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Project Portfolio Management in Aerospace and Defense Organizations: Main Difficulties and Ways to Overcome Them

Epicflow Blog

In the aerospace and defense industry, it’s intensified by the specificity and complexity of the domain. What are the most significant challenges of project portfolio management in aerospace and defense companies? It’s no less important to prioritize tasks for the team members. Let’s figure these issues out in the article.

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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 starting point was the selection of individuals to function as project managers.

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Team Management: The Key of to Success

International Institute for Learning

According to a common and general definition, Team Management can be seen as the ability of an individual (manager) or of an organization to lead a group of people to accomplishing a task or common goal. Good management of a team means to do the best by and for the employees. By Luigi Morsa.

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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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Matrix Management for Strategic Projects

International Institute for Learning

The intent is to build cross-functional project teams. In simple matrix structures, each horizontal line on the organizational chart represented a team or project and is headed up by a project or program manager whose prime responsibility is in a liaison role to coordinate information across functional units. vertical) units.

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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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2021 Defense Industry Challenges and Trends: the United States

Epicflow Blog

What are the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for the aerospace and Defense realms? What new developments is the Department of Defense working on now? But at the moment, 17 teams with more than 2,200 personnel are engaged in assisting coronavirus disease vaccination efforts. . According to it, .

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