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Burnout in Project Management

The IIL Blog

2014), and Jugdev et al., Techniques have been developed describing ways to recover all or part of the expected business value from a distressed project [Morais-Storz et al., This requires identification of potential causes of poor performance and preventing them from reoccurring during recovery.

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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. Despite the development of many frameworks and best practices, evidence shows that we are not good at estimating, especially in complex projects.

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The Social Project Manager

The Lazy Project Manager

Balancing Collaboration with Centralised Control in a Project Driven World. But let’s expand this thought process to the project team as a whole and consider how such social tools impact the team performance. The Social Project Manager. We human beings are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others’ actions.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Product Development (#ProdDev). Governance (#Governance). Agile Software Development (#ASD). The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. Project Governance - project management is a well-defined concept found in many guidebooks and Bodies of Knowledge.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Performance Evaluation of non?

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ‒ Steve McConnell. 449-462, July 2004.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.