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5 Notorious Failed Projects & What We Can Learn from Them

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Surprisingly, Sony continued to produce Betamax all the way into 2016. NASA officials went ahead with the launch even though engineers were concerned about the safety of the project. But everyone who drives a vehicle is going to have some interaction with this government agency. The Lesson. Okay, no one loves the DMV.

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The Most Popular Project Management Hacks Articles of 2016

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A news screen at the gym informed me that there are less than 30 hours left to go in 2016! 16 Podcasts To Grow Your Career In 2016. If you came up through the ranks in a technical or corporate area (technology, engineering, human resources etc), then your business acumen probably has some gaps. How To Develop Business Acumen.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

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Project Governance. Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016. Agile Project Management is Systems Engineering? Governance. Program Governance Roadmap. Principles of Program Governance. Agile Project Management.

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The Project Revolution: How to Succeed in a Project Driven World

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

The emergence of projects as the economic engine of our times may have been silent, but it is incredibly disruptive and powerful. such as the organisation, the constraints, the governance, the rationale and purpose of the project, within the Project Canvas these are treated as one inseparable whole.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Turof, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering , 400, 2018. “A De Meyer, C.

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

Herding Cats

Adam Alami, Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems / International Conference on Project Management / Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies, CENTERIS / ProjMAN / HCist 2016, October 5–7, 2016. Hooey, Safety Science, Volume 85, June 2016, Pages 241–257. Whitney and Charles B. 29 May 2013.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Turof, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering , 400, 2018. “A De Meyer, C.