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Zombie Projects and How to Kill Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

One of the first things that project managers learn on training courses is that a project has a start, a middle and an end. Don’t be the project manager that lets a project go on and on by accepting every scope change and picking up all the operational work as well as the requests for new functionality, additions or improvements.

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3 Mistakes Creative Agencies Make When Managing Retainers

Function Point

However, retainers can be dangerous to the agency if they aren’t managed correctly. Writing it down and entering it into your project management software later is not going to cut it. You absolutely must be tracking all of your time, in your agency management software, as you work! Managing Time & Resources.

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3 Mistakes Creative Agencies Make When Managing Retainers

Function Point

However, retainers can be dangerous to the agency if they aren’t managed correctly. Writing it down and entering it into your project management software later is not going to cut it. You absolutely must be tracking all of your time, in your agency management software, as you work! Managing Time & Resources.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

One of our clients, a retired USAF Col Program Manager at an NNSA Weapons Testing Site has a statement that is applicable here: If you lack academic basis and validated experience, your advice is simply unsubstantiated opinion without any basis in fact or principle. Flint, School of Management, Working Paper Series, September 2005.”.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. Andreou, 3rd Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Software Engineering Workshop , 7 October, 2010, Larnaca, Cyprus. 3, 2010, “Empirical Estimation of Hybrid Model: A Controlled Case Study,” Sadaf Un Nisa and M. 3, August 2012.