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The Evolution of Project Management

The IIL Blog

Private Sector Project Manager Selection The birth of modern-day project management is most frequently attributed to the engineering community, mainly aerospace and defense. Unfortunately, the same PMs often were quite poor at writing reports. The starting point was the selection of individuals to function as project managers.

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Spain, Trains, and Incremental Delivery

Scrum.org

A very interesting (and sad) piece of news made headlines in Spain recently that provides some lessons about agile product development and incremental delivery. Agile teams face these problems all the time. We might have a poor understanding of our customer’s needs. Requirements change—technology changes.

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Team Management: The Key of to Success

International Institute for Learning

According to a common and general definition, Team Management can be seen as the ability of an individual (manager) or of an organization to lead a group of people to accomplishing a task or common goal. Good management of a team means to do the best by and for the employees. By Luigi Morsa.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT BENCHMARKING, an excellence enabling instrument

International Institute for Learning

This knowledge must include an understanding of the current strengths and especially weaknesses needing improvement. As an example, the aerospace division of a Fortune 500 company benchmarked against their competitors. This time, the results showed that they were poor in project management.

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An Introduction to Matrix Organization for a Business

Techno-PM

A matrix organization is a type of organizational structure in which individuals are grouped by both functional department and product team. This type of organization is often used in companies that develop products or deliver projects. The matrix organization was first used in the aerospace and defense industries in the 1950s.

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Avoiding Mistakes: The Great Challenge

International Institute for Learning

One of the greatest sources of “headache” for a project leader, a project manager or, in an Agile environment, a Squad Leader, is to discover that some mistakes have been made. Connected to the error finding there could be a bad reaction, because often, the impulsive behaviour is to look for the guilty, resulting in a loss of patience.

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

Agile Project Management. Keys to Project Success: 48% say the team’s technical skills. 26% say effective team communication. 19% say Agile techniques. Agile Project Management. 38% of organizations report using agile frequently. [6]. Most Popular Agile Tools and Processes: Scrum – 43%. Aerospace/.

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