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Best PMI-ACP Exam Prep Books

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Plus, authors tend to have a different way of presenting information, so if you couldn’t grasp the basics from your training, you’ll get a different take on the topic from a deep dive into the topic from a book. I would suggest it’s User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development by Mike Cohn. Short on time? Recommended.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Here are my collected works, presentations, briefings, journal papers, articles, white papers, and essays, used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've developed and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems domain. Presentations and Briefings. Managment Processes.

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The Functions of a Project Management Office

Project Pulse Journal

A well-implemented PMO can transform your project delivery process , ensuring that every project is set up for success from the start. It is a focal point for project oversight, resource management, and decision support, providing the organizational structure used to manage people, processes, and tools in project execution.

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Project Management, Performance Measures, and Statistical Decision Making

Herding Cats

In this domain, we are guided by credible results using principles, processes, and procedures to increase the probability of program success. The growth of cost and schedule is not unique to commercial development. Here's a typical graph showing a core problem in the software development domain. . References below. .

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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

Business Analysis A process in which an individual identifies business needs, defines solutions and facilitates change to meet organizational goals. Business case An organization will develop a document to justify the investment in a project (i.e., process, policy, practices, perceptions, etc.) effectively and efficiently.

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Are These DevOps Obstacles Getting in the Way of Your Agile Transformation?

Leading Agile

I’ll repeat this at the end, but if you want the presentation deck, it’s available. But before I present my five things, what do you guys think are the five impediments to an Agile transformation? We need to obtain buy-in, address ambiguity, and navigate the process. Anyway, that’s the introduction.

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Start with Principles, Not Personal Anecdotes

Herding Cats

The "bad management" is itself a symptom of untrained, inexperienced, unskilled decision making processes in the presence of uncertainty. . An Estimate is a value inferred for a population of values based on data collected from a sample of data from that population or generated from a model of the process being estimated.