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Verhoef, Science of Computer Programming, Volume 74, Issues 11–12, November 2009, Pages 934-988. The Cone of Uncertainty is a useful approach to defining the expected range of uncertainty at specific stages in a project. MORE
PRINCE2:2009: The Launch Please be patient with the video: it takes a while to load. Do you think that your project should have a ‘launch’ event? MORE
The financial slow down of 2008 -2009 saw its share of cancelled projects in Dubai. I have just returned from the Dubai International Project Management Forum ( DIPMF ). It was a very enjoyable and impressive conference, focussed on innovation in project management. MORE
The Influence of the Concept of Capability-based Management on the Development of the Systems Engineering Discipline Elena Irina Neaga, Michael Henshaw and Yi Yue, 7 th Annual Conference on Systems Engineering Research 2009 (CSER 2009). MORE
When it comes to reporting project status, project managers have to make tough decisions about what to report, when to report it, and how to report it. These decisions are more challenging during crisis situations, when careful crisis communication becomes a very sensitive component of any status reporting. You feel the sensitive nature of crisis. Leadership Mindset MORE
Steve Jolly, Albuquerque, New Mexico June 1, 2009. There are thousands of ways to fail. most have not been explored — Dr. Steve Jolly, IEEE Fourth International Conference of System of Systems Engineering in “System of Systems in Space Exploration: Is Software Broken?”, MORE
If there is one thing I learned from leading complex projects, over the last few years, it is that self confidence remains the foundation of successful project leadership. Without self confidence, it does not matter how well we know our project management processes, as we may not have the courage to make the tough calls, Leadership Mindset MORE
7] "Decision Making Under Uncertainty: Think Clearly, act Decisively and Feel Confident - Unilever's Story," Sven Roden, 2009 Palisade Conference, Risk Analysis, Applications, and Training, 21-22 October 2009. . MORE
A project should never be approved without an official sponsor, who is willing to lobby and fight for it. Unfortunately, there are still many organizations that don’t have a decent project governance process for project selection and approval. As project managers, we get too excited about new projects that we sometimes start work without a. Tools & Techniques MORE
This short video shows Project Managers a simple setup of SharePoint to organize project documentation. I used this same configuration on a recent project and it worked really well. It is a very basic setup using SharePoint built-in document and list management features. Please leave a comment below and let me know how you are using SharePoint in your. Tools & Techniques MORE
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I started this site—primarily as a blog—back in 2009. I wanted to speak my mind about all things digital project management. I did, and it led to a lot of great conversations, connections, and advancements in my career. MORE
2009. I declared 2009 the year of the Office Goddess and I wrote a series of posts about how to excel at work. In case you’ve only just stumbled across this blog, this year I’m celebrating 10 years of blogging about project management. MORE
In 2009 Ken Schwaber left Scrum Alliance to build his own Agile certification, PSM (Professional Scrum Master), at scrum.org. You want to embrace Agile as part (or maybe all) of your Project Management practice. MORE
We spend so much of our time preparing for the success of our project but we hardly invest any time in preparing ourselves for coping with the aftermath of failure. Yet, it is inevitable that some of our projects will fail, no matter how much efforts we personally invest in them. The reality is that. Mindset MORE
40 Deliverables Based Planning: Providing Actional Information to the Program Manager , 11th Annual Rocky Mountain Project Management Symposium, 2009. Increasing the Probability of Success , Dallas MPUG, May 6th, 2009. MORE
Finally, there has been a whole book dedicated to hidden vacancies called The Invisible Candidate by Anthony Haley , it was published back in 2009 but I’ve still not read a book like it that gets close. MORE
So for Peter ‘The Lazy Project Manager’ Taylor to be selected as previously covered (Amsterdam 2009, Milan 2010, Washington 2010, Dallas 2011) means 1 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 which gives us an 81 to 1 probability, I am quite liking those odds, put me down for ten pounds, it is a reasonable gamble. MORE
