Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 24, 2020

This interview was first published in 2015. How do you balance the need to collaborate with the governance and control that’s required in a project environment? How can you use social practices to mitigate the requirements and constraints for governance? And what is a social project manager?

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Inloox

JANUARY 14, 2021

Construction projects are associated with many risks simply based on their sheer size. A study from Oxford in 2015 fundamentally addressed the question of why major projects fail. Especially in the case of government-financed large-scale projects, the pressure from outside is enormous. What makes construction projects special?

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 16, 2016

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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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Project Governance. Creating Credible Plans, Integrated Reporting and Control Systems - Part 1 , College of Performance Management, IPM Workshop, 2015. Risk Management. Managing in the Presence of Uncertainty and Resulting Risk. Managment Processes.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

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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Inloox

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As a 2015 survey by consulting firm McKinsey found, 84 percent of CEOs in companies worldwide think innovation is extremely important. That's because prioritizing now involves selecting projects from a portfolio of innovation initiatives that offer the greatest benefit and managing risk, because innovation is inherently risky.

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Henny Portman

MARCH 17, 2021

Rik de Groot and Daria Nozhkina explore the future by explaining the three steps that provide clarity to leaders in an organization, reduce the risk and increase the succes rate: 1) Digital & agile assessments, 2) strategic advice & design and 3) strategic exploration & preparation.

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Technical Review Agile 2015 Leadership 118

Moira Alexander

JANUARY 18, 2017

PMI's Pulse of the Profession report shows "only 64 percent of government strategic initiatives ever meet their goals and business intent -- and that government entities waste $101 million for every $1 billion spent on project and programs.". 1550 -- the Program Management Improvement and Accountability Act of 2015 (PMIAA) into law.

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Governance Government 2015 2016 100

Ron Rosenhead

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Read the PMI Pulse of the Profession Report 2015. If its zero (as suggested to me recently by a senior manager) then do read PMI’s 2015 Pulse of the Profession – Capturing the Value of Project Management. No matter what risk scoring process you use I would say this is in the red zone. He was looking for training to rectify this.

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2015 Influencer PMI Risk Management 170

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Risk Management (#RM). Governance (#Governance). Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Project Governance - project management is a well-defined concept found in many guidebooks and Bodies of Knowledge.

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Project Management Hacks

APRIL 28, 2016

Have you ever considered the public sector and government for your next career move? Governments face interesting problems and that means there are opportunities to deliver new projects. government to launching his own venture, GovLoop. My thanks to Winnie Liem and the PMI-SOC Government Community for introducing me to Steve.

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Governance Government 2015 2007 28

MPUG

APRIL 2, 2024

The project manager will also need to manage assumptions and risks related to the project. government began using it to manage complex defense projects. Project Risk Management : This knowledge area focuses on the processes and activities required to identify, assess, and mitigate risks associated with a project.

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Certification PMI Logistics Construction 52

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 6, 2016

In March 2015, while on my way to the compulsory CDS (Community Development Service) for Corps members, I was hit by a moving motorcycle. I knew the risk, severe pains and discomforts I would have to re-undergo, coupled with the money and time that I would have to spend all over again. How I Got a Broken Leg.

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Digite

JUNE 28, 2017

Each interaction has been an opportunity of learning; each event we have attended and many times sponsored, we have better understood the nuances of focusing on flow in systems to enable not just greater agility, but better risk management, dramatically improved predictability and greater throughput/ reduced time to market.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project. Dealing with Aleatory (irreducible) uncertainty and the resulting risk requires we have margin. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value. One starting point is the value at risk.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Research clearly shows the root causes of most software projects cost and schedule overruns and technical shortfalls comes from poor risk management. Now To Risk Management. Risk is the effect of uncertainty of objectives. ISO 31000:2009, ISO 17666:2016, and ISO 11231:2010 Risk is Uncertainty that Matters.

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Software Developers Software Development Risk Management Risk 34

Prince2

DECEMBER 11, 2017

That still applies to a lot of the people, like government and business leaders. Manage risk. Remember that big projects come with big risks. Make sure you assign a Risk Owner who understands the intricacies of this issue. Because Europol is EU-funded, Brexit means the UK risks losing membership.

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Prince2 Governance Government Certification 47

The Lazy Project Manager

JANUARY 27, 2016

The risk to not doing so is to, at the very least, slow the return on investment of the new PMO down. With a practical framework for guidance, such as this book, and a supporting experience coach then the organisation benefits that have led to the PMO investment will be secured in an optimum time frame and with reduced risk of failure.

