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Seven Project Management Influencers to Watch

Project Risk Coach

Up your game with new project management resources If you had to pick a few people who are helping you grow and mature as a project manager, who would those people be? She is the author of The Project Management Coaching Workbook and The Power of Project Leadership. Susanne Madsen. Susanne Madsen. Elizabeth Harrin.

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What Is Cloud Storage, and How Are Innovative Companies Using It?

ProjectManager.com

But the elephant in the room is Amazon Web Services, which launched in 2006, and has since become the recognized leader in cloud storage. Some of the disadvantages include the risk to security and the potential of unauthorized access to data. It was a risk that paid off handsomely for the company, but it involved innovative thinking.

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Project Gates: The Janus-like Guardians of Product Development

MPUG

One might conclude that agile approaches to project management, such as Scrum, mean there is no need for gate reviews. They consider the resources needed, potential risks, and strategic alignment for the next phase. We suggest blanket statements like that are of little use and amount to checking our brains at the door.

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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

ProjectManager.com

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. Scrum is a simple project management framework that facilitates team collaboration on complex product and software development projects.

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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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In-Depth: Stable Or Fluid Teams? What Does The Science Say?

Scrum.org

Kozlowski & Ilgen (2006) describe this reciprocity as “process begets structure, which in turn guides process”. Wang et al (2006) studied software teams tasked with ERP implementations and found that cohesive teams performed significantly better than less-cohesive teams. In turn, this facilitates further collaboration. Bradley et.

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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

This article explains what a risk-adjusted backlog is, why they are useful, how to create one and how teams work with them. What is a Risk-Adjusted Backlog? A risk-adjusted backlog is a backlog that contains activities relating to managing risk in addition to the usual features associated with delivering value.

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