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A History of PMI & Its Role in Project Management

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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 Project Management Institute also sets the standard for ethics in the field. Quick Facts About PMI.

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Summary of Capabilities Based Planning

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Capabilities-based planning enables the enterprise to identify business and technical needs, allocate resources, and track activities and outcomes. . This approach assures business value is connected with the strategy not just measures of the passage or time and consumption of money and the production of technical features. .

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Matrix Management for Strategic Projects

International Institute for Learning

These differences due to the new types of projects are expected to cause significant changes to how we worked previously in a matrix organization. The challenge was the need to solve often complex technical problems that required the sharing of information between functional (i.e., Understand Matrix Management. vertical) units.

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Risk Management Resources

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Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

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This knowledge starts with Reference Class Forecasting which is a method of predicting the future (cost, schedule, technical performance) by looking at similar past situations and their outcomes. For technical design, there are existing designs, patterns, packages, architecture references, and similar resources. I suspect the latter.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

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At the other end of the spectrum, when systems are not well defined and each is individually reacting to technology and mission changes, the environment for any given system becomes essentially unpredictable. For technical design, there are existing designs, patterns, packages, architecture references, and similar resources.