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Why do projects fail? (Includes examples!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The Airbus A380 was due to take to the skies in 2006. Instead, tax payers have footed the bill. The Channel Tunnel construction project saw its budget rise from £4.8 billion to £10.9 The international team did not use compatible design software which led to snowballing problems. Causes of project failure.

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Pulse of the Profession 2018: Success in Disruptive Times by Managing Projects Effectively

Inloox

ABOUT THIS REPORT Conducted since 2006, PMI’s Pulse of the Profession® is the premiere global survey of professionals who provide project, program, or portfolio management services within global organizations. Increased government regulations. The Pulse charts the major trends for project management now and in the future.

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Burnout in Project Management

The IIL Blog

Articles are now appearing addressing burnout specifically in a project management environment [Verma (1996), Haynes and Love (2004), Richmond and Skitmore (2006), Pinto et al., 2014), and Jugdev et al., Dawood, Shariffah; Pinto , Mary Beth., May2014, Vol. 32 Issue 4, p578-589. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2013.09.003. 2013.09.003. Richmond, A.,

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What’s in your backlog?

Leading Answers

Working as a developer at Data Sciences Ltd in the UK I wrote a program to manage our work tasks on a government project. I wrote about these ideas when I started blogging in 2006 as Risk Profile Graphs. “It’s All Just Work We Have to Do”. I was first exposed to backlogs of work in the early 1990s.

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Do we need a command and control approach to deal with this issue?

Ron Rosenhead

Shown on TV 1999- 2006). I had just completed one of two pilot project management courses for a client and after a meal and rest I decided to watch a few episodes of the West Wing. In one of the episodes, the President of the USA asks to meet an expert on India- Pakistan affairs.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Project Governance. Event-Based Scheduling , 10 November 2006. Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016. Governance. Program Governance Roadmap. Principles of Program Governance. Project Driven Organization Framework.

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Emergent Change – Making Sense of a Messy Environment

Tony Adams

Work with your Project Management Office to understand the wider environment that you are working in – identify the constant, messy, iterative, unplanned bottom-up change drivers that create so much uncertainty – changes in government policy, market threats/opportunities/trends, emerging competitors or products. and Cunliffe, A.

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