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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. Public Sector Project Manager Selection In most government agencies, PMs were seen more so as project monitors rather than project managers.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT BENCHMARKING, an excellence enabling instrument

International Institute for Learning

Step 5: Be able to implement the steps necessary to close the performance gap between your company and other companies/organizations. As an example, the aerospace division of a Fortune 500 company benchmarked against their competitors. Identification of governance and leadership effectiveness. Step 1: Know Your Own Processes.

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Project Management Mastery: Conquering Big, Hairy, Complex Projects (BHCP)

NimbleWork

The second required an understanding of government and public sector procurement process, benchmarking hardware and software systems and working with myriad vendors and computer system standards at a time, when no such systems or standards had ever existed. .

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Mitigating Cognitive Biases in Risk Identification: Practitioner Checklist for the Aerospace Sector,” Debra L. 11, “Closed-Form Approach for Epistemic Uncertainty Propagation in Analytic Models,” Kesari Mishra and Kishor S. Federal Government, in support of OMB Circular A?123.”. Emmons, Thomas A. Larsen, Defense ARJ, 25, No.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Mitigating Cognitive Biases in Risk Identification: Practitioner Checklist for the Aerospace Sector,” Debra L. 11, “Closed-Form Approach for Epistemic Uncertainty Propagation in Analytic Models,” Kesari Mishra and Kishor S. Federal Government, in support of OMB Circular A?123.”. Emmons, Thomas A. Larsen, Defense ARJ, 25, No.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . This is a closed loop system optimization process applied to all the projects we work.