Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

It’s also useful to have books to carry around with you for reference when you can’t access your training materials. They all feature on PMI’s exam reference materials list. I believe you won’t need to read all of the books on the agile exam reading list, so pick one or two that suit your budget and your learning style.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics ( budget : US$5.9bn) were postponed as a result of the global pandemic, but investment in infrastructure and megaprojects continues. The Australian government has granted two initiatives close to Brisbane major project status. Over A$10bn has been committed by the Australian government to fund the upgrades.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 7, 2021

Without a project scope baseline you can’t measure performance effectively, which puts your project in danger of going off schedule and beyond budget. The document includes a work package, which defines the related tasks, and control accounts, which integrate the scope, budget, actual cost and schedule for those tasks.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

An Estimate is a value inferred for a population of values based on data collected from a sample of data from that population. The estimate can also be produced parametrically or through a simulation (Monte Carlo is common, but Method of Moments is another we use). . Estimates can be about the past, present, or future.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Baseline A baseline is an estimate of the project’s scope, schedule and costs that is created during the planning stage. Its main purpose is to serve as a reference that is compared against the project performance once the execution phase begins. Here’s how EVM can be applied over the course of a project’s duration.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 7, 2024

Discover the importance of organizational governance systems, delve into essential project-associated functions, learn how to navigate the project environment, and ensure you are communicating and building relationships with internal and external stakeholders. What is a System for Value Delivery?

Governance 52

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MPUG

APRIL 2, 2024

The project manager is responsible for coordinating the work of the team, monitoring progress, and making any necessary adjustments to ensure that the project is completed on time and within budget. Constraints typically relate to schedule, resources, budget, and scope. government began using it to manage complex defense projects.

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Planio

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Identify tasks, estimate timings, and map a timeline Step 4. For this reason, it’s sometimes referred to as a project action plan. Having a good understanding of your implementation plan helps manage other project areas, such as resource management, budgeting, and risk management. Absolutely not. Project control.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 20, 2018

Estimating Software-Intensive Systems: Project, Products, and Processes , Richard D. Stutzke is a starting point for estimating software projects. I recommend it for anyone starting out in the estimating business all the way to seasoned veterans. Project decisions in the presence of uncertainty cannot be made without estimates.

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Planio

MAY 8, 2023

In fact, the digital transformation market was estimated at a whopping $731.1 Manages a defined project budget. ?️ Here, you’ll define your high-level project scope , objectives, budget, risks, and timeline, pulling everything together to create an outline business case or project initiation document.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 15, 2024

Malinawan, PMP Choosing the appropriate tools and techniques to your advantage is essential for professionals working in the dynamic field of project management who must contend with issues like project budget constraints, tight deadlines, and constantly changing requirements. References: Project Management Institute.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.

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ProProfs Project Management

MARCH 6, 2020

As project managers and even as team members of a project, we all know that leadership and management is a field on its own, even referred to as a scientific field. . It is estimated that for every $1 billion invested in projects in the US, $122 million was wasted due to poor project performance. What is Project Life Cycle.

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Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Estimate a project timeframe: Create time estimates for each task. Similar past projects can help you here as a reference. and add that to your cost estimate. You should let the client know that your estimates are, in fact, just estimates and not a fixed cost. Such as licensing fees, etc.,

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Epicflow Blog

JUNE 11, 2021

These constraints are the project’s scope, budget, and time. So, the art of project management involves successful implementation of a project under conditions of limited time and budget; efficient utilization of available resources, either human or material; managing risks and uncertainty; dealing with stakeholders; supporting the team, etc.

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International Institute for Learning

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Perhaps the most significant reason for the slow growth of many needed project management changes was due to senior management’s desire for standardization of governance and execution for the multitude of traditional projects managed for external clients. Being on time and on budget is not necessarily success.

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Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 14, 2021

Perhaps you know the pessimistic but cautious statement that can refer to any kind of activity: “If anything can go wrong, it will”. These factors can result in project delays or falling beyond budget frames. Use work estimates instead of assessing the time that is going to be spent on tasks. It’s known as Murphy’s law.

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Techno-PM

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Target deliverables- Build road maps based on the market requirements and the expected size of effort collected during agile estimation and planning. Portfolio budget review- Every quarter confirm the budget allocated and make changes wherever required.

Lean 36

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MPUG

JUNE 19, 2023

What is a Change Order In project management, a change order refers to a documented request that modifies a project’s original scope, schedule, or budget. Budget Adjustment When there are project costs or funding changes, a change order may be needed to reflect the revised budget.

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Epicflow Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

It can be used as a reference point to assess the project progress at all phases of a project lifecycle. A project plan is based on a project charter, historical data and lessons learned, templates, and industry (or government) standards. . resource planning, cost estimation, schedule development, risk identification, etc.);

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Herding Cats

JULY 16, 2017

The GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide has 12 steps. You're late and over budget before you start, and have lowered the probability of technical success. Agile encourages change, but those changes must be recorded so a reference class can be built of time. There are not specific to Agile Software Development.

