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

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Once you’ve done the work of a product breakdown structure and the related product documentation, you can feed that information into project management software and jumpstart your project plan. The product breakdown structure can be used in any product management situation, though it stems from the PRINCE2 methodology.

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How to Create a Project Initiation Document (Template Included)

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What Is a Project Initiation Document (PID)? A project initiation document (PID) is used to define the project thoroughly. It’s similar to a project charter but more in-depth. It’s used primarily in PRINCE2 methodology, which is an acronym that stands for PRojects IN Controlled Environments.

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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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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project. They are uncertainties that we can't do anything about.

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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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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Episode 185 – Redefining Project Success through Sustainable Project Management

Velociteach

He goes, “Well, I’m a project manager, but I work in agile. We develop software for the airline industry.” And as for cost! We have no idea how much this project cost – mostly because what Pharoah wants, Pharoah gets & money wasn’t really a limiting factor. So was this project a success?