Project Management Hacks

APRIL 28, 2016

Have you ever considered the public sector and government for your next career move? Governments face interesting problems and that means there are opportunities to deliver new projects. government to launching his own venture, GovLoop. My thanks to Winnie Liem and the PMI-SOC Government Community for introducing me to Steve.

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Tony Adams

APRIL 20, 2019

We talk a lot about Project Management structure, processes and practices – these are put forward as a way of providing stability and certainty. Shenhar and Dvir (2007) pose an interesting argument about innovation in a project management context. Governance, funding, risks, scope, timing, benefits, stakeholders.

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Tony Adams

APRIL 20, 2019

We talk a lot about Project Management structure, processes and practices – these are put forward as a way of providing stability and certainty. Shenhar and Dvir (2007) pose an interesting argument about innovation in a project management context. Governance, funding, risks, scope, timing, benefits, stakeholders.

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Innovation 2003 2007 Sustainability 40

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The program management processes should seek to reduce uncertainty in the variable of the project. If there is no process in place to reduce these variables, the probability of project success is reduced. 37–48, 2007. IT Risk Management. Here's a very short reading list for this topic (88 more items on Request). "A

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Root Cause is the fundamental initiating cause on a causal chain leading to a failure of a process which results in a recurrence of the problem. Root Cause Analysis is a systematic documented approach to arrive at the true Root Cause of the process problem. Gano, Atlas Books, 2007. 29 May 2013. 1/2, 2001, pp.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

This quote demonstrates a lack of understanding of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty and the processes and events that create uncertainty. There is naturally occurring variability from uncontrolled processes. The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project.

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

As governments and organisations began to utilise IT to run their organisations, the concepts of ‘services’ began to evolve. ITIL was partly in response to the UK government’s desire to standardise how we deliver IT services and became the de-facto approach to what became known as ITSM.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Project Controls are Management Actions, either preplanned to achieve the desired result, or taken as a corrective measure prompted by the monitoring process. In the Project Controls paradigm, Value is a measurable attribute of the project controls process - a Closed Loop Control measure. "On spec" is open loop control on value.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Unanticipated technical issues with alternative plans and solutions to maintain effectiveness.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Unanticipated technical issues with alternative plans and solutions to maintain effectiveness.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. This is done by active risk management, through probabalistic decision-making.

Technical Review 28

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Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

Uncertainty creates Risk. Risk management requires active reduction of risk. Misinterpretations of the “Cone of Uncertainty” in Florida during the 2004 Hurricane Season, Kenneth Broad, Anthony Leiserowitz, Jessica Weinkle, and Marissa Steketee, American Meteorological Society , May 2007. All risk comes from uncertainty.

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Take for example the deployment of an ERP system, the installation, and startup of a process control system, the release of a suite of embedded software controllers for a car, aircraft, petrochemical plant. Now To Risk Management. Risk is the effect of uncertainty of objectives.

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Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 12, 2021

They work closely with portfolio office managers to oversee all processes are in line with the objectives and all tasks are accomplished according to the requirements. . This type of knowledge covers the understanding of the processes, job duties of all employees, rules, market trends that are peculiar for this professional environment. .

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MPUG

JULY 1, 2020

This whole idea of inadequate baselining is some people might think it’s fraudulent, but in many ways, it’s self-fulfilling prophecy when it’s utilized so strongly as a governing agent in organizations. It isn’t heaven and earth, and your reputation will be better off in the process. It’s just baselining.

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Online PM Courses

JULY 23, 2018

It is no coincidence that the developers of the UK Government’s Project Management methodology, PRINCE (now, PRINCE2 ), chose the acronym they did, for their new methodology. PRINCE2 was updated in 2007 , by the way. Scoping your Project is a process of negotiating with a range of stakeholders. Click To Tweet.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Management Processes (#MP). Risk Management (#RM). Governance (#Governance). Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Management Processes. Table of Contents (Click the Name to go to Section).

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

MPUG

JULY 17, 2020

It’s a great way to brainstorm it to begin the planning process by breaking it down in more of top-down fashion. As far as this, the desktop client version of Microsoft Project, we are compatible with all versions, Project 98, Project 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2016, and 2019, so pretty much every version. Kyle: Great. Thanks Jim.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In a previous post, Why Johnny Can't Estimate , mentioned some resources for estimating, the principles of business and technical management that demand estimates be made to make decisions, and background on the sources of uncertainty, that create risk, that require estimating to increase the probability of project success.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 11, 2020

I’m sitting there as this relatively young project manager, teaching all these folks at the bank about Agile, right, and risk management and things. So 2007, maybe, wow. ” This is legitimately getting somebody who is running hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue to take this risk, right?

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

So start here to build your academic foundation, that can be put to work to build a foundation of validated experience of making estimates in the presence of uncertainty and protect yourself from fallacious claims that estimates are a waste, not needed, and produce bad resulting in the decision making process for those paying you to produce value.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The same process for estimating is applied to multi-billion dollar projects we work. And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . Here's some materials that provide the tools and processes needed to learn how to estimate. 1, January 2007.

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The IIL Blog

MAY 4, 2018

Because for the corporation, there is too much risk for corporate liability if they do not assign a certified professional and you will never know. Government contracts will require a certified project manager. Companies propose to government contracts because they are large and lucrative so you won’t get to lead those.

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