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Free project management certifications

Moira Alexander

Founded by Harvard University and MIT in 2012, edX is one of the biggest MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) platforms available and offers many project management (PM) courses. Introductory project management courses. Intermediate project management courses. Related Video.

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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

This article explains what a risk-adjusted backlog is, why they are useful, how to create one and how teams work with them. What is a Risk-Adjusted Backlog? A risk-adjusted backlog is a backlog that contains activities relating to managing risk in addition to the usual features associated with delivering value.

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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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Planning and Executing Projects Considering The Rule of Three and Four

The Strategic Project Manager

Stable industries require a well-defined, largely predictive approach to managing projects. Less stable environments, by contrast, require a more adaptive approach – to both strategy and project management. This post explores an old rule in strategy for stable industries, the Rule of Three and Four.

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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. Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ?

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The BCG Advantage Matrix

The Strategic Project Manager

Understanding where the competitive environment is along those two dimensions can provide an organization with some realistic insights to guide the development of strategy. The matrix shows, in essence, the type of strategy that must be considered for optimal opportunity in the given environment, as defined by those dimensions.

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In-Depth: What a Social Systems Perspective Teaches us About Change

Scrum.org

The idea of the organization as a machine has become so ingrained and pervasive in management practices and theories in the past fifty years, that it is hard to even be aware of it. and attributes much of it to scientific management. The most significant criticism of scientific management?—?and Who is the ‘leader’?

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