International Institute for Learning

JULY 7, 2022

During the last two decades there has been the emergence of a number of software development methods as a response to the inefficiency of existing software development methods in rapidly changing environments (Highsmith, 2004). We can say the Agile methods have well-interpreted the so-called Copernican Revolution in management.

Innovation 59

Innovation Agile 2002 2001 59

The Lazy Project Manager

APRIL 12, 2017

The report Why good strategies fail: Lessons for the C-suite published by The Economist Intelligence Unit Limited in 2013 stated in its conclusion that there was a need for increased C-suite attention to implementation (and therefore projects). Known as The Lazy Project Manager, Peter Taylor is a project management office (PMO) expert.

Executing 186

Executing PMO 2013 Leadership 186

Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Here are my collected works, presentations, briefings, journal papers, articles, white papers, and essays, used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've developed and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems domain. Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management.

2003 54

2003 2011 2008 Performance Measurement 54

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Product Management keeps telling me in this Agile way of doing things there is no committed scope, no plan, only 'Responding to change'. Dealing with Technology Uncertainty - The Waterfall Passive/Buffered Risk Management Style. Dealing with Technology Uncertainty - The Agile/Scrum Active Risk Management Style.

Underperforming Technical Team 128

Underperforming Technical Team Risk SCRUM Executing 128

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

Uncertainty is related to three aspects of the management of projects: The external world - the activities of the project itself. The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value.

2003 46

2003 2014 2015 2011 46

LiquidPlanner

JULY 6, 2017

percent increase in revenues between 2013 and 2014. With advanced data insight, machinery maintenance can be scheduled proactively, reducing the risk of costly downtimes. What New Tech Means for Project Management. The technologies are not unfamiliar to the profession; project managers are already using AI tools and software.

Manufacturing 115

Manufacturing Artificial Inteligence 2014 2013 115

Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 11, 2024

Many project managers face the challenge of delivering projects that make a difference. Because there's a sustainable way to deliver more value: value creation in project management. Value creation lies at the heart of project management, driving outcomes and business success. Ready to elevate your project management game?

Innovation 52

Innovation Sustainability Monitoring Risk Management 52

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

But before going further, let's establish the definitions we need to understand and apply Root Cause Analysis needed to discover the corrective and preventive actions to increase the probability of project success - especially Software Project Success. What factors lead to software project failure?” All for the want of a nail.

2014 45

2014 Aerospace 2011 2013 45

Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It helps project managers, stakeholders, and team members understand: A project’s roadmap , Important milestones along the way, Work dependencies, Required resources , And the risks involved. Project milestones make the project more manageable and risk-free. It also helps manage the workload of your team members.

2010 98

2010 2013 2016 Risk Management 98

Digite

JUNE 28, 2017

Each interaction has been an opportunity of learning; each event we have attended and many times sponsored, we have better understood the nuances of focusing on flow in systems to enable not just greater agility, but better risk management, dramatically improved predictability and greater throughput/ reduced time to market.

2015 60

2015 2014 Lean 2013 60

Wrike

MARCH 14, 2019

As a result, they’re missing out on rapid, innovative cloud solutions to challenges like scalability, software updates, mobile connectivity, etc. This point of view is why Wrike has always been at the forefront of collaborative work management security. Securing the collaborative work management space.

2013 61

2013 Certification 2017 2018 61

International Institute for Learning

APRIL 17, 2020

Over more than three decades working internationally as an engineer, project manager, trainer and coach, one of the major things that I have observed is the importance of the language barrier, particularly from a “Discounting level 1 & 2” point of view. We prefer nouns to verbs: “Who is your Manager?” The Language Barrier.

2013 55

2013 Engineering Software Review Energy 55

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The planned uncertainty not only needs to decrease over time passing, but this reduction diminishes any impacts of risk on the decision-making processes. Seems there is still some confusion (intentional or accidental) about the Cone of Uncertainty and its purpose and its use in software development.

2007 34

2007 2012 2009 2010 34

Herding Cats

AUGUST 25, 2017

Johns Hopkins University's Whiting School of Engineering provides an approach to making the decision about what's in the ConOps and its format based on some Systems Engineering analysis of criteria: Program risks - reducible and irreducible uncertainties that create these risks. IT Risk Management. Related articles.

2014 38

2014 2013 2012 Engineering 38

PM Times

APRIL 7, 2021

It will discuss why the Core IT Complexity model is a good approach for most IT organizations and why it is important to determine project complexity as an ongoing and integral part of the Change Management and Risk Management process. It can also indicate potential risks to existing projects. Introduction.

2016 52

2016 2014 PMO Software Review 52

Planio

JULY 9, 2020

Even software. Redmine is the most popular open source project management tool and issue tracker out there, thanks in large part to it’s dedicated community of users and contributors. Why use an open source project management tool like Redmine? Configuring Redmine for project management. How do I run Redmine?

2006 88

2006 2007 Closing Agile 88

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 18, 2021

Managing a project is a team effort. Depending on the project management tools that you use, you could end up with files of various types—and this can cause compatibility issues. Depending on the project management tools that you use, you could end up with files of various types—and this can cause compatibility issues.

2003 227

2003 2007 2010 2002 227

LiquidPlanner

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Because project management is such a multifaceted role that works with many different stakeholders, we’ve included both PM and non-PM resources. Alpha Project Managers: What the Top 2% Know That Everyone Else Does Not by Andy Crowe. Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager by Kory Kogen.

