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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Project Performance Management. Connecting the 5 Principles and 5 Practices of Performance-Based Project Management ® To Increase the Probability of Project Success. Building a Credible Performance Measurement Baseline. Risk Management.

2003 54
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Understanding the Organizational Governance System as Project Managers

Project Pulse Journal

Imagine navigating project risks confidently with efficient resource utilization, managing projects for maximum efficiency, and promoting a culture of transparency and accountability within your project team and organization. However, it's not merely about mitigating risks; it's about transforming them into opportunities for value creation.

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Acting Like an Adult in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Risk Management is how Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. Both these drivers of risk will impact the probability of success of projects. 1] "Considering Risk and Resilience in Decision Making," Wilfredo Torres-Pomales, Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, NASA/TM-2015-218777. Related articles. Quote of the Day.

2009 28
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Managing in Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

This is an immutable principle that impacts planning, execution, performance measures, decision making, risk, budgeting, and overall business and technical management of the project and the business funding the project no matter the domain, context, technology or any methods. We need a formal risk management process.

2010 28
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Invoking "Laws" Without a Domain or Context

Herding Cats

Setting targets and measuring performance against that target is the basis of all closed loop control systems used to manage projects. In our domain this control system is the Risk Adjusted Earned Value Management System (EVMS). Without setting a target to measure against, we have: No baseline control. Doing the Math.

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

More than 90% of organizations perform some type of project postmortem or closeout retrospective. [9]. 64% of organizations say they frequently conduct risk management. [6]. How Project Success is Measured: 20% — Satisfied stakeholders. Managing small, low-risk projects. Managing medium-size, moderate-risk projects.

2015 60
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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Project Performance Management (#PPM). Risk Management (#RM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Project Performance Management. Management Processes.