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Exploring the differences: Projects vs operations examples

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Look around your personal life for all of the projects you are managing as well. Finding case studies of projects There are lots of case studies available to read about projects. For example, in the UK, the Infrastructure and Projects Authority manages projects and shares best practices for UK government projects.

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What Is a Capital Improvement Plan & How to Create One

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Can project management software facilitate this work? A capital improvement plan (CIP) is used by organizations to make smart budgeting decisions on which large projects or purchases to pursue. This is a tool used more often by public entities such as local governments for major public expenditures. Review and Adoption.

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How to Create a Project Assumptions List: Examples and Template Included

Project Bliss

Schedule: tasks, durations, and dependencies needed to complete the project. Methodology – the approach you’ll take to completing the project. Technology – this could cover software development, platforms, environments, and infrastructure. Delivery: Project servers arrive configured as expected.

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Project Contingency: The Ultimate Guide

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Calculating Anticipated Final Cost and confidence range. Image source: IPA Cost Estimating Guidance , 2021, Figure 11, reproduced under the Open Government Licence 3.0. Project Budget Components (adapted from PMBOK® Guide 6th Edition 7.3.3.1 Cost Baseline available through PMIstandards+ ).

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project. They are uncertainties that we can't do anything about.

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