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How to Manage Fixed Date Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Weddings — in fact, event planners are excellent at managing fixed date projects because every event has a fixed date on which it will take place and the project to deliver the event has to be done on time. “Taken together, costs and risks can make a powerful argument for doing things rationally,” he said.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

ProjectManager.com

Scrum is a framework that consists of values, roles , events and artifacts. Scrum Events. These scrum events or scrum ceremonies foster team collaboration and make sure that there’s a constant line of communication among the scrum team members through the product or software development life cycle. Get started today for free.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs.

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The 6 Stances Of A Scrum Master

Scrum.org

In 2010 I started my first assignment as a Scrum Master. Scrum Masters help the team, stakeholders, and supporting organization understand how the artifacts, events, accountabilities, and principles promote empiricism and agility. How is Scrum a framework to manage risk and deliver value sooner? Three for each Scrum event.

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4 Awesome Teamwork Examples for Agile Teams

nTask

As a result, while the team was moving from the warm-up area to the track, Trotter withdrew from the event. Example #2: Broderick Brown – Oklahoma State Football Game 2010. On Brown’s part, there was an exhibition of risk-taking and present-mindedness. Be open to entrusting tasks to others who can do them better.

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Let’s Rewrite the PMBOK

Leading Answers

Longtime readers may recall my 2010 post Raise A Little Hell when the PMBOK v5 Update was being commissioned. If we want to change the future of project management I believe the best way to do that is from the inside outwards by doing the work - not from the outside inwards just criticizing. This is going to be different!

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