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What Is a Program Manager? (Job Description Included)

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As with any profession, it’s also advisable for you to participate in professional events such as conferences and seminars to stay on top of the program management best practices. ProjectManager is award-winning software that helps program managers plan, schedule and track project costs, duration and more.

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Understanding the 8 Functions Associated with Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

Provide visibility into project progress data and market feedback to guide decision-making. Provide Resources and Direction Allocate resources effectively to support operations, tasks, and activities throughout the project phases and achieve targets for project costs and the whole project scope.

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A Short History of Project Management

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Another major project related happening was the growing popularity of value engineering (VE), which was widely used at General Electric. This functioned to help measure the value of alternatives (for example, using cheaper resources and/or materials to reduce project costs or design-to-cost) especially when there was a scarcity of resources.

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Risk Management Resources

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Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Causes of Risk Taking by Project Managers,” Michel N. Wakshull, Proceedings of the Project Management Institute Annual Seminars & Symposium , November 1?10, Dorofee, et.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Causes of Risk Taking by Project Managers,” Michel N. Dorofee, et.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Research clearly shows the root causes of most software projects cost and schedule overruns and technical shortfalls comes from poor risk management. Project manager) Losoi, H., Laitonen, J. and Ylilammi, K., Lorell, M.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

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Five Immutable Principles of Project Success - There are many (possibly too many) methods for successfully managing a project. But each method needs to be based on 5 Immutable principles to be successful, no matter the domain or context, PMI Spring Seminar , 2012, Austin TX. College of Performance Management , November 2013.