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9 Steps to Managing Risk for Your Projects

LiquidPlanner

When teams have a good project risk management process in place, then you can identify and deal with all the project’s risks in an appropriate and thorough manner. an estimate of three or more on the scale mentioned in No. Estimation. But there are ways you can mitigate and manage risk. Assign owners. And who doesn’t want that?

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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. The next step in the planning process is to create a project schedule for the first wave, in conjunction with the team.

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

Inloox

Project management in construction describes the planning and work process in order to produce or modify a construction object. The larger and more complex a project is, the more participants and interrelationships are involved and the more complicated the organization and planning of the process becomes. Let's start with the basics.

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Basis of Estimating Software Development

Herding Cats

The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. When it is suggested that estimating is hard, of no value, and unnecessary, always ask what principle is used to support that claim? Software Sizing and Estimating: Mk II FPA , Charles Symons, John Wiley & Sons, 1991. Don't hear one?

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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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The Illusion of Velocity

Scrum.org

Insisting on precise estimates in such scenarios leads to unrealistic commitments and, often, failure to deliver value, impeding the building of trust between teams and their stakeholders. Inflexible Structures Hinder Adaptability : Traditional management often has rigid hierarchies and processes designed for stability. Collins, T.,

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2017 Project Management Trends To Watch

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Our software tools are full of data from the risks we log to the estimates we fail to achieve. You can’t hold information in your head about how accurate each individual team member has been in estimating their workload on this project and the last five projects they have worked on. Blended Methodology. Are you waterfall or Agile?

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