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6 Barriers to customer centricity

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is an edited extract from Customer-Centric Project Management by Elizabeth Harrin and Phil Peplow (Gower/Routledge, 2012). They are: Time Transparency Team Title Type of organization Technique. Issues can be agreed, status discussed, priorities defined and customer satisfaction scores obtained in a 15–minute phone call.

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Project Management Worker Engagement

The IIL Blog

In the past, engaging team members effectively in project assignments was not given the attention it is receiving today. Projects were often short term and team members were seen as a project expense and to be removed as quickly as possible after the work was completed. How much authority will the worker have?

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Sustain Your PMO: Nine Easy Lessons

The Lazy Project Manager

And there are communities you can connect to – on LinkedIn, through the project management bodies such as PMI and APM, etc. It is our belief that the best PMOs balance all of this to achieve the most effective development of capability, representation of capability and sharing of capability and achievement.

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

Keys to Project Success: 48% say the team’s technical skills. 26% say effective team communication. Lean & Test Driven Development (TDD) – 11%. Feature Development Driven – 9%. Dynamic Systems Development Method – 3%. PMI Agile Certified Practitioner holders: 5,265. [14]. Unaligned team/missing skills.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD). The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. The overarching theme is focused on defining what Done looks like, assessing progress toward Done in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers.

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A Better Microsoft Project: Workload Levelling and Resource-Critical Path

MPUG

If you manage a resource-constrained project, you will often artificially delay activities as to not overwork (or burn out) your team members. Examples are software development, new product development, pharmaceutical clinical studies, telecommunication, research and development, education, and government projects.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Defining Uncertainty in Projects ? Risk Management Papers. “A