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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

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Managment Processes. Project Governance. Making the Impossible Possible: Applying Heliotropic Abundance for creating Program and Project Management Processes. Deliverables Based Planning: Providing Actional Information to the Program Manager , 11th Annual Rocky Mountain Project Management Symposium, 2009.

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

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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. Why Do Information Technology Projects Fail?” Lehtinen and Mika V.

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Top 10 Lean/ Kanban Books for IT, Software and Knowledge Work!

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Several good books have been written on Kanban and its application to various business processes, especially to Scrum, since David Anderson published his original Kanban “blue book”. hours, Published February 2nd, 2011 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform). hours Published January 12, 2009, by Modus Cooperandi Press).

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Risk Management Resources

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5, September/October 2011. Project Risk Management: A Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process and Decision Tree Approach,” Prasanta Kumar Dey, Cost Engineering , Vol. 5887, 2009. Norton, The Systems Engineering Process Office, MITRE Corporation, 6 June 1999. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. 3, March 2002.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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5, September/October 2011. Project Risk Management: A Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process and Decision Tree Approach,” Prasanta Kumar Dey, Cost Engineering , Vol. 5887, 2009. Norton, The Systems Engineering Process Office, MITRE Corporation, 6 June 1999. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. 3, March 2002.

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Reading List for the Cone of Uncertainty

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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. 1, January 2011. "A Verhoef, Science of Computer Programming, Volume 74, Issues 11–12, November 2009, Pages 934-988.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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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. Aleatory uncertainty is expressed as a process variability. First, let's establish a principle.

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