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Project Documentation: 10 Essential Project Documents

ProjectManager.com

Project managers know the importance of having project documentation. Project documents must be accurate and constantly updated to keep current with the project. Creating and managing project documentation throughout the project life cycle is critical for project success, but where to start?

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Do We Need Risk Management in Agile Projects?

MPUG

In this article, we’re addressing a common question in modern project management: Do we need risk management in agile projects? Do agile projects have risks associated with them? And do we want to let those risks run wild without any effort to contain them? Let’s expand that simple answer.

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Project Initiation: How to Start Your Project Off Right

ProjectManager.com

A business case is used to explain the reason for starting a project. A business case will be adaptable, fitting the size and risk of the proposal, but it will structurally be the same from project to project. It deals not in technical issues, but the business concerns of the project, and it needs to be comprehensive.

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Review Agile Governance and Audit

Henny Portman

The author follows a project life cycle from idea towards a usable product including governance and control. Based on an audit objective related to the position in the life cycle, you get the main risks to consider, the audit approach including a set of questions and a conclusion. A case study is included.

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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. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003. Risk Management Papers. “A

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Agile Project Management for Distributed Teams

nTask

Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering requirements throughout the project life cycle. Given below is a comprehensive guide for managers on how to lead their remote teams with Agile Project Management strategies for maximum productivity. . Make your team more Agile.

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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. reducible and irreducible ? De Meyer, C.