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Inspiring Women in Project Management: Amy Hamilton

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I decided in 2007 to obtain my PMP® and that is when I really become serious about formal project management. I currently perform IT Project Management for the US Government in Stuttgart, Germany. Women have come a long way in project management and in the US Government. What is your current role? Thanks, Amy!

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Why do projects fail? (Includes examples!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The Airbus A380 took its maiden transatlantic voyage in March 2007, silencing the critics and proving it could use runways shorter than other smaller jets. A version of this article first appeared on this blog in 2007. The Scottish Parliament building. There are other issues at play that can cause your project to fail.

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Understanding Project Management Complexity.

The IIL Blog

The Fuzzy Front End The fuzzy front end (FFE) of a project is where executives, stakeholders, and governance personnel would meet to select and prioritize projects for execution. In many companies, up to 60 percent of the strategic projects failed to meet goals and objectives. Directional complexity. 2] Snowden, David J., and Boone, Mary E.

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Deciphering Goals

Scrum.org

Governments, businesses and NGOs have aspirational goals. Mary Boone and Dave Snowden, 2007, A Leader’s Framework for Decision Making, Harvard Business Review Press. Grand ideas, visions are everywhere. Once the why is understood, autonomy, mastery and purpose become viable or even the only meaningful way of working (Daniel H.

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How To Take Over An Existing Project [Free Checklist]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Check #5: Governance. Is there a governance structure? For other areas of governance such as reporting and approval levels, talk to your PMO and get these in place. Who is your project sponsor? What’s the reporting schedule? What are the internal sign off hoops you have to go through? Check #6: Budget. Is the budget approved?

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ITIL for Project Managers – Should you?

Online PM Courses

First, ITIL has a strong emphasis on the governance of IT. These twin concerns with governance and quality account for ITIL’s benefits to the organizations that use it. The UK Government sponsored the creation of ITIL in the 1980s, by the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA). The History of ITIL.

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What is IT Service Management?

The IIL Blog

As governments and organisations began to utilise IT to run their organisations, the concepts of ‘services’ began to evolve. ITIL was partly in response to the UK government’s desire to standardise how we deliver IT services and became the de-facto approach to what became known as ITSM.

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