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Review Agile Governance and Audit

Henny Portman

Christopher Wright wrote the book Agile Governance and Audit – An overview for auditors and agile teams. Agile Governance and Audit gives a short introduction to agile, compares agile with waterfall and looks at audit and agile cultures. Auditing of an agile way of working looks like an unexplored corner. A case study is included.

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The Functions of a Project Management Office

Project Pulse Journal

Take control of your projects and programs today and start seeing the benefits of strategic project management. A Project Management Office (PMO) is a centralized department within an organization that standardizes the governance of projects. What is a Project Management Office?

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Scheduling and Cost Control in a Complex Environment

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

And of course, for our projects and our organisations, we don’t have Governments to bail us out. Schedule and Cost Control Starts with Good Estimates. Having Controls Doesn’t Mean That You’re in Control. There is also a big ‘but’ in terms of availability bias: we tend to forget all the failed or unused initiatives.

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Burnout in Project Management

The IIL Blog

2014), and Jugdev et al., There is risk that burnout can spread to the entire team if not identified and controlled. We must learn how to find the sources of burnout and take control so that the impact is minimized. Some project managers thrive on stress and seem to avoid burnout. REFERENCES Freudenberger, H. Staff burn-out.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Project Governance. Open Loop / Closed Loop Project Controls. Integrated Master Plan: The Foundation of Program Success , College of Performance Management, May 21, 2014. Parametric Project Monitoring and Control. Programmatic Risk Management, Program Planning and Controls Workshop , Denver, Colorado, 6-14, October 2008.

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PMI Australia Conference 2014

quantmleap

While many project managers have been trained in the art of project management based on a set of governance principles grounded in command-and-control related management techniques; managing projects in the 21st Century is developing in an environment in which agility, collaboration, exploration and adaptation are the key.

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

Digite

hours, Published 2014 by Blue Hole Press). This book describes why students, parents, business leaders, major corporations, and world governments all see immediate results with Personal Kanban. 290 pages, Published 8 May 2014 by Celeritas Publishing). Kanban from the Inside. By Mike Burrows. 270 pages, ET to Read: 4.2

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