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How to Create a Project Initiation Document (Template Included)

ProjectManager.com

Before you can start a project — even before you can plan it — you first need to define the project in detail. This allows the project manager to get buy-in from the project’s key stakeholders and ensure all the research has been done to move into the planning phase without any hiccups.

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What Is a Product Breakdown Structure (PBS)? Templates & Examples Included

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Projects are designed to deliver a product or a service within a specific timeframe and budget, a process that the project manager oversees. If that person is a product manager , he or she may apply a product breakdown structure (PBS). ProjectManager has Gantt charts that show you the entire project on a timeline.

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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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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.

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Project Cost Management – The Essential Things to Know and Do

Online PM Courses

Project Cost Management often puts people off. But there’s little your project sponsor, your client, or their Finance Director care about more than your budget and how closely you can stick to it. Project cost over-runs are common. The governance considerations for project cost management.

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Episode 185 – Redefining Project Success through Sustainable Project Management

Velociteach

The podcast by project managers for project managers. Projects are instrumental in defining an organization’s vision for a more sustainable future. WENDY GROUNDS: Welcome to Manage This, the podcast by project managers for project managers. Welcome to Manage This.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Turns out in the real world there is no such project. Uncertainty is related to three aspects of the management of projects: The external world - the activities of the project itself. Our knowledge of this world - the planned and actual behaviors of the project. One starting point is the value at risk.

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