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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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Sprint Zero: Starting Off RightWith Rubin JenFriday, May 196:00 – 7:00 AM EDT and1:30 – 2:30 PM EDT

International Institute for Learning

Rubin also has extensive consulting experience in strategic and operational planning. Rubin has been helping teams and organizations in their Agile transformational journey since 2014, as a subject matter expert and as an Agile coach.

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The Agile Project Manager

International Institute for Learning

Rubin Jen has been in the project management field for over 25 years; Spanning aerospace, engineering, telecom, software development, outsourcing, consulting, and government sectors. Rubin also has extensive consulting experience in strategic and operational planning.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT BENCHMARKING, an excellence enabling instrument

International Institute for Learning

As an example, the aerospace division of a Fortune 500 company benchmarked against their competitors. At the end of the benchmarking period, everyone in the aerospace group were hugging and congratulating each other after the results appeared showing how good they thought they were in project management.

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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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9 Inspirational Teamwork Examples

ProjectManager.com

This included teams of scientists, engineers and technicians, many who had not worked in aerospace before. Each step of this process had to be carefully planned among all parties, of course, but there would also be collaboration between writers and artists as they developed characters and conflicts to add drama to the stories.

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Increasing the Probability of Program Success

Herding Cats

We're working on a White Paper for the Joint Space Cost Council which is an organization composed of government (NRO, NASA, USAF, and others) and industry representatives with an interest in space. Risk-Adjusted Plans. Plans for Increasing Maturity of the Deliverables. Create a Risk Tolerant Technical Approach and Plan.