Welcome to 2009: Year of the Office Goddess This entry is part 1 of 13 in the series Office GoddessThis year I thought I’d have a theme running through my blog. I have one word for you today: Transitions. How am I only realising this now? MORE
1, 2009. Agile process Smell and Root Cause Analysis,” Dave Nicolette, International Conference on Agile Processes and Extreme Programing in Software Engineering, 2009. MORE
In 2009, I did a series of posts on Work Performance Information, Work Performance Measurements and Performance Reports, highlighting how the PMBOK® Guide, Fourth Edition was utterly confusing. Commonly Confused Concepts Executing Monitoring and Controlling PMBOK Process Groups Study Notes MORE
The last change, in 2009, had quite a big overhaul, but what about this one? “The 2009 version of the PRINCE2 guidance devoted an entire chapter to tailoring, but it came towards the end of the guidance. Axelos announced that there will be a new update to PRINCE2 later this year. MORE
When Waze , the traffic and navigation app, came out in 2009 I did not understand why it was needed. At the time, there was an abundance of personal navigation devices (PND) that were by far more efficient than traditional paper maps. I could not understand why another such device was needed, let alone one that required constant access to the internet. Today, Waze is the world’s largest community based traffic and navigation app. MORE
The process of making a decision involves three elements: values, alternatives, and facts (Buede, 2009). [1]. Risk Management is how Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. There are two kinds of uncertainty on all projects, no matter the domain, including software development projects. MORE
The PMCamp movement was conceived in Austria in 2009 by Stefan Hagen. This article, Behind The Scenes At PMCamp Barcelona , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. The only foreign holiday my boys have been on was to PMI EMEA in Barcelona (I take them to all the good places!). MORE
Agile Conference 2009, IEEE. . [4] MORE
A popular toss off aphrase in some agile circles is process reduces agility. This is course is stated in the absence of any domain or context. MORE
How Many Licks: or how to estimate damn near anything , Aaron Santos, Running Press, 2009. The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. When it is suggested that estimating is hard, of no value, and unnecessary, always ask what principle is used to support that claim? Don't hear one? Then it's likely just a personal anecdote made without any principles. . MORE
Developing new habits takes time (on average 66 days according to research from Lally et al, 2009) so stick with it and you will start to see the results you’re looking for. >>Arras I’d like to focus on my self-development this year, especially on the leadership side. Where would you recommend I start? With the leadership side of the Talent Triangle it’s all these behavioural skills like influencing, negotiation, team building and so on. MORE
August 28, 2009. In the workforce, everyone receives an annual performance review—even horror icons like Michael Myers. Since 1978, Michael Myers has demonstrated his perseverance in pursuing his sister, Laurie Strode, nearly a dozen times! MORE
In January 2009, we started to develop the product. By July 2009, I remember talking to my co-founders and saying, “Well, the world didn’t end. During 2009, we were building the product. MORE
Transitioning from individual contributor to project manager is one of the hardest phases of one’s career, especially for those of us with a technical background. The habits and behaviors that made us successful in the past are unlikely to make us successful as project managers. Often, these become blind spots that we have to learn. Mindset MORE
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Susan Stamm: Superstar Press, 2009. Scott Berkun: O’Reilly Media, 2009. . Project teams communicate and collaborate by default, don’t they? Erm, no. That certainly hasn’t been the case for all the teams I have worked on. MORE
I seem to have been reading this blog forever, so I was surprised to see his archive only goes back to 2009. When we did our roundup of the 50 best Project Management Blogs in 2017 it quickly became one of our most popular posts. You folks do like reading about project management! MORE
Tim Menzies, Steve Williams, Oussama Elrawas, Daniel Baker, Barry Boehm, Jairus Hihn, Karen Lum, and Ray Madachy, Software Process Improvement And Practice, (2009). Magne Jorgensen and Barry Boehm, IEEE Software, March-April, 2009. MORE
