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5 Reasons Engineers Need to Develop Project Management Skills

LiquidPlanner

Here’s a lesson I’m thankful I learned early in my career: successful engineering projects rely more on non-technical skills than technical skills. One can’t design a building without knowledgeable, skilled structural, MEP, and fire engineers. An airplane isn’t safe unless there are skilled aeronautical engineers involved.

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Project Management and Artificial Intelligence: Bring It On!

The IIL Blog

Generating the data to feed the AI engine may also be a challenge. It could generate insights into the stakeholders’ interests, power, influence, and engagement. AI tools could generate a stakeholder-specific analysis of concerns, engagement, and influence. I enjoy facilitating a meeting but hate the follow-up work.

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Summary of Capabilities Based Planning

Herding Cats

A Metric Framework for Capability Definition, Engineering and Management Seventeenth Annual International Symposium of the International Council On Systems Engineering (INCOSE) 24 - 28 July 2007. Capabilities-Based Engineering Analysis (CBEA), Mike Webb, MITRE Corporation. Capability engineering for strategic decision-making M.

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

It is no surprise that the researchers conclude that “Product Owners perform a wide range of challenging activities which require experience and high-status in order to be able to exert influence”. Product Owners perform a wide range of challenging activities which require experience and high-status in order to be able to exert influence.”.

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Project Success: Implementation AND Adoption

The IIL Blog

Demonstrate Early and Often Traditional project management practices rely on an engineering model. Watchers take a “wait and see” approach and are heavily influenced by early indicators of success or failure. Once the walking-skeleton is built, it incrementally expands its functionality. Leaders embrace change.

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

Scrum.org

Another approach is to track many organizations over time as they adopt Agile methodologies, while also measuring anything else that could influence their results other than agility itself. In 14th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) (pp. But how can one feasibly do that? 2010, April).

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Unintended consequences of metrics

Musings on Project Management

In the online "Cross Talk -- Journal of Defense Software Engineering" for Sept Oct 2016 there is a an article entitled "Positive Influences and Unintended Consequences" by Rob Ashmore and Mike Standish of the U.K.

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