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Techno-PM

AUGUST 9, 2021

It is unique, non-repetitive, and is defined by project constraints- a budget, a crystal-clear scope and a set of requirements to be met. Project Management is defined as the management of a project’s budget, scope, and schedule in order to make it successful and eventually satisfy the needs of the stakeholders.

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Wrike

APRIL 25, 2023

A project charter is a brief, formal document outlining the scope, objectives, budget, and stakeholders of a project. It also serves as a reference point throughout the project execution, ensuring the team stays on track with the expected schedule and achieves the objectives without any misunderstanding, deviation, or avoidable risk.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The Project Manager is also referred to as the velocity maximizer , resource utilization maximizer , wishlist administrator, sidekick to management and progress reporter. Wikipedia , Oktober 2019 —. The Product Owner as a Project Manager. As a Product Owner, you don’t go to a steering committee.

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TrustRadius Project Management

JANUARY 28, 2022

In eDiscovery platforms evidence becomes electronically stored information, referred to as ESI. Utilizing software like this is a life saver, but it can kill small budgets. The software caters to legal companies, government agencies, and corporations. eDiscovery software revolutionizes the functionality of law firms.

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MPUG

JULY 7, 2019

Directives can be imposed by management (for example, to improve the image of a company), by government (like the Dodd-Frank Act to meet financial compliance regulations), and/or by external stimulus. This scorecard has evolved over time, and the Gartner Group estimates that over half of large U.S. Organizations use this approach.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

It includes analyzing the dependencies between different business functions, identifying vulnerabilities, and estimating the potential downtime and financial losses associated with disruptions. RTO refers to the maximum acceptable downtime for each critical function, while RPO refers to the maximum acceptable data loss.

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Online PM Courses

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Personal leadership refers to the depth of character, the personality traits and the behaviours you exhibit every day. Relies on governance, hierarchies and controls. This will be enough to deliver their project to schedule and on budget. Other leadership roles include: Setting up a governance structure. Governance.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2016

I work in the Software Intensive System of Systems domains in Aerospace, Defense, Enterprise IT (both commercial and government) applying Agile, Earned Value Management, Productive Statistical Estimating (both parametric and Monte Carlo), Risk Management, and Root Cause Analysis with a variety of capabilities. References below. .

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Performance Measurement Aerospace 2006 Estimate 28

Velociteach

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

in sustainable development and environment, and he has over 25 years of experience in various areas of project management including government, finance, consulting, manufacturing, and education. So those are some of the sustainable development goals that we’ll refer to. Our guest is Dr. Joel Carboni. He holds a Ph.D.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

I've seen estimates abused by bad managers, so let's NOT estimate and that will fix the behavior of Bad Managers." While the human behaviors are real and observable, conjecturing that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the outcome of those decisions, there is no principle to support that conjecture.

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Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Measures of Performance - are performance measures that characterize physical or functional attributes relating to the system operation, measured or estimated under specific conditions. With a need date, target budget, and expected capability outcome, a Closed Loop control system is the basis of increasing the probability of success.

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Online PM Courses

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

PMI picked this up again, in their report, ‘ Project Management Job Growth and Talent Gap 2017–2027 ‘ Here, PMI refers to the three sides of the PMI Talent Triangle as a ‘necessary mix of competencies’ The report finds a high demand for practitioners that have this mix. Governance (project, program, portfolio).

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PMI Technical Review Certification Leadership 75

Herding Cats

JUNE 2, 2017

So the first part is following standard estimating principles. which states clearly and concisely that decisions can be made (in the presence of uncertainty - which is ALWAYS present on software development projects - without estimating the impact of those decisions. Does that mean we don't need estimating? .

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Velociteach

JULY 3, 2023

She’s also an expert on productivity, documentation, governance, risk, and compliance; and has delivered 15 years’ experience as an auditor, accountant, analyst, problem solver, and independent consultant. It’s, I mean, the reality is you need budget if you want to do a thorough closeout. She’s based in Calgary, Alberta.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 29, 2017

How we can't possibly estimate the work since all the work is emergent. Office of Management and Budget, December 5, 1994, Operational Concept Description (OCD) , Data Item Description DI-IPSC-81430. It may refer to the use of one or more systems, as black boxes, to forward the organization’s goals and objectives.

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Planio

JUNE 19, 2023

In fact, studies have shown that around 27% of projects fail because of inaccurate task estimates, with another 11% failing due to undefined task dependencies. navy in the 1950s, the Program Evaluation Review Technique (or PERT) helps project managers worldwide estimate, plan, and visualize their projects in a way that allows them to succeed.

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