an exact replica of a submission that gave me the opportunity to speak at PMI events in Amsterdam and Sao Paulo in 2009, at Project Zone in Budapest 2010 and at a number of other sessions around Europe. MORE
and best wishes for 2009. It’s been an incredible year, and with 2017 shaping up to be another 12 months of political and social change, I want to wish you the best of the season for what is traditionally a very tolerant and forgiving time. MORE
In a recent role, I had the opportunity to review the lessons submitted by teams running large, complex projects and programs and found that over 90% of what was being captured and shared was of low or no value. MORE
A now-famous 2009 research study by Stanford University put students through three tests, each designed to highlight what multitaskers were better at than people who didn’t routinely multitask in a multimedia environment. MORE
Jack Risos obtained his PMP certificate in 2009. When I first wrote Collaboration Tools for Project Managers the publishers put ‘Elizabeth Harrin, PMP’ on the cover. MORE
The workplace today is changing rapidly; according to Google Trends , searches for “open office” in the United States peaked all the way back in 2009 and BYOD (bring your own device) reached its apex in 2014. MORE
2009 Related Topics Guerrilla Project Management
DECEMBER 31, 2009
When it comes to reporting project status, project managers have to make tough decisions about what to report, when to report it, and how to report it. These decisions are more challenging during crisis situations, when careful crisis communication becomes a very sensitive component of any status reporting. You feel the sensitive nature of crisis. Leadership Mindset
Guerrilla Project Management
DECEMBER 30, 2009
This short video shows Project Managers a simple setup of SharePoint to organize project documentation. I used this same configuration on a recent project and it worked really well. It is a very basic setup using SharePoint built-in document and list management features. Please leave a comment below and let me know how you are using SharePoint in your. Tools & Techniques
Guerrilla Project Management
DECEMBER 26, 2009
We spend so much of our time preparing for the success of our project but we hardly invest any time in preparing ourselves for coping with the aftermath of failure. Yet, it is inevitable that some of our projects will fail, no matter how much efforts we personally invest in them. The reality is that. Mindset
Guerrilla Project Management
DECEMBER 23, 2009
If there is one thing I learned from leading complex projects, over the last few years, it is that self confidence remains the foundation of successful project leadership. Without self confidence, it does not matter how well we know our project management processes, as we may not have the courage to make the tough calls, Leadership Mindset
Guerrilla Project Management
NOVEMBER 26, 2009
A project should never be approved without an official sponsor, who is willing to lobby and fight for it. Unfortunately, there are still many organizations that don’t have a decent project governance process for project selection and approval. As project managers, we get too excited about new projects that we sometimes start work without a. Tools & Techniques
Guerrilla Project Management
NOVEMBER 23, 2009
Transitioning from individual contributor to project manager is one of the hardest phases of one’s career, especially for those of us with a technical background. The habits and behaviors that made us successful in the past are unlikely to make us successful as project managers. Often, these become blind spots that we have to learn. Mindset
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Girl's Guide to PM
NOVEMBER 12, 2018
Susan Stamm: Superstar Press, 2009. Scott Berkun: O’Reilly Media, 2009. . Project teams communicate and collaborate by default, don’t they? Erm, no. That certainly hasn’t been the case for all the teams I have worked on.
Arras People
JANUARY 4, 2019
Developing new habits takes time (on average 66 days according to research from Lally et al, 2009) so stick with it and you will start to see the results you’re looking for. >>Arras I’d like to focus on my self-development this year, especially on the leadership side. Where would you recommend I start? With the leadership side of the Talent Triangle it’s all these behavioural skills like influencing, negotiation, team building and so on.
Brett Harned
SEPTEMBER 8, 2015
I started this site—primarily as a blog—back in 2009. I wanted to speak my mind about all things digital project management. I did, and it led to a lot of great conversations, connections, and advancements in my career.
