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How to do Rolling Wave Planning

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The APM Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Control Guide (2015) defines rolling wave planning as ‘the planning density that is achieved at different moments in time. A rolling wave plan starts with knowing the major milestones or governance points. How to create a rolling wave plan. Finally, include the long-range tasks.

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Project Budgeting: An Interview with Sol Benady

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In 2015 he moved into banking and spent time working on, amongst other things, Brexit plans for the bank. Setting up a plan to regularly discuss the budget takes the mystery away, “It’s important to have a governance framework with monthly checkpoints and a monthly meeting. Asking for More Money.

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From Laying the Foundation to Completion: The Basics and Challenges of Project Management in Construction

Inloox

A study from Oxford in 2015 fundamentally addressed the question of why major projects fail. In some cases the difference between actual and estimated numbers was up to 40 percent. Especially in the case of government-financed large-scale projects, the pressure from outside is enormous. Yet these are not isolated cases.

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Estimates, Forecasts, Projections

Herding Cats

An Estimate is a value inferred for a population of values based on data collected from a sample of data from that population. The estimate can also be produced parametrically or through a simulation (Monte Carlo is common, but Method of Moments is another we use). . Estimates can be about the past, present, or future.

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2017 Project Management Trends To Watch

Rebel’s Guide to PM

A positive benefit to this could be employers putting existing professionals through the Higher Project Management Apprenticeship scheme, upskilling them at virtually no cost (or at least, through funds already paid to the government in the form of the levy). Will 2017 be the year we get our first Chartered Project Professionals?

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Microsoft’s PPM Cloud Strategy Failed: What Now?

MPUG

One thing Edward Snowden has taught the world is this: Never trust the US Government or any other government for that matter! This is true for Canadian Federal Government departments, government agencies, large Canadian companies, and even medium-sized Canadian companies. based organizations.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Project Governance. Creating Credible Plans, Integrated Reporting and Control Systems - Part 1 , College of Performance Management, IPM Workshop, 2015. Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016. How to Develop Credible Cost & Schedule Estimate.

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