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Why is it a project manager’s job to fix companies?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Projects are the future, a good portfolio office can influence and shape strategy and project management is the only way to holistically deliver improvements. At the roundtable discussion about project management in the collaborative age way back in 2012, the talk turned to how project managers could shape strategy. All good stuff.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

Take for example the deployment of an ERP system, the installation, and startup of a process control system, the release of a suite of embedded software controllers for a car, aircraft, petrochemical plant. A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Now To Risk Management.

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In-Depth: How Easily Biases Distort What We Believe (In The Workplace)

Scrum.org

Initially coined by cognitive psychologist Lee Ross (1977), it happens when people underestimate the influence of the situation on the behavior of others while overestimating the influence of their personal traits and beliefs (Berry, 2015). This bias is also known as the ‘correspondence bias’. Examples in the workplace. Anchoring bias.

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

Scrum.org

Edmondson (2012) argues that dynamic teaming is important to share and encourage learning. This is also what inspired Edmondson (2012) in her academic work on “teaming”. They also tend to perform better (Evans & Dion, 2012), are better able to deal with stress and pressure (Salas, Driskell & Hughes, 1996). R., & Dion, K.

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Thinking By Sprinting: What Cognitive Science Tells Us About Why Scrum Works

Scrum.org

Software development is (generally speaking) very complex. Nevertheless, the motto of software development is often ‘first solve the problem, then write the code’. Retrieved from [link] on December 17, 2012; Gigerenzer, G. Retrieved from [link] on December 17, 2012; Heylighen, F. Consider a thermostate.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Five Principles of Project Success , PMI, Northern Utah Chapter, Professional Development Day, 2012. Improving DOE Project Performance Using DOD Integrated Master Plan , Waste Management Symposium Feb 26 - Mar 1, 2012. Product & Process Development Kaizen , LPPDE, Denver, Colorado, April 21-23, 2008.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Agile Software Development (#ASD). 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. Those lessons are directly transferable to the management of software development teams. Enterprise IT and Embedded Systems (#EIT).