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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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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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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.

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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. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs.

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Requirements Management Panel Discussion – Transcription

MPUG

He manages a large federal government training contract and teaches primarily Microsoft Project and project management courses. He joined Edwards in 2004 as a project coordinator and scheduler and provided project planning and scheduling support to variety of commercial and federal government clients. That’s the gist of me.

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Misinterpretations of the Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

The Cone of Uncertainty is a framing assumption used to model the needed reduction in some parameter of interest in domains ranging from software development to hurricane forecasting. This is a common problem in low maturity development organizations. Thesis, University of Southern California, August 2012.

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Sustain Your PMO: Nine Easy Lessons

The Lazy Project Manager

It addition it is noted in the PM-Partners: PMO Trends 2012 report: When a PMO is expected to work across the organisation at all levels, oversee significant investments and facilitate senior decisions – it is surprising that a high number of organisations either put the wrong person in the job or don’t support them when they are in place.

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