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From Predictive to Agile – How to Choose the Right Project Management MethodologyBy Harold Kerzner and Cyndi Snyder Dionisio

International Institute for Learning

Free Newsletter | Learner Login Search Search Close this search box. The authors discuss the shortcomings of the waterfall approach in terms of project type, performance tracking, risk management, and governance. They point out that traditional methodologies lack flexibility and value when applied to strategic or evolutionary projects.

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Current State and Future Prospects of Scrum and Agile Development in Japan

Scrum.org

日本語版はこちら ) The state of Scrum and agile development In 1986, professors Takeuchi and Nonaka published the famous white paper entitled, "The New New Product Development Game" (¹). This interest from people around me encouraged me to do some research and thinking on the subject, which I have summarized in this article.( Why is that?

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Tailoring Your Project Management Approach: A Beginner’s Guide

Project Pulse Journal

This customization process involves a modification of methodologies and governance structures, transforming project management into a strategic asset as dynamic as the projects it aims to guide. Such interactions facilitate and establish a collaborative environment where teams can openly discuss policy alignment and governance integration.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Here are my collected works, presentations, briefings, journal papers, articles, white papers, and essays, used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've developed and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems domain. Project Governance. Open Loop / Closed Loop Project Controls.

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Fallacy of the Day

Herding Cats

In the Project Controls paradigm, Value is a measurable attribute of the project controls process - a Closed Loop Control measure. Each of these measures participates in the Closed Loop Control Systems. This is the basis of Closed Loop Control. The units of measures of Cost and Time are straightforward. is a Fallacy.

2005 37
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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

A lot of what those people have built upon are really sound foundational principles, like encapsulated teams at the work surface level, Kanban or flow based kind of governance models on top, right, at a lean agile metrics that enable us to measure improvement, things like that.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Governance (#Governance). Journal Papers, White Papers, and Essays on Project Success (#Papers). Agile and Earned Value Management Bibliography of papers, books, and thesis (#Biblio). Project Governance - project management is a well-defined concept found in many guidebooks and Bodies of Knowledge.