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How to Manage Fixed Date Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

LeRoy Ward, PMP , PgMP, and PMI Eric Jenett Project Management Excellence Award winner, when I asked him for his view. Work out the end date ignoring the fixed delivery date, even if you do have to crash your analysis time into a shorter period and use estimates with a greater degree of uncertainty than normal. But now what?

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Five Immutable Principles of Project Success , PMI Spring Seminar, 2021, Austin TX. Five Principles of Project Success , PMI, Northern Utah Chapter, Professional Development Day, 2012. Applying Deliverables Based Planning ® To Increase Our Probability of Success , PMI Fort Worth, Chapter Meeting, 15 July 2010.

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Reading List for the Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ? The difficulty of accurate size estimation is compounded especially at the time of inception when very little information is available.

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Waterfall Should Have Never Existed: Part 1

MPUG

Since about 2010, Agile was challenged to start providing solutions at the executive level within organizations. ran away with the main prize of getting the ear of C-level executives: PMI had tried for many years to get their ear after all. As you can see, a whole new cottage industry grew out of the ‘Agile’ movement.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

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. Five Immutable Principles of Digital Transformation Project Success - PMI San Diego Chapter , 11 July 2018. PMI Lakeshore Ontario Chapter , 27 October 2018.

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Vendor Showcase Recap: Making Light Work of Schedule Risk Analysis – By Barbecana

MPUG

Kyle: Today’s session is eligible for one PMI PDU in the technical category, and the MPUG activity code for claiming the session with PMI is on the screen now. John Owen: However, what I’m going to briefly show you now is that oftentimes, it’s really got nothing to do with poor estimates or execution.

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Vendor Showcase Recap: Making Light Work of Schedule Risk Analysis – By Barbecana

MPUG

Kyle: Today’s session is eligible for one PMI PDU in the technical category, and the MPUG activity code for claiming the session with PMI is on the screen now. John Owen: However, what I’m going to briefly show you now is that oftentimes, it’s really got nothing to do with poor estimates or execution.

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