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

Inloox

The success of a construction project is sometimes recognizable even to amateurs and influences the lives of everybody. 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. But who is to blame?

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Creating Credible Plans, Integrated Reporting and Control Systems - Part 1 , College of Performance Management, IPM Workshop, 2015. Integrating Agile Software Development with Earned Value Management , College of Performance Management, IPM Workshop, 2015. How to Develop Credible Cost & Schedule Estimate.

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Part II: A Simplified Approach to Determine IT Project Complexity

PM Times

“For instance, large-scale engineering and construction projects are considered to be complicated projects, but they may not necessarily be complex projects (provided that the interactions with and the influences of the environment are trivial or rather predictable). 2015; Dunovic et al., & Sense, A., 2014; Lessard et al.,

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In-Depth: How Easily Biases Distort What We Believe (In The Workplace)

Scrum.org

Initially coined by cognitive psychologist Lee Ross (1977), it happens when people underestimate the influence of the situation on the behavior of others while overestimating the influence of their personal traits and beliefs (Berry, 2015). This bias is also known as the ‘correspondence bias’. Examples in the workplace.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

requires making estimates) ? Estimation of Long?Term Risk Analysis & Estimating Uncertainty … and what this has to do with the price of milk in McLean,” Phil Beenhouwer, The Society of Cost Estimating & Analysis (SCEA), May 17, 2006. 4, February 24, 2015. Thomas, Director Today , December 2015.

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Acting Like an Adult in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

The alternatives can involve a large number of uncertainties about the factors that influence the ultimate outcomes. The values capture the needs, objectives, and preferences of the stakeholders, which are the people and organizations that have an interest and can influence or be influenced by a decision. Related articles.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

requires making estimates) ? Estimation of Long?Term Risk Analysis & Estimating Uncertainty … and what this has to do with the price of milk in McLean,” Phil Beenhouwer, The Society of Cost Estimating & Analysis (SCEA), May 17, 2006. 4, February 24, 2015. Thomas, Director Today , December 2015.