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Simplifying Procurement in Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

Manage and Review Procurement Performance : Oversee the procurement process and evaluate outcomes. Prequalification documents often request detailed information about the suppliers' technical abilities, resources, and legal standing to verify their capability to fulfill the contract requirements.

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Top 10 Lean/ Kanban Books for IT, Software and Knowledge Work!

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Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business. This book provides the most comprehensive overview of the Kanban Method and its application to technology and general business functions. hours, Published 2014 by Blue Hole Press). 290 pages, Published 8 May 2014 by Celeritas Publishing). By David J Anderson.

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Tailoring Your Project Management Approach: A Beginner’s Guide

Project Pulse Journal

This customization process involves a modification of methodologies and governance structures, transforming project management into a strategic asset as dynamic as the projects it aims to guide. Such interactions facilitate and establish a collaborative environment where teams can openly discuss policy alignment and governance integration.

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Without a Root Cause Analysis, No Corrective or Preventive Action is Credible - Part 1

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“A Taxonomy of an IT Project Failure: Root Causes,” Walid Al-Ahmad, Et Al, International Management Review, Vol. Why Do Information Technology Projects Fail?” The Analyzing Method of Root Causes for Software Problems,” Tomomi Kataoka, Ken Furuto and Tatsuji Matsumoto, SEI Technical Review, Number 73, October 2011. “A

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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So in the end, if we are to make a decision in the presence of uncertainty, we MUST make estimates to develop a reliable shipping date while producing an accurate and precise estimate of the cost, schedule, and technical performance of the product shipped on that date. Eggstaff, Thomas A.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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Research clearly shows the root causes of most software projects cost and schedule overruns and technical shortfalls comes from poor risk management. Risk can be the potential consequence of a specific outcome that affects the system’s ability to meet cost, schedule, and/or technical objectives. Epistemic uncertainty ?

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

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We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . 6, No 5, October 2014. [3] This also meant developing software systems to support this effort.