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What Is a Program Manager? (Job Description Included)

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In project management, a program is a set of related projects that are executed simultaneously by organizations to make the most out of their resources and maximize their return on investment (ROI). They manage and use resources across the various projects and programs in the program.

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A Short History of Project Management

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Have you ever wondered about the history of project management, or how it evolved into its’ present day usage? This article will cover most of the major project management happenings throughout history. The stages of time will cover the BC time period, the 1900’s where the root of modern project management was driven by the military, and we’ll end up looking at the ever evolving Agile methodology that more and more project manager are implementing now.

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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. Risk Management is Project Management for Adults - Tim Lister. Management of Novel Projects Under Conditions of High Uncertainty,” A. A Risk Management Methodology for Project Risk Dependencies,” Tak Wah Kwan and Hareton K.N., Use of Benefits of Tools for Project Risk Management,” T.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

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Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Project Performance Management (#PPM). Agile Project Management (#APM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM).

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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. Management of Novel Projects Under Conditions of High Uncertainty,” A. A Risk Management Methodology for Project Risk Dependencies,” Tak Wah Kwan and Hareton K.N., Tejedor, Project Management Journal , 48(5), pp.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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The primary economic driver of the life-cycle structure is the significantly increasing cost of making a software change or fixing a software problem, as a function of the phase in which the change or fix is made. By the way, the pure conjecture that agile enables late changing requirements to not have a significant impact on the cost and schedule of the development project is completely lacking any testable evidence outside of personal anecdotes of agile advocates.

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A Wrap Up of the #NoEstimating Conjecture Analysis to Date

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So when you hear about all the posts about #NoEstimates, take a look here to see if those posts provide any actionable outcomes that can be put to the test on actual projects - other than Slicing. . I've had a conversation of sorts with one of the "leaders" of the #NoEstimates movement who talked in circles when asked where is this method applicable outside your examples of a 5 week project and a cleanup of bugs on another project? . Books for Cost and Schedule Forecasting.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

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There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. At the #NoProjects #NoEstimates workshop it was mentioned that focus on "on-time, on-budget naturallt leads project to meet those goals and forget the value/benefits side of the equation. If you're working on a software project with NO deadlines, then you're a very lucky person. million euro Agile project.”.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

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There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. A #Noestimates advocate makes the claim that having a ±10% accuracy for estimates of cost and duration is a dangerous thing. The ±10% value has no context (as usual), but that range is certainly possible using the processes of probabilistic modeling of the project. . What is the Value at Risk for your Project?

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80+ Awesome Online Resources for Project Managers

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Where can you go to talk Gantt charts, work breakdown structures, and Agile workflows to your heart’s content with other project management aficionados? There’s a treasure trove of valuable information available online for anyone looking to sharpen their project management skills. . We’ve compiled a list of over 80 of the very best online resources for project managers, including online training sites, podcasts, ebooks, tools and templates, blogs, and more. . Cost: $400.