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Project Management Guidelines (Part 1) - What We Can Learn From Project Failures

Inloox

Another reason can be the influence of the project environment or a high number of stakeholders. " Probably the most famous of all management laws is attributed to American military pilot and aerospace engineer Edward Aloysius Murphy, Jr. Projects are becoming increasingly complex. Which is why there are numerous interpretations.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT BENCHMARKING, an excellence enabling instrument

International Institute for Learning

All companies desire to remain competitive and continuously improve their project management performance by becoming more efficient and more effective in the execution of their project management processes. Step 3: Be able to analyze the business and project management processes of other companies/organizations.

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Summary of Capabilities Based Planning

Herding Cats

There have been some recent posts about managing scope, defining needed Features, determining how to release software to stakeholders - in both traditional and agile processes. The primary document produced from the Capabilities Based Planning process is the Concept of Operations. Davis, Russell D.

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A History of PMI & Its Role in Project Management

ProjectManager.com

Given its vast influence, it’s important to have a basic understanding of PMI and its history. It goes back to the 1960s, when project management became a discipline in aerospace, construction and defense industries. The organization also offers an ethics complaint and review process as a resource to project managers.

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9 Inspirational Teamwork Examples

ProjectManager.com

Their music is the soundtrack of an era and continues to influence musicians to this day. This included teams of scientists, engineers and technicians, many who had not worked in aerospace before. But those are the flowers that grew from the dirt. That fertile soil that nourished and sustained them was far from their Liverpool home.

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6 Top Project Management Books for Engineers and Manufacturers

LiquidPlanner

The book covers a wide array of industries, including medical and pharmaceutical, aerospace, manufacturing, and more. What sets it apart from other PM books is the focus on applying PM techniques and principles to the beginning stages of a project to influence the budget, scope, and timeline as early as possible. Oberlender.

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Matrix Management for Strategic Projects

International Institute for Learning

The concept of matrix management and horizontal (or multidirectional) workflow became common practice in the aerospace industry beginning in the 1970s mainly because of technical reasons stemming from the need for innovation, new product development, and improved quality management practices. The goal is short-term profitability.