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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. Since almost all of the projects were technical in nature, two criteria were established for someone to be appointed as a project manager (PM). This appeased DoD.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003. Risk Management Papers. “A

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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. reducible and irreducible ?

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

Epicflow Blog

A phase-gate process (also known as a stage-gate process) is an approach to managing projects and developing products, which breaks the whole procedure down into phases separated by gates. Currently, the approach is used to manage R&D, product or software development projects or other large and complex initiatives.

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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. Why Do Information Technology Projects Fail?” All for the want of a nail.

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Project Management Mastery: Conquering Big, Hairy, Complex Projects (BHCP)

NimbleWork

We successfully helped the insurance companies place orders with the winning bidders of those Unix systems, based on technical, commercial and support benchmarks and guidelines we helped define. Uncertainty: BHCPs face high levels of uncertainty, stemming from factors such as technological innovation, regulatory changes, and market dynamics.

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Choosing a Project Management Tool: Epicflow vs. Project Online by Microsoft

Epicflow Blog

In addition, some of them have an area they manage best, e.g. Primavera is considered to be more suitable for construction projects, Jira – for software development, Epicflow is for managing multiple projects and resources, and so on. . Risk Management. Connects cross-functional teams and helps them stay aligned. .