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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. What is missing in the project management profession is a willingness for organizations to talk about why individual projects fail. The Scottish Parliament building.

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Understanding Project Management Complexity.

The IIL Blog

By Dr. Harold Kerzner January 15, 2025 What is meant by project management complexity or project complexity? The Early Years of Project Management The birth of modern project management practices was heavily oriented around projects that were initiated based upon well-defined requirements that were known at the onset of the project.

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Deciphering Goals

Scrum.org

Governments, businesses and NGOs have aspirational goals. Risks, politics, personal agendas often subvert the original goal either by design or unwittingly, turning high impact outcomes into mediocre outputs. Figure 1 Product Management Onion with Goals and their Categories. Risks of absent or bad Goals. Goal Instances.

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How To Take Over An Existing Project [Free Checklist]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The previous project manager might have moved on to do something else and you’ve got the project as part of an internal reshuffle of resources. You won’t know if the risk log is sound and the resource planning sensible until you investigate. First, establish the authority that the project manager (that’s now you) has on this project.

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12 Project Management Rules You’d be Wise to Note

Online PM Courses

When you have been Managing Projects for a while, you will start to notice that some things are always true. Each of these ‘ Project Management Rules ‘ reminds us of something important about Project Management, so I have been collecting them for nearly 20 years. Mike’s Project Management Rules.

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What is IT Service Management?

The IIL Blog

Information Technology is a young industry with several even younger career paths, one of which is Information Technology Service Management (ITSM). As governments and organisations began to utilise IT to run their organisations, the concepts of ‘services’ began to evolve. million years.

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Agile: Past, Present, & Future. A Conversation with Agile Trainer, Rubin Jen.

International Institute for Learning

Rubin Jen has been in the project management field for over 23 years, spanning aerospace, engineering, telecom, software development, outsourcing, consulting, not-for-profit and government sectors. He has worked with companies such as Bombardier Aerospace, Celestica, Accenture and the Ontario Government.

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