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Applying the heuristics of “How Big Things Get Done” to adaptive delivery

Kiron Bondale

I have never had the opportunity to lead a megaproject (the term is typically used for those with a budget in excess of $1 billion), but over the last fifteen years I have read a number of the articles published by Prof. Professor Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner ‘s book “ How Big Things Get Done ” is one of the latter.

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Agile: Past, Present, & Future. A Conversation with Agile Trainer, Rubin Jen.

International Institute for Learning

Rubin Jen has been in the project management field for over 23 years, spanning aerospace, engineering, telecom, software development, outsourcing, consulting, not-for-profit and government sectors. He has worked with companies such as Bombardier Aerospace, Celestica, Accenture and the Ontario Government.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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A Phase-Gate Process in Project Management: Questions and Answers

Epicflow Blog

Currently, the approach is used to manage R&D, product or software development projects or other large and complex initiatives. If we speak about the product development projects, the stages of the phase-gate process will be as follows. [1] A Need for Speed in Aerospace and Defense. What are the phases of the process?

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. reducible and irreducible ?

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Best project management software

Binfire

Is it the first time we are using project management software? What is our budget for PM software? Do we need the PM tool we choose to be integrated with other software which we use? Risk management. project budgeting. CRM software (Salesforce.com, SugarCRM etc). Billing software. Google Drive.

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Modeling the Future is the Basis of Project Success

Herding Cats

In ISO 15288 this is the role of the Risk Management Processes. A second Critical Success Factor is the ability to predict what will happen in the future given the model of the project's activities and risks and the alternative designed as well as emerging designs and external processes. . This is the desired outcomes model.