Technical Review 113

Technical Review 2018 Underperforming Technical Team Certification 113

Velociteach

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The podcast by project managers for project managers. Dr. Joel Carboni talks about Sustainable Project Management, and the goal to achieve a stated objective while considering the project outcome’s entire lifecycle to ensure a net positive environmental, social, and economic impact. We’re talking about Green Project Management.

Sustainability 98

Sustainability Underperforming Technical Team Construction Certification 98

MPUG

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

mpp) are proprietary, so there is compatibility issues if you open a project in another workstation that does not contain the software. SharePoint Designer 2013 needs to be used to build custom lifecycle workflows, it is clunky, out of date and not intuitive and normally requires a 3rd party to develop the workflows.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team 2019 2013 Technical Review 52

Digite

JUNE 13, 2018

Compared to Scrum, Kanban is a young work-management method. Anderson best articulated its application to software development, in 2013, in the foundational book Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business, and its adoption hasn’t been as universal as Scrum’s during the early days of Agile software development.

Agile 110

Agile Technical Review Cadence Software Review 110

Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

Traditional project management approaches, several of which are based on a strong belief in the cone of uncertainty, advocate stronger project control and greater planning. Shipping on time, to specifications, and within budget might be meaningless if a competitor is shipping software that has a greater value to the market.

2007 42

2007 2012 2006 2008 42

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 4, 2022

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. Scrum is a simple project management framework that facilitates team collaboration on complex product and software development projects.

SCRUM 332

SCRUM Software Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team 332

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). The notion of the Cone of Uncertainty has been around for awhile.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). The notion of the Cone of Uncertainty has been around for awhile.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 3, 2022

I color-code the date column too, with red, amber and green to show whether the delivery is on track, at risk or needing serious management attention. In Office 2013 and later, you’ll need to open the draft message first. Read next: Overcoming poor communication in project management by dealing with interference.

Software Review 415

Software Review 2013 Risk Management Risk 415

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). This is done by active risk management, through probabalistic decision-making.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Microeconomics is applicable to the development is software systems. If we look at the discipline of software engineering, we see that the microeconomics branch of economics deals more with the types of decisions we need to make as software engineers or managers. Software engineering economics." Boehm, Barry W.

Software Developers 34

Software Developers Software Development Risk Management Risk 34

Project Management Hacks

AUGUST 4, 2016

Leigh Espy, FedEx Project Manager. What is like to work as a project manager? In today’s article, you will hear directly from Leigh Espy about her journey into project management success at FedEx. In 2013 , the company delivered 1.5 In 2003, I managed a project to set up a new customer at my company’s data center.

2013 28

2013 2003 Technical Review 2010 28

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

This ignores the principles of predictive analytics, and the direct management actions taken to produce outcomes from those analytical models found everywhere from project management to grocery store management and the model-based systems engineering. In ISO 15288 this is the role of the Risk Management Processes.

Aerospace 41

Aerospace Engineering 2012 2014 41

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

MARCH 14, 2019

Experienced managers know the value of the ‘elevator view’, that is, knowing when to press the button for the top floor to look down at the bigger picture, and when to descend to the ground floor to get down ‘amongst the weeds’. Strategic Risk Management. Can we ever achieve this ideal world?

Risk Management 43

Risk Management Risk 2017 Technical Review 43

Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

In a recent exchange in social media, it was clear the notion of risk and the sources of risk, the consequences or risks and managing in the presence of risk was in very unclear, when it was conjectured , we can simply slice the work into small bits and REDUCE risk. . Software Risk Management , Barry W.

Risk Management 43

Risk Management Risk 2003 2011 43

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 20, 2020

I colour-code the date column too, with red, amber and green to show whether the delivery is on track, at risk or needing serious management attention. In Office 2013 and later, you’ll need to open the draft message first. Read next: Overcoming poor communication in project management by dealing with interference.

Software Review 339

Software Review 2013 Risk Management Risk 339

MPUG

APRIL 29, 2020

This webinar is an update of Oliver’s MPUG presentation and schedule template provided on October 2013. Our source material is a tool developed in the nineties by PricewaterhouseCoopers while they had a software development contract business. Kyle: We’ll go ahead and get started. Let’s take an example.

Estimate 52

Estimate Software Review Risk Management Risk 52

ActiveCollab

JANUARY 7, 2018

Before joining 99designs, Lindsey spent 10 years managing brands big and small, and helped launch an outdoor apparel [brand]([link] with her husband in 2013. So much easier to have project-tracking software that allows someone to tick a box when a job is complete, and links to a shared working document.”. It’s not complicated.

2013 0

2013 Logistics Risk Management Risk 0

Epicflow Blog

MAY 30, 2023

Each critical success factor is measured by corresponding KPIs that help a project manager keep control of them. The latter are the standards that are used to assess a project upon its completion – whether it has met the requirements and expectations of stakeholders, clients, and senior management.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review Aerospace 2010 52

MPUG

JULY 30, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Rich Murphy’s showcase session, Triskell Software for Enterprise Governance, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello everyone, and welcome to today’s MPUG vendor showcase session, Triskell Software for Enterprise Governance. Rich: Okay, Kyle.

Governance 52

Governance Government Software Review Software 52