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Luck has Little to Do With Achieving Positive Project Outcomes

LiquidPlanner

Besides simply saving time by repurposing an effective project plan, you also will be less likely to overlook important tasks or input inaccurate task estimations. How many times have you been part of project teams who meet weekly just to update task status in the project software together? Disseminate information properly.

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Calming Project Management Anxiety

LiquidPlanner

An even better way to communicate project progress is through cloud-based project management software. Software like LiquidPlanner allows all project contributors to provide inputs such as updating task status, estimating work, and tracking time against tasks directly into the project plan.

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Falling in Love with Your Project Plans

LiquidPlanner

In my experience, project leaders do not accurately estimate tasks, they fail to set clear priorities, and do not realistically plan for unexpected but likely changes that always seem to emerge. The right PM software is a catalyst to success for you and your project team. Can you see what work may be at risk for running over.

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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. Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management.

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How Does the LiquidPlanner Scheduling Engine Work?

LiquidPlanner

At a high level, it’s because uncertainty and risk is built into project schedules. We replaced hard (and often unreachable) deadlines with ranged estimates based on real-world best/worst case scenarios. To learn more read our white paper, “ Managing Risk and Uncertainty in Technical Projects: The LiquidPlanner Approach.”.

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AI Assistants for Project Managers

Leading Answers

Do you analyze backlogs and scope outlines for potential risks, or review estimates for commonly missed activities? In the project management space, this is the technology that can help with checking for missed risks, rebaselining plans, recalculating the Cost of Delay for waiting initiatives, etc. Over-Reliance?

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Coherent Design and Development Process

Herding Cats

We're working on a white paper "Increasing the Probability of Program Success with Continuous Risk Management," for the Joint Space Cost Council, Scheduler's Forum. During our research, I found a paper "Management Disciplines: Harbingers of Successful Programs," David Acker, Defense Systems Management Review , Summer, 1979.

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