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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 assignment as a government project monitor was seen as an add-on to one’s normal job.

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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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PROJECT MANAGEMENT BENCHMARKING, an excellence enabling instrument

International Institute for Learning

This knowledge must include an understanding of the current strengths and especially weaknesses needing improvement. As an example, the aerospace division of a Fortune 500 company benchmarked against their competitors. This time, the results showed that they were poor in project management.

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

Planio

Technical documentation can quickly go from “here’s how to use this if you’re unfamiliar and have limited experience” to “here’s an unedited transcript of everything our developer told us about this obscure application of our API.” Once you’ve put your team together, writing technical documents comes down to a few simple steps.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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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. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs.

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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.

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