Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 29, 2021

Risks matter. That’s the point of risk management: thinking about what might go wrong before it does, so you can put a plan together to deal with it if it does. However, at the beginning of your project when your risk log is empty, it can be a bit of a challenge to think of all the stuff that might need to go on there.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 3, 2020

We aren’t managing projects now in the same way that people managed projects years ago. The approaches taken by many companies and professional bodies to managing projects are different now to when I first started out in the field in 2000ish. How long has project management been around? Technology.

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2008 Leadership Manufacturing PMI 355

Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ?

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Here are my collected works, presentations, briefings, journal papers, articles, white papers, and essays, used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've developed and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems domain. Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 3, 2016

This is a guest article by author Edoardo Binda Zane. If you are a project manager, making tough calls and decisions is part of your everyday life. Regardless of how much project management experience you have, at a certain point you will still want or need to make a decision as a team. The Group Decision Process.

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Underperforming Technical Team 2008 Energy Consulting 150

Epicflow Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

Successful project delivery is the main goal of project management efforts, but what does project success really mean? Read the article to learn more about these criteria, and which of them should be applied to assess the success of aerospace and defense projects. . They are vulnerable to risks, including cyberthreats. .

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Aerospace Technical Review 2008 Defining 52

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management: When Performance is Measured Performance Improves , Daniel Galaorath and Michael Evans , Auerbach, 2006. Estimating Software-Intensive Systems: Projects, Products, and Processes , Richard Stutzke, Addison-Wesley, 2005. Related articles. IT Risk Management.

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Software Developers Software Development Estimate 2006 46

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

And this is precisely the point: The Product Owner miraculously identifies what is the best way to proceed as a Scrum Team by managing the Product Backlog. Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Meanwhile, some ideas have gained buzzword status in the process, causing the occasional collateral damage along the way.

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Software Review Technical Review Cadence SCRUM 143

Herding Cats

JANUARY 8, 2018

When gaps in performance, benefits shortfalls, unanticipated cost, schedule, and performance variances, faulty products, or any undesirable outcome, blame the process, not people. 1] Apollo Root Cause Analysis: Effective Solutions to Everyday Problems Every Time, 3rd Edition, Dean Gano, Atlas Books, 2008. [2] Related articles.

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2008 2011 Manufacturing Estimate 34

MPUG

MARCH 28, 2021

Management stakeholders aren’t dedicated to the project, but they make key decisions about it. Management stakeholders share similar needs for project communication and can include customers, the project sponsor, a steering committee or leadership team, members of the change management board, functional managers, and so on.

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Planning Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Executing 90

Agilemania

MARCH 22, 2021

Project management has become an essential part of our fast-paced world. From small and medium to large scale, every business size depends on project management to successfully deliver their products and service. In recent times, there are multiple project management approaches available all around the world.

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Agile 2001 2008 Software Review 52

Teamweek

JUNE 8, 2021

If you’re struggling to attract top-quality graduates to your business, this article is for you. We’re going to dive deep into the state of the current graduate market, analyse the key challenges facing businesses right now before looking at ways you can improve your end-to-end graduate recruitment process. The Sourcing Process.

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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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Project Management Essentials

MARCH 31, 2019

This metric is attributed to Hammer and Champy’s 1993 classic, “Reengineering the Corporation” and is reinforced by a 2008 McKinsey survey of executives. In this article, I suggest that we use an agile-adaptive approach for our organizational change and transformation initiatives. We are open to possibilities.

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2008 Agile Initiating Executing 40

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The planned uncertainty not only needs to decrease over time passing, but this reduction diminishes any impacts of risk on the decision-making processes. That is an Immutable Principle of good project management. Remember Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. This letter states.

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Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

Traditional project management approaches, several of which are based on a strong belief in the cone of uncertainty, advocate stronger project control and greater planning. In that case, the competitor will win nearly every time, and the prize for “good” project management might be losing market share. If not, that's another issue.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Prentice-Hall, 1981. So the question is? -

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Prentice-Hall, 1981. So the question is? -

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Prentice-Hall, 1981. So the question is? -

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

MPUG

DECEMBER 23, 2020

And welcome to today’s MPUG webinar, the Project Recovery Process. This was a project recovery process. Like I said, I know this area very, very well, very passionate about it as a PMO director for many, many years and a PMO manager. And so that’s what I’ve done is I’ve put together that process.

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

Information Technology is a young industry with several even younger career paths, one of which is Information Technology Service Management (ITSM). LEAN processes emerged in 1991, with the Agile Manifesto launched by a group of software engineers in 2001. Service Integration and Management, aka SIAM, was developed in 2005.

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The IIL Blog

JUNE 28, 2018

. | Senior Executive Director for Project Management, IIL. According to management guru Peter Drucker, there are only two sources for growth: marketing and innovation [Drucker, 2008]. According to management guru Peter Drucker, there are only two sources for growth: marketing and innovation [Drucker, 2008].

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2020

A profession of a project manager has always been in demand and seems to be gaining momentum more and more. According to PMI’s Job Growth and Talent Gap in Project Management 2017-2027 , organizations’ need for project talent has significantly increased since their previous investigation in 2008. million project experts by 2027.

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Teamweek

JUNE 25, 2020

And, while Asana is a great tool for micro-managing work, more creative teams are looking for Asana alternatives that allow better freedom at work. In this article, you’ll learn about 30 alternatives to Asana that are easy to use and help creative teams collaborate better. 3 Project Management Features That Matter To Creative Teams.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Planning Development Team Review 97

Teamweek

MAY 21, 2020

Trello and Asana are two popular project management tools. Instead, both need to be evaluated based on: the size of your team, your project management workflow, and the tool’s onboarding time and ease of use. That’s what we’ll do in this article. Essential features in project management tools.

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2020 Planning Software Review 2011 52

Appfluence

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Jeff Bonforte who sold his company, Xobni, to Yahoo in 2008, learned this over time. Balance the Success Narrative with Potential Risks. Goldberg reminded the two that they should be careful how they manage success and expectations: There are two ways to crash a plane. Help the board Help You. Break the Meeting’s Frame.

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2008 Leadership Executing Risk Management 28

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 20, 2017

The sequence of the work processing can be any order: First in First out, Last in First out, or any other or even a random sequence in your workflow. What is the process? . What are the steps in the process? But what if we're trying to decide what throughput is needed for some process in the future. Related articles.

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Jez Lister

DECEMBER 17, 2014

This article is one of a series covering COTS – Commercials off the Shelf Lifecycle model methodology, also know as package software. In 2008 I started putting together an outline COTS methodology. Please feel free to add comments and link to this article via twitter, linkedin etc. So, here it is.

Software Review 40

Software Review Technical Review Finance Governance 40

Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

One of our clients, a retired USAF Col Program Manager at an NNSA Weapons Testing Site has a statement that is applicable here: If you lack academic basis and validated experience, your advice is simply unsubstantiated opinion without any basis in fact or principle. Flint, School of Management, Working Paper Series, September 2005.”.

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Estimate Software Review Software 2012 40

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. 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. . 3, August 2012. 400-407, 2009.

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