Girl's Guide to PM
SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
2009. I declared 2009 the year of the Office Goddess and I wrote a series of posts about how to excel at work. In case you’ve only just stumbled across this blog, this year I’m celebrating 10 years of blogging about project management.
Herding Cats
JANUARY 31, 2018
Steve Jolly, Albuquerque, New Mexico June 1, 2009. There are thousands of ways to fail. most have not been explored — Dr. Steve Jolly, IEEE Fourth International Conference of System of Systems Engineering in “System of Systems in Space Exploration: Is Software Broken?”,
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Girl's Guide to PM
DECEMBER 21, 2016
and best wishes for 2009. It’s been an incredible year, and with 2017 shaping up to be another 12 months of political and social change, I want to wish you the best of the season for what is traditionally a very tolerant and forgiving time.
Girl's Guide to PM
OCTOBER 30, 2018
Jack Risos obtained his PMP certificate in 2009. When I first wrote Collaboration Tools for Project Managers the publishers put ‘Elizabeth Harrin, PMP’ on the cover.
Deep Fried Brain
FEBRUARY 2, 2014
In 2009, I did a series of posts on Work Performance Information, Work Performance Measurements and Performance Reports, highlighting how the PMBOK® Guide, Fourth Edition was utterly confusing. Commonly Confused Concepts Executing Monitoring and Controlling PMBOK Process Groups Study Notes
Arras People
APRIL 10, 2017
The last change, in 2009, had quite a big overhaul, but what about this one? “The 2009 version of the PRINCE2 guidance devoted an entire chapter to tailoring, but it came towards the end of the guidance. Axelos announced that there will be a new update to PRINCE2 later this year.
Herding Cats
OCTOBER 30, 2018
The Influence of the Concept of Capability-based Management on the Development of the Systems Engineering Discipline Elena Irina Neaga, Michael Henshaw and Yi Yue, 7 th Annual Conference on Systems Engineering Research 2009 (CSER 2009).
Kiron Bondale
FEBRUARY 11, 2018
In a recent role, I had the opportunity to review the lessons submitted by teams running large, complex projects and programs and found that over 90% of what was being captured and shared was of low or no value.
LiquidPlanner
OCTOBER 18, 2018
August 28, 2009. In the workforce, everyone receives an annual performance review—even horror icons like Michael Myers. Since 1978, Michael Myers has demonstrated his perseverance in pursuing his sister, Laurie Strode, nearly a dozen times!
Girl's Guide to PM
JANUARY 4, 2017
Welcome to 2009: Year of the Office Goddess This entry is part 1 of 13 in the series Office GoddessThis year I thought I’d have a theme running through my blog. I have one word for you today: Transitions. How am I only realising this now?
Herding Cats
MARCH 17, 2019
Deliverables Based Planning: Providing Actional Information to the Program Manager , 11th Annual Rocky Mountain Project Management Symposium, 2009. Increasing the Probability of Success , Dallas MPUG, May 6th, 2009.
Girl's Guide to PM
JULY 31, 2017
The PMCamp movement was conceived in Austria in 2009 by Stefan Hagen. This article, Behind The Scenes At PMCamp Barcelona , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. The only foreign holiday my boys have been on was to PMI EMEA in Barcelona (I take them to all the good places!).
MavenLink
OCTOBER 5, 2017
In January 2009, we started to develop the product. By July 2009, I remember talking to my co-founders and saying, “Well, the world didn’t end. During 2009, we were building the product.
Arras People
APRIL 13, 2016
Finally, there has been a whole book dedicated to hidden vacancies called The Invisible Candidate by Anthony Haley , it was published back in 2009 but I’ve still not read a book like it that gets close.
Herding Cats
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
7] "Decision Making Under Uncertainty: Think Clearly, act Decisively and Feel Confident - Unilever's Story," Sven Roden, 2009 Palisade Conference, Risk Analysis, Applications, and Training, 21-22 October 2009. .
