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The Frog Project: Saving wildlife one bucket at a time

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Together they saved 900 frogs and toads from traffic in 2013 but as with any project it was clear she needed more resources if they were going to achieve more. The project estimating techniques you use also help Helen’s team work out how busy a night they are going to have. Continually improving the process. Predicting volumes.

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Business Analyst vs Project Manager: The Differences To Know

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The project management role stretches over three domains: people, process, and the business environment (these are the three domains defined by PMI). Case study: On a radiology software project I managed, the business analyst helped each department understand their current as is and to be process flows. Interpersonal skills.

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A Project Team’s Guide to Data Conversion: Book Review & Interview with Dave Gordon

Project Bliss

Dave’s book will put you ahead of these data conversion risks with guidance on each step of the process. In 2013 he wrote a series of blog posts on data conversion that were created “in response to various requests from colleagues, customers, and project teams for more detailed information.” He explains that’s how the book started.

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Large Programs Require Special Processes

Herding Cats

This Integrated Program Management Conference (IPMC) 2013 presentation addresses the issues of managing these programs in the presence of uncertanty. . When we hear estimates are hard, we're not good at estimating, estimates are possibly misused, or any other dysfunction around estimating, they're just symptoms of the problem.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Managment Processes. Making the Impossible Possible: Applying Heliotropic Abundance for creating Program and Project Management Processes. Product & Process Development Kaizen , LPPDE, Denver, Colorado, April 21-23, 2008. Integrating Agile with EVM , EVM World, 2013. Basis of Estimate Process.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . This quote demonstrates a lack of understanding of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty and the processes and events that create uncertainty. There is naturally occurring variability from uncontrolled processes.

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Risk Management is Project Management for Adults

Herding Cats

Since assets and human life are at risk they have a mature process for managing risks in the presence of uncertainty - aleatory uncertainty (which is irreducible and requires margin to protect the outcomes) and epistemic uncertainty (which is reducible by direct actions). “A Be an adult, learn to estimating is needed to manage risk.