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5 Notorious Failed Projects & What We Can Learn from Them

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Failure is an unavoidable part of any project process: it’s the degree of failure that makes the difference. But a systemic collapse will derail the whole project. Sometimes a project reaches too far beyond its means and fails, which is unfortunate, but can also serve as a teaching moment. A lot, actually. The Lesson.

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Managing Project Assumptions and Risks

The IIL Blog

Management Plans The project management plan is created at the beginning of the project and describes how the project will be executed. Context and environmental factors should govern process requirements, specificity, and formality. For example, the projects must be delivered by a certain date.

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Risk Management Resources

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Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. A Risk Management Methodology for Project Risk Dependencies,” Tak Wah Kwan and Hareton K.N., Michael, International Journal of Project Management , 19, pp. 3, March 2002.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Michael, International Journal of Project Management , 19, pp. 24, 2010.

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The Best Time Tracking Software of 2018

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Hubstaff – time tracker that monitors your activity by taking random screenshots of your desktop. Improve time estimates: You can use p reviously tracked time entries as the main indicator for your future projects. Through them, you’ll make better estimates for following tasks and set more accurate deadlines for similar projects.

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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. Management Processes (#MP). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Agile Project Management (#APM). Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Management Processes. Planning and Scheduling (#PS).

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

So start here to build your academic foundation, that can be put to work to build a foundation of validated experience of making estimates in the presence of uncertainty and protect yourself from fallacious claims that estimates are a waste, not needed, and produce bad resulting in the decision making process for those paying you to produce value.