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How to List Projects on Your Resume: A No Stress Guide

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If you are a software engineer, show me your software projects. If you work in legal project management , talk about your process improvement initiatives or projects relevant to the job you are going for today. Let’s assume the skill you want to show is process improvement. Use action verbs.

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Project Management Maturity Models: A Basis for Reaching Your Organization’s Business Success

Epicflow Blog

The main purpose of determining project management maturity is to assess the actual state of the project management process in an organization as well as detect areas and direction for its improvement. . Assessment presents methods, processes, and procedures that a company can use to self-assess its maturity. .

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Top Solutions to Project Failure – Epicflow Research Part 2

Epicflow Blog

Most organizations build structures and processes designed to prevent project failure. However, Muratgali Karimsakov , a Project Engineer at Karachaganak Petroleum, warns that lessons learned must be applied in the right way: “Unfortunately, the lessons learned process in many companies doesn’t work properly.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

This quote demonstrates a lack of understanding of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty and the processes and events that create uncertainty. There is naturally occurring variability from uncontrolled processes. Aleatory uncertainty is expressed as a process variability. First, let's establish a principle.

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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. Norton, The Systems Engineering Process Office, MITRE Corporation, 6 June 1999.

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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. Norton, The Systems Engineering Process Office, MITRE Corporation, 6 June 1999.

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How to Start a Career in Project Management: Answers to FAQ

Epicflow Blog

Prince2 certification (pricing starts from $540); . First and foremost, you should learn and understand all processes that take place in project management, what obstacles there are on the way to project delivery, the way projects operate, the way people work for projects, the general scheme of functioning, and of course your role in it. .