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The ESP connection

The Lazy Project Manager

Does the executive team interact with project sponsors on a regular basis, perhaps are they even the executive sponsors themselves? If you don’t declare a complete and utter ‘No’ then the next step of the ‘ESP’ test is to consider any weak points in this ‘Executive board to Sponsor to Project Manager’ relationship.

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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. 24, 2010. “A

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs.

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Webinar Recap: Microsoft Project Do’s, Don’ts, and Cool Customizations

MPUG

Sam first gained insight into Microsoft Project while working as a member of the project development and support team. This technique that I’m using by the way is what you might use to focus a team on individual tasks or individual areas of the project, so they don’t have to see all of the project.

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

Having a knowledge transfer process in place boosts the chance of project success by over 20%. [6]. Keys to Project Success: 48% say the team’s technical skills. 26% say effective team communication. Most Popular Agile Tools and Processes: Scrum – 43%. Lean & Test Driven Development (TDD) – 11%. 2% — Other.

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Project Sponsors are from Venus

The Lazy Project Manager

And yet project sponsors don’t just need to support projects; good project sponsors also support the project manager and project team. Pulse of the Profession™ March 2013’ it was assessed that the value impact on poor project sponsorship from the executive level had real significance. In ‘Project Management Institute, Inc.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. We develop these reference classes using Agile Function Points.