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IBM Project Manager Certificate: My Student Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I spent a lot of hours reviewing the materials and studying the individual courses, and I hope that time helps you make a choice about whether the course is a good fit for your career needs. You don’t need any prior knowledge or pre-requisite study, or any particular education requirements in order to take the certificate.

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Reading List for the Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Project Management Institute (PMI) [8] presents similar results about uncertainty, except that their results introduce an asymmetric cone where initial estimates vary between +75% and –25%, budgetary estimate between +25% and -10%, and the final estimate between +10% and -5%. 37–48, 2007. Quantifying IT Forecast Quality,” J. Eveleens and C.

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Agile project management- A tutorial

Binfire

The Agile project management methodology has been used by software engineers and IT professionals for the past sixteen years. In the late twenty century, many software engineering researchers in academia were studying the disturbing fact that most software and IT projects finish late or fail to finish at all.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

“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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

“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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 2: What to Measure and How to Report

MPUG

And today’s session is eligible for 1 PMI PDU in the technical category and the activity for claiming that with PMI is on the screen now. Well, because according to PMI, the Project Management Institute, 45% of projects experience scope expansion, 32% failed on their budgeting, and 16% were deemed complete failures.

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Top Solutions to Project Failure – Epicflow Research Part 2

Epicflow Blog

Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L. Great Planning Disasters by Peter Hall (University of California Press, 1982), recommended by Sean Doull-Connolly , a Senior Process Engineer at TIAA. Discussion in PMI Project, Program and Portfolio Management.