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PRINCE2 and PMBOK: How They Compare

Rebel’s Guide to PM

First came PRINCE in 1989 as the UK government standard for IT project management. There are other differences: the PMBOK® Guide usefully covers procurement, whereas PRINCE2 assumes you are operating in an environment constrained by a contract, because of its roots in government IT projects. And what are the weak points?

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Taking the First Step toward Scrum

Scrum.org

Scrum is a lightweight framework that helps people, teams, and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems. Once firmly in the domain of software development, practitioners find that Scrum is equally applicable to many other kinds of complex work. Learn by doing with a side of instruction.

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Taking the first step towards Scrum

Scrum.org

Scrum is a lightweight framework that helps people, teams, and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems. Once firmly in the domain of software development, practitioners find that Scrum is equally applicable to many other kinds of complex work. Learn by doing with a side of instruction.

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The Ultimate Quick Guide To Building a Risk Management Plan

ProProfs Project Management

This can come in the form of any unplanned event that can affect any area of the project, from the team to technology. According to a 2015 study , only 15% of projects are meeting their deadline, and only 30% are finishing within budget. As a team or in groups identify the warning signs for each risk you have.

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The Social Project Manager

The Lazy Project Manager

But let’s expand this thought process to the project team as a whole and consider how such social tools impact the team performance. Thought: I believe that all project team members, including the project manager, who welcome any approach that reduces the amount of time invested (and for the greater part wasted) in meetings.

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Scrum Project Management

ActiveCollab

Scrum is a project management framework that helps small, close-knit teams develop complex products incrementally. In Scrum, teams develop software in sprints and release what they’ve worked on every two weeks. Scrum is the most popular agile project management framework that’s used in software development organizations.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.