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The Functions of a Project Management Office

Project Pulse Journal

A Project Management Office (PMO) is a centralized department within an organization that standardizes the governance of projects. Controlling PMO Industry Application - A controlling PMO is common in regulated industries like pharmaceuticals, healthcare, and finance. What is a Project Management Office?

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

Managerial Finance - the branch of finance that concerns itself with the managerial significance of finance techniques. With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. 5] "Decisions in software development projects management.

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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

Herding Cats

Although I understand measuring productivity could work well for repeatable activities, it's hard to believe it works well for abstract and, ultimately, non-repeatable tasks like software development. Thus, the common approach to "measure productivity" is to compare the estimates against what, in fact, happened.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

Managerial Finance - the branch of finance that concerns itself with the managerial significance of finance techniques. With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. 5] "Decisions in software development projects management.

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Start with Principles, Not Personal Anecdotes

Herding Cats

We can estimate the total cost, total duration, and the probability that all the Features will be delivered on the program we are working for the US Government. Or ANY software project for that matter. In the project domain, an estimate is a calculated approximation of some desired measurement. First a definition.

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Project Versus Product in Agile Development

Herding Cats

This quote is typically the basis of proposing agile software development over traditional software development. In the product development world, the funding, recording of revenue, management of staffing at the financial level is managed as a Project. It’s impossible to gather all requirements in beginning 4.

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

Government – Federal. Government – City/State/Local. Popularity by Industry: Finance – 87%. Implement/enhance performance measurement process – 39%. [13]. Finance – 93%. Benefits of High-Performing PMOs: 45% more projects aligned with business objectives. 116,100. . 113,000. . Information/.

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