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Public Infrastructure: Project Management as a Key Success Factor

Inloox

Even though this project not quite reaches the epic financial miscalculation of Berlin’s BER airport, it again shows the difficulties realizing public infrastructure projects within their tightly constraint project plan. There are others, which are entirely preventable. Public construction projects require approval.

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Infrastructure Improvements: Guidance on How to Be Successful

MPUG

Infrastructure Improvements When technology managers talk about infrastructure, they are referring to foundational elements such as network switches, servers, backup systems and security devices. As these infrastructure elements age, you should start planning for when they will be updated or replaced.

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Agile Infrastructure Transformation and TBM

Leading Agile

Questions of how does Agile apply to infrastructure and what does TBM have to do with Agile were in my mind. Agile in Infrastructure. I spent quite a bit of time with part of a large infrastructure and ops group (over 2000 people and $1B of spend) in re-educating them in how the fundamentals of Agile applied to them as well.

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General Conditions in Construction: Definitions & Best Practices

ProjectManager.com

Then there are the project costs, in which general conditions offer infrastructure and resources for the general contractor and trade subcontractors to complete all project phases. The costs related to the infrastructure that allows the project to be constructed are outlined in the general conditions. We’ll get to that later.

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Living With Technical Debt: Balancing Quality and Perfection

Speaker: Cliff Gilley, The Clever PM

Unexpected details pop up, as small as UX that needs clean-up, and as big as a previously unforeseen flaw in the infrastructure of a project. Whether you like it or not - because it can’t be avoided. We have to accept that nobody gets away without some technical debt.

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Top 11 Cities for Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

That’s promising, and could well be as a result of the increasing investment in infrastructure projects. With the average project manager salary coming in at US$101,381 that’s a lot of money being spent on securing top talent for the multitude of infrastructure projects happening in the city. That’s a lot of infrastructure upgrades!

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What Is a Construction Site? Site Planning and Site Inspection 101

ProjectManager.com

There are also industrial and infrastructure ones. Infrastructure construction sites: The last of our four main construction site types is infrastructure, which can be anything from roads and bridges to airports. The draw inspection makes sure that the lender knows that the project is progressing as planned.