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Public Infrastructure: Project Management as a Key Success Factor

Inloox

If this had been the case earlier, the building would have been completed in 2014 already. External influences Even in the case of almost perfectly planned projects, external circumstances can require adjustments in budgets and schedules. Budget and time planning. However, inflation can be taken into account to a certain extent.

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The Functions of a Project Management Office

Project Pulse Journal

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Are there projects missing deadlines, going over budget, or failing to meet expectations within your organization? A Project Management Office (PMO) is a centralized department within an organization that standardizes the governance of projects. You're not alone. What is a Project Management Office?

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Agile: Past, Present, & Future. A Conversation with Agile Trainer, Rubin Jen.

International Institute for Learning

Rubin Jen has been in the project management field for over 23 years, spanning aerospace, engineering, telecom, software development, outsourcing, consulting, not-for-profit and government sectors. He has worked with companies such as Bombardier Aerospace, Celestica, Accenture and the Ontario Government.

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Transport for London’s Signal Failure – £886m more than planned*

Ron Rosenhead

The above costs come from a report published by Budget and Performance Committee of the London Assembly. As late as June 2014, TfL’s senior management continued to claim that the project could still be delivered by 2018 despite rail experts suggesting that this was impossible. Horrible headlines and a horrible situation.

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Scheduling and Cost Control in a Complex Environment

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

Professor Flyvbjerg’s evidence showed that out of 12,000 major projects studied globally, fewer than half were on budget, fewer than 8% also on schedule, and only 0.5% As expected, it has a 100% record in delivery on schedule, but no Olympic Games has ever met the original budget (mean cost over-run 172%).

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Embracing an Innovative Mindset

Tony Adams

Digital disruption is challenging traditional business models and creating new market opportunities, with increasing connectivity, IT capabilities and commodification of Big Data reshaping the customer experience (Deloitte, 2014). Yet, they consistently fail to deliver. Globally, companies waste approximately 9.7%

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

“A Taxonomy of Threats for Complex Risk Management,” Centre for Risk Studies, Research Programme of the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School, June 2014. “A 1, March 2014. 1–10, 2014. A Risk Management Methodology for Project Risk Dependencies,” Tak Wah Kwan and Hareton K.N.,