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PM, CEM, and Covid-19: Reflections

MPUG

We did our best to beef up security plans and deal with the resulting delays every time a band of terrorist blew something up, or worse. For most projects, we undertook massive reactionary workarounds just to move work forward, not to mention operating with a non-functioning budget and dealing with falling mortar rounds.

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Skills Of A CEO – Within Reach Of A Strategic PM?

The Strategic Project Manager

Financial Acumen – Understanding financial statements, managing budgets, and making financially sound decisions are fundamental. PM roles vary in terms of budget, analytical, planning, people management, and other dimensions of responsibility. Now all of these assume that the PM is gaining all of these different experiences.

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Scrum for Newbies: How to Use Scrum to Tame Chaos

Wrike

There was precious little time to create the inbound marketing content we were hired for. And even though it was birthed in the software development industry, it is just as effective in others — from manufacturing to marketing even with projects such as renovating a house!

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements

MPUG

This is part one of the series. I am the director of technology solutions and CTO for Edwards Performance Solutions. Thirty-two percent failed the project’s budget and was lost because of that, and then, overall, 16% of all projects started in the survey failed or deemed failures. That is a huge amount.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

“A hybrid uncertainty analysis method based on random set theory,” Yongsheng Duan, Jiguang Zhao, and Peng Chen, Advances in Engineering Research (AER) , Volume 130, 5 th International Conference on Frontiers of Manufacturing Science and Measuring Technology, “The Risk concept?Historical Brian Derfer, CTO. Order Contract, C.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

“A hybrid uncertainty analysis method based on random set theory,” Yongsheng Duan, Jiguang Zhao, and Peng Chen, Advances in Engineering Research (AER) , Volume 130, 5 th International Conference on Frontiers of Manufacturing Science and Measuring Technology, “The Risk concept?Historical Brian Derfer, CTO. Order Contract, C.