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The 5 Skills You Need For Managing Complex Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Tera Simon spoke about this at the Digital Project Management Summit 2016. She explained about how her company had to standardize and bring together 12 disparate government websites. She shared examples from her experience on complex projects and gave us tips on how to manage the work when it seems unmanageable. Numerous moving parts.

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22 Manufacturing Conferences to Attend in 2018

Appfluence

Looking to add manufacturing conferences to attend in 2018 to next year’s schedule? One way to expand your knowledge is to attend manufacturing conferences in 2018. Manufacturing is a field with tons of conferences, summits, and expos occurring year-round, in all parts of the world. Manufacturing Conferences in 2018.

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5 Steps to Finding the Path to Business Agility

International Institute for Learning

We can use many patterns that have been identified and verified as good practices across many industries, including construction, government, telecommunications, travel, finance software development, and so on. However, we do not have to start from the drawing board, so to speak, every time.

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Innovation in project management: Inspiration from Dubai

Susanne Madsen

I recently spoke at Dubai International Project Management Forum ( DIPMF ) and was struck by the innovative theme of the conference. Perhaps it shouldn’t have come as a surprise. Already when I prepared for my presentation the organisers said, “Innovation is a big thing down here”, and indeed it is.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Each of these has been presented at a conference, published in a refereed journal, or a book or a chapter in a book, or presented during a client engagement. Project Governance. Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016. Governance.

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Without a Root Cause Analysis, No Corrective or Preventive Action is Credible - Part 1

Herding Cats

June Verner, Jennifer Sampson, and Narciso Cerpa, Second International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, 2008. “A The True Meaning of Root Cause and Root Cause Analysis (RCA),” Gary Jing, 2013 ASQ World Conference. Hooey, Safety Science, Volume 85, June 2016, Pages 241–257. Whitney and Charles B.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

“Project Risk Identification Based on the Interaction of Risks from the Approach of Multi-Agent Simulation,” Peng Huang, Peng Di, and Jinrui Li, 4 th International Conference of Energy Equipment Science and Engineering , 2019. Turof, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering , 400, 2018. “A Panaitescu, M. Panaitescu, L.