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Without a Root Cause Analysis, No Corrective or Preventive Action is Credible - Part 1

Herding Cats

But before going further, let's establish the definitions we need to understand and apply Root Cause Analysis needed to discover the corrective and preventive actions to increase the probability of project success - especially Software Project Success. What factors lead to software project failure?” All for the want of a nail.

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What is IT Service Management?

The IIL Blog

Most of these roles were based on aspects of IT operation, such as mainframe operation and maintenance, which later evolved into software development and commercialisation. As IT became mainstream in the latter half of the 20 th century, so did several job roles within the industry.

2001 78
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The 23 Best Project Management Books For Upgrading Your Career in 2020

Planio

The best books for crafting your leadership qualities. True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable. Published date: 2008 (revised edition). Why you should read this: Project management (and especially project leadership) is more about people than processes.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Agile Software Development (#ASD). Those lessons are directly transferable to the management of software development teams. Parametric Project Monitoring and Control - Earned Value is an approach to Performance measurement for monitoring and controlling the progress of software development projects.

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Episode 183 –  My Team is Self-Organizing, What am I Supposed to Do? Agile Teams and the PM’s Role

Velociteach

Richard draws on a diverse background in software development, engineering, anthropology, design, and political science. His book “Behavior-Driven Development with Cucumber” was published in 2019. But we’re very excited to have Richard Lawrence and Peter Green from Humanizing Work join us. And I remember this.

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100+ Tech Conferences and Events to Attend in Europe 2020

Teamweek

In their words: Since its start-up in Oslo 2008, the Norwegian Developers Conference (NDC) quickly became one of Europe`s largest conferences for.NET & Agile development. In their words: The Biggest multitrack Tech Conference of the Netherlands for all software developers. NDC London. London, UK. January 27-31.