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5 Notorious Failed Projects & What We Can Learn from Them

ProjectManager.com

Surprisingly, Sony continued to produce Betamax all the way into 2016. But soon the market had options that were cheaper and better than Betamax, making it a failed project. The NASA investigation that followed said the failure was due to a faulty designed O-ring seal and the cold weather at launch, which allowed for the leak.

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15 Powerful Benefits of Project Management

Project Bliss

This article was originally published on September 30, 2016, and has been updated. Can you easily explain the value you provide to an organization as a project manager? You don’t make sales, write code, or provide customer service. Budget and Cost Management . You’re a project manager. Be proud of yourself.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian

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The Best Time Tracking Software of 2018

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If you’re here, it means that you’re looking for time tracking software that you will use yourself or with your team. Harvest – a time tracking and invoicing tool to ease project delivery and billing. Capterra and G2 Crowd are two reliable user review platforms that aim to provide objective user feedback.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

Microeconomics is applicable to the development is software systems. If we look at the discipline of software engineering, we see that the microeconomics branch of economics deals more with the types of decisions we need to make as software engineers or managers. Software engineering economics." Macroeconomics is not. .

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

And when you hear estimates are a waste you'll realize that person must work in a de minimis project, where those paying have no need to know how much it will cost, when the project will be done, and what Capabilities they'll get for that time and money before the time and money runs outs.

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2020 Challenges and Trends in Construction

Epicflow Blog

Many of you have heard about a $140,000 3D printed house in China in 2016 and probably read the news about the popularity of this approach for constructing buildings in Dubai. But due to climate change, most corporations do their best to ensure eco trends in their production this year, and construction is no different. .