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100+ Project Management Terms: PM Terminology Explained

ProjectManager.com

Baseline A baseline is an estimate of the project’s scope, schedule and costs that is created during the planning stage. Cost overrun This is the actual cost that exceeds the estimated cost in the budget, also known as a cost increase or budget overrun. It is drawn from left to right to reflect the chronology of a project.

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The 18 Most Influential People in Project Management

ProjectManager.com

Bridges also is a highly influential YouTube personality who has created hundreds of videos on project management and leadership which have earned well over 10 million views since 2011. Pawel Brodzinski. Jon Terry . Ron Rosenhead.

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The Psychology of Forecasting Uncertainty

LiquidPlanner

For much of the last century, business plans, strategies, and economic theories were predicated upon the behavior of rational actors. Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. . Thinking about that a little more deeply, do you think we might be better off if we plan for failure ? About the Author.

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In-Depth: How Easily Biases Distort What We Believe (In The Workplace)

Scrum.org

This bias often manifests as a “positive test strategy” (Klayman & Ha, 1987) where people only test assumptions by looking for what confirms them, but not by also considering what would falsify them. The Liberating Structure Myth Turning is a good example of this strategy. Fundamental attribution error. —?like How to reduce this bias.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Establishing the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) , AACE Workshop, Denver, Colorado, April 16, 2011. Establishing the Performance Measurement Baseline , AACE Workshop , April 16, 2011. Earned Value + Agile = Success , National Defense Industry Association (NDIA) Conference, 4-6 April 2011, Baltimore, MD.

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Software Review: Roadmap Planner [2017]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is where you can add notes, projects or tasks to part of the roadmap so that you don’t forget what that element of your strategy was supposed to be about. Create a backlog with notes on your projects or milestones to remind you of the detail when you come to implement that part of the strategy. Read my complete review of.

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Software Review: Roadmap Planner [2017]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is where you can add notes, projects or tasks to part of the roadmap so that you don’t forget what that element of your strategy was supposed to be about. Create a backlog with notes on your projects or milestones to remind you of the detail when you come to implement that part of the strategy. Read my complete review of.