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PMO Sustainability 2012 Underperforming Technical Team 170

Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 12, 2021

Portfolio Office Manager (PfM) is an employee who administers projects and programs in a portfolio in terms of risk, benefit, and performance management and reports on the results to the portfolio director and often workes together with a portfolio office analyst. PMO Job Titles.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

Monte Carlo Schedule Risk Analysis,” Intaver Institute, Inc. What the Data Say About IT project Risk in the Public Sector,” Alexander Budzier and Bent Flyvbjerg, in Commonwealth Governance Handbook, 2012/2013: Democracy, development, and Public Administration, Commonwealth Secretariat, December 2012. 61, September 2004.

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Estimate Software Review Software 2012 40

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

AUGUST 8, 2019

Back in 2015, we took a look at the five advanced training options for people working in PMO. Think about it, an improvement is needed in, for example, in the risk management process or governance arrangements in large scale projects. Four years on and a few things have changed in the PMO field.

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PMO Certification Influencer 2015 56

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

1, 2015, “Evaluation of Model Evaluation Criterion for Software Development Effort Estimation,” S. Jeyakumar , International Journal of Electrical, Computer, Energetic, Electronic and Communication Engineering , Vol: 9, No: 1, 2015. Pillai, and M. Exploring the ‘Planning Fallacy’: Why People Underestimate Their Task Completion Times.”

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

We can estimate the total cost, total duration, and the probability that all the Features will be delivered on the program we are working for the US Government. This uncertainty creates risk and as stated here often. Risk Management is How Adults Mange Projects - Time Lister. IT Risk Management. Other Resources.

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Estimate 2015 2017 Governance 36

Online PM Courses

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

In 2015, the PMI introduced its Talent Triangle. Governance (project, program, portfolio). Risk management. The PMI Talent Triangle defines three areas for continuing education for holders of all PMI certifications. It is not a central feature of gaining the qualifications themselves. Issue Logs. Financial Reports.

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PMI Technical Review Certification Leadership 74

MPUG

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Great quote from Bill Gates back in 2015, eh? Manufacturing seems to be in the dumper, and disappointing is that government PMs that were surveyed don’t seem to be faring very well. And, of course governments move slowly, but in times like this we’d hope that they’d move a little faster, right? Did we use it?

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ActiveCollab

JUNE 20, 2017

This way, customers get bug fixes and new features as soon as they’re done, and there’s less risk altogether. Scrum can also be used in schools, agencies, government, and other types of organizations. For statistics on how others use Scrum, check out the The 2015 State of Scrum Report from Scrum Alliance. What is Scrum.

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SCRUM Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 51

MPUG

DECEMBER 3, 2021

He manages a large federal government training contract and teaches primarily Microsoft Project and project management courses. He joined Edwards in 2004 as a project coordinator and scheduler and provided project planning and scheduling support to variety of commercial and federal government clients. I have used silent brainstorming.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 52

ActiveCollab

JUNE 20, 2017

This way, customers get bug fixes and new features as soon as they’re done, and there’s less risk altogether. Scrum can also be used in schools, agencies, government, and other types of organizations. For statistics on how others use Scrum, check out the The 2015 State of Scrum Report from Scrum Alliance. What is Scrum.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 9, 2017

This is the value at risk discussion. The 2015 10K shows $74.5B Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects. Implying there is no need to measure the project performance and by implication no need to estimate. This, of course, ignores the need to know how much of that $50M minus the $1M am I willing to loose?

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Project Management Hacks

AUGUST 4, 2016

2015 Revenue: over $47 billion U.S. This led me to a project coordinator position in local government early in my career. I led an effort to develop a risk-based software development process. In 2013 , the company delivered 1.5 million items on Mother’s Day. billion net income). What did you study in school?

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Project Management Hacks

JUNE 16, 2016

In Ontario, a sharp decline in the number of automotive jobs prompted governments to provide billions of dollars to large car companies to boost the industry. the defenders in the 1529 Siege Of Vienna), it is a high risk move. The Low Risk Strategy For Career Change. high risk aversion)? More Industries Are In Crisis.

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MPUG

MAY 24, 2020

And we have been finalists for 2015, 2017 and 2018 as well. Raphael Santos: I have created some visualizations with Project and Visio, for example, have created some visualizations that allows us to create a risk matrix reports in Project Online. We have been nominated as Partner of the Year.

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