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Managing Project Delays in the COVID-19 Age

LiquidPlanner

Projects can get delayed for many reasons from third party suppliers failing to deliver on time, to poor communication between project stakeholders sometimes the deliverables are simply not realistic within the project constraints. He says, “If it’s a short delay, you’ll likely have the same people on the project team when it resumes.

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What 10 years of working remotely has taught us (plus our top tips)

Resource Guru

Today, many companies and project managers have opened their eyes to the benefits of remote work—a model Resource Guru has embraced since our inception in 2012. While there are differences across teams, at the heart of successful remote management is a foundation centered on flexibility, streamlined workflows, and employee satisfaction.

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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%. Poor visibility & resource management : 31%. Poor purchasing processes: 23%.

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Deconstruction the #NoEstimates Conjecture

Herding Cats

This is simply good process development and management. This, of course, is simply poor process improvement and a fallacy since without the root cause the symptom cannot be fixed and will return. At a minimum, at the end of every week, a Scrum team assess physical percent complete at the end of the Sprint. Standish Number.

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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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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Performance Evaluation of non?

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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. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.