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Zombie Projects and How to Kill Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Zombie PM is a term I came up with in 2010 when I put together a project management alphabet. lack of governance. Government PMO,” says Derek Huether, an enterprise Agile coach and trainer. We had budget specialists, schedule specialists, earned value specialists, and even contract specialists.

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How to Navigate the Project Environment Even if You’re New to Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

Compliance and Governance Awareness of regulatory requirements and governance structures ensures that projects comply with legal standards and organizational policies. Compliance and governance are not optional. As a critical point in this article, stakeholders and informed decision-making go together.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

255, April 2010. 24, 2010. “A Problems with scoring methods and ordinal scales in risk assessment,” Douglas Hubbard and Dylan Evans, IBM Journal of Research and Development , 54(3):2, May 2010. 29 April 2010. Sensitivity analysis methods for uncertainty budgeting in system design,” Max M. 920, November 2004.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

255, April 2010. 24, 2010. “A Problems with scoring methods and ordinal scales in risk assessment,” Douglas Hubbard and Dylan Evans, IBM Journal of Research and Development , 54(3):2, May 2010. 29 April 2010. Sensitivity analysis methods for uncertainty budgeting in system design,” Max M. 920, November 2004.

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The 7 Habits of Successful Project Managers

ProjectManager.com

Your job is to determine the approach that will give you and your team the best chance of delivering your project safely, accountably, on time and to budget. Some goes to your governance tiers, your boss, client or sponsor, and some goes to your team and colleagues. But what you can control is your art in some of the governance roles.

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Agile Unplugged EP04 | Mike Cottmeyer and Matt Van Vleet

Leading Agile

So we first worked together, I guess it was probably back in like late 2009, 2010. But we were trying to help people figure out how to form teams and how to get backlogs and governance aligned and to be able to just even, conceptually get to the place that you could produce a working test and increment of software.

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq

Herding Cats

ASE’10, September 20–24, 2010, Antwerp, Belgium. . [8] And when you see these out of control situations, go find the Root Cause and generate the Corrective Act. . Air Force. [4] 4] Defense Acquisition Guide , Chapter 4, Systems Engineering , 15 May 2013. [5] 5] Program Managers Tool Kit , 16 th Edition, Defense Acquisition University. [6]