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7 Hidden dangers of project management (Or why even well-planned projects sometimes fail)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

During a company integration program, customer service levels dropped by 25-50% because the team management focused their efforts on reorganizing and changing employees’ roles and responsibilities, all with “the best of intentions”. For example, in June 2010 Chrysler merged with Fiat. So why do some projects crash to their doom?

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PMI Are some more equal than others?

The Lazy Project Manager

So what is my concern and why am I mentioning PMI? So what is my concern and why am I mentioning PMI? Well I’m not just focusing on PMI but the behaviour I am concerned about seems to be rather more prevalent within PMI and PMI Congresses than others. Let me explain. I go to project management conferences, a lot.

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10 Project Management Hacks Every Project Manager Should Know

The Squad Report

A KPMG survey of 100 businesses reported 70% of organizations faced at least one project failure in the year 2010 alone. An effective project manager is one who will always look for ways to streamline the project, team collaboration, and its outcomes. He/she creates a bond with the team members separate from deadlines and launch dates.

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Waterfall Should Have Never Existed: Part 1

MPUG

your project team). Banks have essentially been software developing organizations for a long time. This has led to a dramatic growth in software development projects and in the number of software project managers we’ve seen and will continue to see. I will explain how you can marry these two seemingly?opposite To manage-in (i.e.

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

Project Management Training & Certification. Keys to Project Success: 48% say the team’s technical skills. 26% say effective team communication. Lean & Test Driven Development (TDD) – 11%. Feature Development Driven – 9%. Dynamic Systems Development Method – 3%. Poor purchasing processes: 23%.

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Webinar Recap: Microsoft Project Do’s, Don’ts, and Cool Customizations

MPUG

PMI PDUs in the technical category and the MPUG activity code for claiming the session was on the screen now. Within your history, you can print or download your transcript, certificates of completion including the one for today. Once again, let’s see how bad it is, and there we can see it. There’s four assignments.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD). The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. But each method needs to be based on 5 Immutable principles to be successful, no matter the domain or context, PMI Spring Seminar , 2012, Austin TX.