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How to Manage Project Scope Without Scope Creep (with examples)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Change control or change management is the process of managing unplanned but desired influences on the project. It’s the process of ensuring changes are properly evaluated and incorporated into project plans. Managing scope starts and ends with a robust change management process. Your company’s process may be slightly different.

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Understanding What is Quantitative Risk Analysis

Project Pulse Journal

A methodology that not only supports the identification of risks but quantifies them, thereby supporting a quantitative risk analysis process allowing for strategic decision-making. Meredith & Mantel, 2009). Consider the advantage of having a clear roadmap in the face of uncertainty.

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Basis of Estimating Software Development

Herding Cats

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? Software Sizing and Estimating: Mk II FPA , Charles Symons, John Wiley & Sons, 1991. Don't hear one?

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Getting to Know the PMBOK Guide 7th Edition

The IIL Blog

There was a big change in the Standard as the content shifted from being focused on Process Groups to project management principles. Previous editions of the PMBOK ® Guide organized content by Knowledge Areas and processes. This section presents information on Data Gathering and Analysis Methods, Estimating Methods.

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Managing Risk from Every Level of Your Organization

LiquidPlanner

How does the reconciliation of known and emerging risks impact the project team’s estimate of the remaining contingency plan? “A Macmillan, Discovery-Driven Growth: A Breakthrough Process to Reduce Risk and Seize Opportunity, Boston MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2009. Are there unexpected risks now emerging? McGrath and I.

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Agile forecasting techniques for the next decade

Scrum.org

More seriously, weather forecasts have helped us narrow our decision-making process. When dealing with uncertainty, and the weather holds a lot of uncertainty, forecasts are of value to narrow our decision-making process. I believe they have fallen short for the following reasons: They are based on estimates instead of historical data.

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The Psychology of Forecasting Uncertainty

LiquidPlanner

LiquidPlanner can help take the guesswork out of forecasting, seamlessly processing the knock-on effects of revised estimates, resource-leveling across related dependent tasks, and mitigating the impact of uncertainty in the most efficient way possible. . About the Author.

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