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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Integrated Master Plan: The Foundation of Program Success , College of Performance Management, May 21, 2014. Five Immutable Principles of Project Success , PMI Spring Seminar, 2021, Austin TX. Five Principles of Project Success , PMI, Northern Utah Chapter, Professional Development Day, 2012. Planning and Scheduling.

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Unlocking the Power and Mastery of Development Approach and Life Cycle

Project Pulse Journal

An adaptive approach, on the other hand, is often used in software development as it offers more flexibility to change. Iterative and incremental approaches are more advantageous in developing products that allow the progressive development of features and functions. Process Groups: A Practice Guide. & Burgan, D.

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The Functions of a Project Management Office

Project Pulse Journal

Here are three common types of PMOs from across various sectors: Supportive PMO Industry Application - A supportive PMO is common in industries where projects require flexibility and autonomy, such as IT and software development enterprises. Paper presented at PMI® Global Congress 2014—EMEA, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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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 IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. 1, March 2014. 5, September/October 2011. 255, April 2010. 920, November 2004.

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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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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Making the Move from Business Analyst to Product Owner

International Institute for Learning

Software development is going to adopt Scrum as its operating approach to developing software. Many business analysts, like myself, have backgrounds in technology, engineering and software development, and so have a good feeling for what it takes to develop a new software application.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

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Agile Software Development (#ASD). But each method needs to be based on 5 Immutable principles to be successful, no matter the domain or context, PMI Spring Seminar , 2012, Austin TX. Those lessons are directly transferable to the management of software development teams. Enterprise IT and Embedded Systems (#EIT).