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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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PROJECT MANAGEMENT BENCHMARKING, an excellence enabling instrument

International Institute for Learning

This can include: Project Management Institute (PMI ® ) publications. 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.

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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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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

Keys to Project Success: 48% say the team’s technical skills. 26% say effective team communication. Lean & Test Driven Development (TDD) – 11%. Feature Development Driven – 9%. Dynamic Systems Development Method – 3%. Aerospace/. PMI Agile Certified Practitioner holders: 5,265. [14]. Other – 6%.

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A Better Microsoft Project: Workload Levelling and Resource-Critical Path

MPUG

If you manage a resource-constrained project, you will often artificially delay activities as to not overwork (or burn out) your team members. Examples are software development, new product development, pharmaceutical clinical studies, telecommunication, research and development, education, and government projects.

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Reduce the Risk – Share the Success

International Institute for Learning

By Luigi Morsa , Aerospace Engineer and Project Manager, SII Engineering & IT Risk Management is the act or practice of dealing with risk. It includes planning for risk, assessing (identifying and analyzing) risk issues, developing risk handling strategies, and monitoring risks to determine how they have changed (Ref. [1]).

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