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Organizational Process Assets: What does that even mean?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OPAs and the PMP exam Let’s face it: I first came across the term OPA while reviewing PMP exam training material. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at what organizational process assets are, why you would use them in project management and some best practices for utilizing these important tools.

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Service Management and The Post Office Scandal

The IIL Blog

Why Governance is Important By Sophie Hussey Picture yourself on a stage in a massive room at a conference at the ExCeL in London, about to take part in a panel discussion about The Post Office scandal and the links to service management. Instead, we will focus on the purpose of service management and why governance is important.

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Project Management Blog Roundup: The Best of 2021

Ganttic

Tuck into some of the best project management blogs of 2021. Adding to the content that we at Ganttic enjoy reading, we’ve put together a roundup of the 15 best PM blogs for the new year. Dive in and discover what might be your next favorite blog! To the blogs! New beginnings. New resolutions. So what’s yours?

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Why do projects fail? (Includes examples!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here are some high-profile failed projects: Following an internal review, Multiplex, the Australian development company responsible for the reconstruction of the Wembley Stadium, became aware that costs for the project were escalating to the point that the company would make a loss of £750 million on the project. billion to £10.9

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

The term scrum was introduced in a “Harvard Business Reviewarticle from 1986 by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka. It’s a less technical method of project management that doesn’t put as much emphasis on task order or scheduling, but rather on balancing resources and keeping them flexible. Kanban Methodology.

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The Evolution of Project Management

The IIL Blog

We have read books and journal articles on various project management topics. When the Department of Defense (DoD) decided to expand the need for more technical projects following World War II, pressure was placed upon the aerospace and defense community to develop expertise in project management. degree in a technical discipline.

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7 Ways to Sell Agile to Project Stakeholders

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Here are some tips to get an Agile conversation going, even if in the background: Apply Agile changes to your team and speak to these changes in status reports and during project reviews. For example, the United States federal government adopting Agile has meant a rise in job openings requiring Agile project management expertise.

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