Shariffah; Pinto , Mary Beth.,

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Enhanced due diligence in banking 

Productivity Land

Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), also known as Politically Exposed Person (PEP) screening, is a process that banks and other financial institutions must use to identify the risk associated with doing business with foreign individuals. The BSA was enacted in 1970 and amended in 2001 and 2006.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Managment Processes. Project Governance. Making the Impossible Possible: Applying Heliotropic Abundance for creating Program and Project Management Processes. Event-Based Scheduling , 10 November 2006. Product & Process Development Kaizen , LPPDE, Denver, Colorado, April 21-23, 2008. Basis of Estimate Process.

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Emergent Change – Making Sense of a Messy Environment

Tony Adams

Organisational change is not a linear process or one-off event; it is continuous, open ended, messy, unpredictable and cumulative. Emergent change processes are a useful way to think about project delivery in a fluid change environment, particularly where we cannot anticipate and assess all change variables in advance.

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Emergent Change – Making Sense of a Messy Environment

Tony Adams

Organisational change is not a linear process or one-off event; it is continuous, open ended, messy, unpredictable and cumulative. Emergent change processes are a useful way to think about project delivery in a fluid change environment, particularly where we cannot anticipate and assess all change variables in advance.

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Project Management, Performance Measures, and Statistical Decision Making

Herding Cats

I work in the Software Intensive System of Systems domains in Aerospace, Defense, Enterprise IT (both commercial and government) applying Agile, Earned Value Management, Productive Statistical Estimating (both parametric and Monte Carlo), Risk Management, and Root Cause Analysis with a variety of capabilities. A Few References and Resources