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Main Risks of Aerospace Engineering Projects: How to Implement Wise Risk Management into Your Organization

Epicflow Blog

The aerospace engineering sector deals with mostly large and complex projects. What are the most typical risks associated with aerospace engineering projects, and how to manage them effectively? Main Risks Affecting Aerospace Engineering Projects. developing a poor project plan), Executing (e.g.,

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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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Cost Overrun in Aerospace and Defense: The Main Causes and How to Prevent Them

Epicflow Blog

No project is immune to factors that may result in cost overrun – from a mistake made by a team member that will extend a project’s timeline to force-majeure events like pandemic or war. . However, most of the causes for cost overrun can be explained by poor project and resource management. Unrealistic cost estimates.

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Elevate your Project Management with SPICE

MPUG

SPICE (Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination) is a development framework that provides a structured approach for organizations to assess and improve their software development processes. With proper implementation, SPICE not only identifies weaknesses but maximizes strengths and development potential.

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5 Steps to Create Technical Documentation That’s (Actually) Helpful

Planio

For as long as we’ve had tools we need help using (and language to talk to each other), we’ve had technical documentation. Technical documentation refers to any document that explains the use, functionality, creation, or architecture of a product. Technical documentation isn’t just about capturing information.

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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. It’s easy to pin the blame for this project going off the rails (so to speak) by pointing at the contract requirements document and ascribing blame.

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Avoiding Mistakes: The Great Challenge

International Institute for Learning

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. Regardless of the good or bad reactions of a leader, the fact is that mistakes are part of the work and cannot be avoided. Consider automation for repetitive tasks.

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