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Project Management Job Titles: Understanding the Types of Roles in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The ‘project manager’ job descriptions have a wide variety of roles and duties, which can make it hard to know what’s right for you. What ‘project manager’ means to one business will be slightly different to how another company uses the term. That’s what a project is.

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The Functions of a Project Management Office

Project Pulse Journal

What is a Project Management Office? A Project Management Office (PMO) is a centralized department within an organization that standardizes the governance of projects. A Project Management Office (PMO) isn't just about oversight; it's about empowering your projects to deliver real value.

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How To Make 2018 A Successful Year for Your Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

But what does it take to get there? I asked people two questions: What should people managing projects be aware of as we go into 2018 to make 2018 their most successful year ever? What will you be doing in 2018 to have your most successful year ever? Would you like to make 2018 a successful year for your projects? Let’s jump in.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. There was a Tweet two days ago from one of the founders of eXtreme Programming, that said.

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Newbies’ Guide to Scrum Project Management 101

nTask

Scrum” is a phenomenal subject – i.e. if you are familiar with it. As an Agile project manager, I have seen my fair share of so-called “Scrum Masters” and “Agile Experts” claiming to be masters of their craft. The truth, however, is that they don’t know a lot of things about Scrum and Agile. Introduction – Why Scrum?

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Enterprise IT and Embedded Systems (#EIT). Governance (#Governance).

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. Some Model-Based Systems Engineering process. Define the Probability Distribution Function for this range.