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

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Despite your efforts to clearly define the scope, time and resources necessary to successfully complete the projects, things simply don’t always go according to plan. Maja Mrsic Here are 3 examples of projects that didn’t go to plan. For example, in June 2010 Chrysler merged with Fiat. The merger was not a successful one.

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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

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View planned hours and actual hours as well as planned costs and actual costs on the task card to help forecast and track resources and costs. Plan, Schedule and Track Projects With Multiple Tools Kanban is only one of the multiple project views available on the software platform. Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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Top PM 10 Articles of All Time

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Gipsy Moth IV did make her planned round-the-world journey and continues to operate today , taking groups on breath-taking sea journeys. My project alphabet was a popular post of 2010 and inspired Derek Huether to write a book about zombie project management. At the time, the project was desperately short of cash.

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Does social media make projects more complex?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Social media and project communication plans. This makes the communication plans for projects more complex. Should you include social media outreach efforts in your communications plan? A version of this article first appeared on this site in 2010. If they don’t, you’ll hear about it pretty quickly.

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20 Years of The Agile Manifesto

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I’m not an agilist (at all) but I use Kanban boards for my own task planning, and concepts like iterations, progressive elaboration and regular lessons learned meetings, which are small ways in which my own work has evolved and benefitted through an understanding of agile techniques. The Agile Manifesto Authors.

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Scrum necesita un evento de Planificación de la Meta de Producto

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Evolución de Scrum y la Meta de Producto En los orígenes de Scrum , previos a la primera Guía Scrum de 2010, se hablaba de la «planificación de la release» como un evento formal que ayudaba a definir un plan de trabajo de la versión, basado en un número estimado de Sprints.

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How to Manage Fixed Date Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Hitting the date is compulsory, which means we can’t plan the project as we would normally do using best practice scheduling techniques. Projects with fixed end dates present a different type of planning challenge for project managers. Instead of being able to analyze and plan, you are told what to do and when to do it by.

Telecoms 476