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What Is a Capital Improvement Plan & How to Create One

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A capital improvement plan can guide an organization when it’s trying to figure out which large projects or purchases in which they should invest. Are there benefits to developing a capital improvement plan? Can project management software facilitate this work? This is why you want to rank the projects by priority.

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The Project Charter Lays the Foundation

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Regardless of the format, articulating the project’s intent is invaluable and harder than expected. Developing the charter often requires negotiating with stakeholders to align their support for the project. Including the project manager early in the process is advantageous. The purpose establishes the “north star.”

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Scheduling and Cost Control in a Complex Environment

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

Prof Flyvbjerg gives the example of Eurotunnel: it’s hard to argue that it’s a magnificent achievement, but it has been shown that at the time of construction, economically there were many better infrastructure projects to spend £8bn on. And of course, for our projects and our organisations, we don’t have Governments to bail us out.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Risk Management is Project Management for Adults - Tim Lister. Risk Management Papers. “A 255, April 2010.

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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. Use of Benefits of Tools for Project Risk Management,” T.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

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Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Product Development (#ProdDev). Governance (#Governance). Agile Software Development (#ASD). The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. Enterprise IT and Embedded Systems (#EIT).

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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. For software development starts with.