The Lazy Project Manager
JUNE 24, 2016
an exact replica of a submission that gave me the opportunity to speak at PMI events in Amsterdam and Sao Paulo in 2009, at Project Zone in Budapest 2010 and at a number of other sessions around Europe.
Girl's Guide to PM
JUNE 22, 2016
PRINCE2:2009: The Launch Please be patient with the video: it takes a while to load. Do you think that your project should have a ‘launch’ event?
Paymo App
DECEMBER 14, 2015
A now-famous 2009 research study by Stanford University put students through three tests, each designed to highlight what multitaskers were better at than people who didn’t routinely multitask in a multimedia environment.
The Lazy Project Manager
MAY 5, 2016
So for Peter ‘The Lazy Project Manager’ Taylor to be selected as previously covered (Amsterdam 2009, Milan 2010, Washington 2010, Dallas 2011) means 1 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 which gives us an 81 to 1 probability, I am quite liking those odds, put me down for ten pounds, it is a reasonable gamble.
Leading Answers
NOVEMBER 27, 2017
The financial slow down of 2008 -2009 saw its share of cancelled projects in Dubai. I have just returned from the Dubai International Project Management Forum ( DIPMF ). It was a very enjoyable and impressive conference, focussed on innovation in project management.
Herding Cats
DECEMBER 16, 2017
How Many Licks: or how to estimate damn near anything , Aaron Santos, Running Press, 2009. The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. When it is suggested that estimating is hard, of no value, and unnecessary, always ask what principle is used to support that claim? Don't hear one? Then it's likely just a personal anecdote made without any principles. .
Herding Cats
OCTOBER 27, 2016
The process of making a decision involves three elements: values, alternatives, and facts (Buede, 2009). [1]. Risk Management is how Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. There are two kinds of uncertainty on all projects, no matter the domain, including software development projects.
Resource Guru
MARCH 4, 2019
The workplace today is changing rapidly; according to Google Trends , searches for “open office” in the United States peaked all the way back in 2009 and BYOD (bring your own device) reached its apex in 2014.
Herding Cats
OCTOBER 24, 2018
1, 2009. Agile process Smell and Root Cause Analysis,” Dave Nicolette, International Conference on Agile Processes and Extreme Programing in Software Engineering, 2009.
Herding Cats
OCTOBER 5, 2018
Verhoef, Science of Computer Programming, Volume 74, Issues 11–12, November 2009, Pages 934-988. The Cone of Uncertainty is a useful approach to defining the expected range of uncertainty at specific stages in a project.
Online PM Courses
NOVEMBER 18, 2018
I seem to have been reading this blog forever, so I was surprised to see his archive only goes back to 2009. When we did our roundup of the 50 best Project Management Blogs in 2017 it quickly became one of our most popular posts. You folks do like reading about project management!
Herding Cats
OCTOBER 15, 2017
A popular toss off aphrase in some agile circles is process reduces agility. This is course is stated in the absence of any domain or context.
Online PM Courses
SEPTEMBER 16, 2018
In 2009 Ken Schwaber left Scrum Alliance to build his own Agile certification, PSM (Professional Scrum Master), at scrum.org. You want to embrace Agile as part (or maybe all) of your Project Management practice.
Herding Cats
DECEMBER 3, 2017
Tim Menzies, Steve Williams, Oussama Elrawas, Daniel Baker, Barry Boehm, Jairus Hihn, Karen Lum, and Ray Madachy, Software Process Improvement And Practice, (2009). Magne Jorgensen and Barry Boehm, IEEE Software, March-April, 2009.
Clarizen
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
When Waze , the traffic and navigation app, came out in 2009 I did not understand why it was needed. At the time, there was an abundance of personal navigation devices (PND) that were by far more efficient than traditional paper maps. I could not understand why another such device was needed, let alone one that required constant access to the internet. Today, Waze is the world’s largest community based traffic and navigation app.
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