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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. What is missing in the project management profession is a willingness for organizations to talk about why individual projects fail. Image © Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body – 2007 This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management. billion to £10.9

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What’s in your backlog?

Leading Answers

Risk avoidance and risk reduction activities – Sure, maybe. This product owner manages the backlog, keeping things up to date with the latest product decisions. Here’s a typical backlog showing a combination of features, change requests, bug fixes and a couple of risk reduction activities.   Risks in the Backlog.

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Burnout in Project Management

The IIL Blog

Stress and burnout have been recognized as serious project management problems for years, but until recently companies have been reluctant to face the problems head on. Some project managers thrive on stress and seem to avoid burnout. There is risk that burnout can spread to the entire team if not identified and controlled.

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Enhanced due diligence in banking 

Productivity Land

Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), also known as Politically Exposed Person (PEP) screening, is a process that banks and other financial institutions must use to identify the risk associated with doing business with foreign individuals. The BSA was enacted in 1970 and amended in 2001 and 2006.

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Episode 193 – Mastering the Project Sales Role: How to Persuade, Lead and Succeed

Velociteach

The podcast by project managers for project managers. Discover how project managers leverage their skills to navigate the multifaceted sales role. From the art of securing resources, fostering team alignment, and building client relationships, hear about the pillars of successful project management in a sales-oriented role.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Uncertainty is related to three aspects of the management of projects: The external world - the activities of the project itself. The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value.

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Project Management, Performance Measures, and Statistical Decision Making

Herding Cats

I work in the Software Intensive System of Systems domains in Aerospace, Defense, Enterprise IT (both commercial and government) applying Agile, Earned Value Management, Productive Statistical Estimating (both parametric and Monte Carlo), Risk Management, and Root Cause Analysis with a variety of capabilities.