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

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The main purpose of determining project management maturity is to assess the actual state of the project management process in an organization as well as detect areas and direction for its improvement. . Assessment presents methods, processes, and procedures that a company can use to self-assess its maturity. .

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Why Johnny Can't Estimate? (Update)

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Some colleagues have engineering or finance educations. During this education process, we all have encountered texts that have laid out the principles and processes needed to do our job and deliver the needed capabilities for the needed cost on the needed date to accomplish the needed mission.

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Why Johnny Can't Estimate?

Herding Cats

Some colleagues have engineering or finance educations. During this education process we all have encountered texts that have laid out the principles and processes needed to do our job and deliver the needed capabilities for the needed cost on the needed date to accomplish the needed mission.

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Same Same but Different †

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Much of the conversation in social media around agile techniques seems to be based on the differences between the variety of choices of a method, a process, or a practice and definitions of terms for those choices. I work in a domain where systems are engineered for the customer. Design from a generalized perspective is purposeful.

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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. Norton, The Systems Engineering Process Office, MITRE Corporation, 6 June 1999.

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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. Norton, The Systems Engineering Process Office, MITRE Corporation, 6 June 1999.

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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

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After having worked for outsourcing, consultancy and product companies I believe that creating a place where people really trust each other is easier when software engineers and stakeholders are both part of the same organization. Similarly, product lifecycle management (PLM) integrates people, data, processes and business systems.