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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. Client/Stakeholder Collaboration In the early years of growth, the aerospace and defense contractors were marketing- and sales-driven companies.

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Agile. Creativity. Innovation.

International Institute for Learning

During the last two decades there has been the emergence of a number of software development methods as a response to the inefficiency of existing software development methods in rapidly changing environments (Highsmith, 2004). ” Software Development 9(8): 28-32. By Luigi Morsa. July 2013).

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A Phase-Gate Process in Project Management: Questions and Answers

Epicflow Blog

Initially, such an approach was applied to large-scale engineering projects and later became popular with other industries. Currently, the approach is used to manage R&D, product or software development projects or other large and complex initiatives. These were the phases applied for the product development projects.

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

Herding Cats

But before going further, let's establish the definitions we need to understand and apply Root Cause Analysis needed to discover the corrective and preventive actions to increase the probability of project success - especially Software Project Success. A Correction fixed the immediate non-conformance. All for the want of a nail.

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Project Management, Performance Measures, and Statistical Decision Making

Herding Cats

I work in the Software Intensive System of Systems domains in Aerospace, Defense, Enterprise IT (both commercial and government) applying Agile, Earned Value Management, Productive Statistical Estimating (both parametric and Monte Carlo), Risk Management, and Root Cause Analysis with a variety of capabilities. OMB A-11 Part 7.

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Managing in Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

This is an immutable principle that impacts planning, execution, performance measures, decision making, risk, budgeting, and overall business and technical management of the project and the business funding the project no matter the domain, context, technology or any methods. Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister.

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2024 Events for Project Managers, Business Leaders, and Industry Professionals

Epicflow Blog

2024 Healthcare Project Delivery Conference January, 30-31, San Diego, USA This year’s conference will focus on implementing developments in procurement, design, financing, and O&M in healthcare projects. The participants will learn how healthcare providers overcome resource constraints and deliver new developments.

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