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2022 Aerospace and Defense Industry Trends

Epicflow Blog

Aerospace and defense industry is gradually recovering from the pandemic consequences, but still remains vulnerable as the world hasn’t fully overcome this crisis yet. Following the adoption of various initiatives aimed at reducing the negative effect of industries on climate change (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. 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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Successful Project Delivery in Aerospace and Defense: Success Criteria

Epicflow Blog

If you want your initiative to be successful, it’s a good idea to determine what success will look like for this particular project. . In aerospace and defense projects, there should be no room for ambiguity regarding the desired outcomes. The importance of defining success criteria for aerospace and defense projects.

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The Four Actions Framework – For Strategic Project Managers

The Strategic Project Manager

Raise – They raised the level of innovation and efficiency in the aerospace industry by focusing on rapid prototyping and iterative design processes. Eliminate – SpaceX eliminated reliance on government contracts as the primary source of revenue by expanding into commercial satellite launches and other space-related services.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT BENCHMARKING, an excellence enabling instrument

International Institute for Learning

Gap can also exist for performance improvement expectations such as: Reduction in risk by a certain percentage, cost, or time. But we view the transitioning risk template as proprietary knowledge not to be shared.”. As an example, the aerospace division of a Fortune 500 company benchmarked against their competitors.

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Without a Root Cause Analysis, No Corrective or Preventive Action is Credible - Part 1

Herding Cats

Root Cause is the fundamental initiating cause on a causal chain leading to a failure of a process which results in a recurrence of the problem. The causal chain of Actions and Conditions must be traced back to the initiating root cause. 02202, The Aerospace Corporation, 30 May 2014. The outcome is not likely the root cause.

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A New Way to Recognize the Achievements of Project Managers

The IIL Blog

Years ago, many aerospace and defense industry projects were managed using war rooms. Disagreements between the project manager, client, contractors, stakeholders and governance groups, lasting possibly for the duration of the project. Some battles on projects are so intense that we consider them as all-out wars.