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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.

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Why Your Company Needs a Risk Management Framework

Techno-PM

Since a business requires different operations to function smoothly, it is crucial to ensure you have the proper tools to identify, remove, and minimise organisational risks. Risk Management Framework (RMF) provides your business security, efficiency, and effectiveness. What is Risk Management Framework?

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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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Zombie Projects and How to Kill Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Zombie PM is a term I came up with in 2010 when I put together a project management alphabet. “I realise these would take years to plan and implement,” he says. “But this PMO was managing software applications, both in development and in operation. How to spot a zombie project.

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Microsoft Project Viewer – View & Edit MPP Files (Updated Nov. 2019)

ProjectManager.com

A Microsoft Project viewer is a piece of software that gives users the ability to open, export and print MS Project files without a Microsoft Project license. Microsoft Project is expensive, and it doesn’t share well with others who don’t have a copy of the software, which is generally clunky. MS Project Is Expensive.

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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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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Basis of Estimating Software Development

Herding Cats

The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. Here are some resources that will provide guidance to produce credible software development estimates, in both traditional and agile domains. Software Sizing and Estimating: Mk II FPA , Charles Symons, John Wiley & Sons, 1991. IT Risk Management.