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Top PM 10 Articles of All Time

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In September 2007 I published a guide to why projects fail. At the time, the project was desperately short of cash. Gipsy Moth IV did make her planned round-the-world journey and continues to operate today , taking groups on breath-taking sea journeys. I still believe that all this is true.

2007 325
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Modularized megaprojects: Failure of Conventional Approaches (Part 1)

Inloox

Originally, the megaproject was to be completed in 2007 at costs of only 2 billion euros. After the start of construction in 2014, the Gigafactory was opened in 2016, and the planned costs were met. Tesla as a pioneer in the modularization of megaprojects In Germany, it is almost a tradition that large public projects fail.

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Get Motivated: 10 Motivational Speeches That Will Change Your Life

ProjectManager.com

Jim Carrey, Commencement Address, Maharishi University, 2014. That change was first on display at this speech for the graduates of Maharishi University in 2014. Bill Gates, Commencement Speech, Harvard, 2007. Brené Brown, the Power of Vulnerability, 2014. We’re all in it together. How’s that for motivating you to do good?

2008 324
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Agile: Past, Present, & Future. A Conversation with Agile Trainer, Rubin Jen.

International Institute for Learning

Rubin obtained his Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) designation in 2007 and has been teaching Agile and Scrum to enterprise organizations since 2014. I’m one of the few trainers who got the CSM certification early on [2007]. Rubin is currently assisting a major financial company in Toronto as an Agile Coach.

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GirlsGuideToPM: My Top 10 Articles of All Time

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In September 2007 I published a guide to why projects fail. At the time, the project was desperately short of cash. Gipsy Moth IV did make her planned round-the-world journey and continues to operate today , taking groups on breath-taking sea journeys. I still believe that all this is true.

2007 150
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Money is important, but it is not what drives me

Gunther Verheyen

It wasn’t when we gave up on my wife’s income to allow her to develop her creative talents (2007). It wasn’t when we bought a house we didn’t think we could afford because of the increasing wheelchair-dependence of our son (2014).

2001 67
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In-Depth: How Easily Biases Distort What We Believe (In The Workplace)

Scrum.org

People often fail to understand this fallacy because they underestimate how much of their behavior and their outcomes are influenced by randomness (Taleb, 2007). Survival bias happens when failures are ignored when you are evaluating if a process or decision is the right one (Schermer, 2014). How to reduce this bias. Survival bias.

2015 227