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7 Hidden dangers of project management (Or why even well-planned projects sometimes fail)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

During a company integration program, customer service levels dropped by 25-50% because the team management focused their efforts on reorganizing and changing employees’ roles and responsibilities, all with “the best of intentions”. For example, in June 2010 Chrysler merged with Fiat. So why do some projects crash to their doom?

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PMI Are some more equal than others?

The Lazy Project Manager

So what is my concern and why am I mentioning PMI? So what is my concern and why am I mentioning PMI? Well I’m not just focusing on PMI but the behaviour I am concerned about seems to be rather more prevalent within PMI and PMI Congresses than others. Let me explain. I go to project management conferences, a lot.

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Waterfall Should Have Never Existed: Part 1

MPUG

your project team). Banks have essentially been software developing organizations for a long time. This has led to a dramatic growth in software development projects and in the number of software project managers we’ve seen and will continue to see. I will explain how you can marry these two seemingly?opposite To manage-in (i.e.

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How to Adapt and Flourish in the New World of Project Management

Leading Answers

With the rise of AI, agile, and empowered teams, are project managers even needed anymore? We all want to remain valuable to our organizations and teams. So as project managers, we should be getting familiar with online collaboration tools and how to facilitate geographically dispersed teams. How to Keep Your Best Team Members.

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A Better Microsoft Project: Workload Levelling and Resource-Critical Path

MPUG

If you manage a resource-constrained project, you will often artificially delay activities as to not overwork (or burn out) your team members. Examples are software development, new product development, pharmaceutical clinical studies, telecommunication, research and development, education, and government projects.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD). The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. But each method needs to be based on 5 Immutable principles to be successful, no matter the domain or context, PMI Spring Seminar , 2012, Austin TX.

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10 Project Management Hacks Every Project Manager Should Know

The Squad Report

A KPMG survey of 100 businesses reported 70% of organizations faced at least one project failure in the year 2010 alone. An effective project manager is one who will always look for ways to streamline the project, team collaboration, and its outcomes. He/she creates a bond with the team members separate from deadlines and launch dates.