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5 Reasons Engineers Need to Develop Project Management Skills

LiquidPlanner

Project Management Institute’s (PMI) 2016 report The High Cost of Low Performance: How will you improve business results? cited that $122 million was wasted for every $1 billion invested due to poor project performance. The reason should be obvious: project team members and stakeholders are humans or groups of humans.

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PMI Are some more equal than others?

The Lazy Project Manager

So what is my concern and why am I mentioning PMI? So what is my concern and why am I mentioning PMI? Well I’m not just focusing on PMI but the behaviour I am concerned about seems to be rather more prevalent within PMI and PMI Congresses than others. Let me explain. I go to project management conferences, a lot.

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How To Make 2018 A Successful Year for Your Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This article, How To Make 2018 A Successful Year for Your Projects , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. You can scroll down and get the highlights, and then read all the advice in the How To Make 2018 A Successful Year for Your Projects ebook. High performing teams are motivated by an exceptional vision.

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How to Develop the Essential Skills to Be a Project Manager

Wrike

5 technical skills for project managers (and how to improve them). One important note: In addition to the technical competencies we’re dishing out, project managers will also need to develop at least some basic subject matter expertise in whatever industry they’re managing projects. Develop this skill. Develop this skill.

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43 Learning Resources for New and Experienced Project Managers

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Results Without Authority: Controlling a Project When the Team Doesn’t Report to You by Tom Kendrick. Leading a project team that doesn’t report to you is a whole new challenge in itself. Kendrick walks through how to motivate a team to contribute to a project’s success. You’re not alone. The People and Projects Podcast.

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How to Build a Robust Project Risk Culture [8 Steps]

Online PM Courses

Risk culture is a shared set of processes, knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and values about how to deal with risk. If your team has a common purpose and approaches risk in a consistent way, which reflects that purpose, that will protect your project and make it more secure. How to Build a Robust Project Risk Culture. Sponsorship.

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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.