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Understanding the 8 Functions Associated with Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

Here are the 8 Functions Associated with Projects and related contexts: Provide Oversight and Coordination Ensure seamless coordination between departments to optimize project planning, processes, and resource allocation. Oversee the integration of new technologies and systems to align with strategic objectives.

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Risk Management Resources

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Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Management of Novel Projects Under Conditions of High Uncertainty,” A.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

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Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Project Performance Management (#PPM). Agile Project Management (#APM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Management Processes (#MP).

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Research clearly shows the root causes of most software projects cost and schedule overruns and technical shortfalls comes from poor risk management. Risk is the effect of uncertainty of objectives. from the Greek ??????µ?

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

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This knowledge starts with Reference Class Forecasting which is a method of predicting the future (cost, schedule, technical performance) by looking at similar past situations and their outcomes. For cost and schedule, there are databases containing 1,000's of past projects. Where do you find these Reference Classes ? .

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

At the other end of the spectrum, when systems are not well defined and each is individually reacting to technology and mission changes, the environment for any given system becomes essentially unpredictable. 4] "Explicating the dynamics of project capabilities," Andrew Davies and Tim Brady, . 6, No 5, October 2014. [3]