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The Functions of a Project Management Office

Project Pulse Journal

A Project Management Office (PMO) is a centralized department within an organization that standardizes the governance of projects. It includes developing and standardizing processes and enforcing standardized templates, methodologies, and tools across all projects, ensuring a consistent approach to project planning and execution.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

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Nine Best Practices of Project Management , Software Program Managers Network (SPMN). Project Governance. Integrated Master Plan: The Foundation of Program Success , College of Performance Management, May 21, 2014. The Nine "I's" of Program Success ," College of Performance Management. Project Performance Management.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

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With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. What dos Done look like in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers? Andersson, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty , 54(1), June 2017. [3] Tinghog, and D.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. What dos Done look like in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers? Andersson, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty , 54(1), June 2017. [3] Tinghog, and D.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Product Development (#ProdDev). Governance (#Governance). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Those lessons are directly transferable to the management of software development teams.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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Take for example the deployment of an ERP system, the installation, and startup of a process control system, the release of a suite of embedded software controllers for a car, aircraft, petrochemical plant. A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. 55-66, 2017.

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Why Johnny Can't Do The Math

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The 2008 mortgage crisis for example (although many did an made lots of money), the government didn't. Software Development execution and modeling is Microeconomics not Macro. The author of quote read a Taleb book on Black Swans and assumes those Black Swans are in software development. taken from [3]).