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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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5 Steps to Create Technical Documentation That’s (Actually) Helpful

Planio

For as long as we’ve had tools we need help using (and language to talk to each other), we’ve had technical documentation. The first example of technical writing in English dates back to the Middle Ages when Chaucer wrote a guide to the astrolabe—a device used for measuring the distance of stars). Get peer reviews and make revisions.

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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. . Easy to understand color coding system. – technical support, .

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

NimbleWork

The second required an understanding of government and public sector procurement process, benchmarking hardware and software systems and working with myriad vendors and computer system standards at a time, when no such systems or standards had ever existed. These statistics underscore the scale and complexity of modern projects.

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Summary of Capabilities Based Planning

Herding Cats

There have been some recent posts about managing scope, defining needed Features, determining how to release software to stakeholders - in both traditional and agile processes. Capabilities-based planning enables the enterprise to identify business and technical needs, allocate resources, and track activities and outcomes. .

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. 61, September 2004.

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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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