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Project Management Maturity Models: A Basis for Reaching Your Organization’s Business Success

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In particular, the high level of PMM means that: Projects are delivered on time and budget; Risks and changes don’t derail projects; Projects are aligned with a company’s business objectives; The delivered output meets stakeholder expectations; A company is competitive on the market. . Book a call with our expert. .

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Why Johnny Can't Estimate? (Update)

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Mine is in hard science and systems engineering. Some colleagues have engineering or finance educations. Let's start with the core issue on all software development projects. Here's a book that shows how to do that no matter the domain. . This book describes how to manage these processes by: Stating the problem.

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Why Johnny Can't Estimate?

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Some colleagues have engineering or finance educations. This book provides a clear, complete understanding of how to estimate software costs, schedule, and quality using real-world information. . Softwarte projects are often late and over budget leading to major problems for customers. How and when to reestimate.

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Risk Management Resources

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Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.

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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

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This is a recurring theme of #NoEstimates it's a waste to me the developer, I'd rather be coding , I'm not good at estimating , I see no value in my making estimating when you're just going to use them against me when I'm late and over budget. Root Cause: Productivity is the efficacy of the investment of time, talent, and money.

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Deconstruction the #NoEstimates Conjecture

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Let me point out an obvious problem - software projects go over budget and are late. Here's the actual article Project Management Tools and Software Failures and Successes , so read that last paragraph to see that cause. What is repeated by NE advocates is not actually what the book and the derived papers say.