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Hybrid Project Management: Part 1, What is Hybrid?

The IIL Blog

Predictive Winston Royce first described the waterfall approach in 1971 as a software development methodology based on his experience building systems for spacecraft. Large bureaucratic companies, government agencies, and organizations with low agile maturity fit this pattern.

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Hybrid Project Management: Part 2, What Changes?

The IIL Blog

Agile evolved from software development, where the cost of change is low. Small, multidisciplinary teams can effectively develop solutions to complex problems. In 2016, Alan founded Project Management Essentials to share his passion for and experience in project management, leadership, and Agile.

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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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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Nine Best Practices of Project Management , Software Program Managers Network (SPMN). Project Governance. Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016. Governance. Program Governance Roadmap. Architecture.

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Good Reason to Have Lots of Bad Ideas

Herding Cats

HBR, Dec 27, 2016]. So what about bad ideas in the project management world, especialy the Agile Software Development world. One starting point is to ask if the ideas have any basis in a principle of how business or development of software actually works? Governance is About Decision Rights.

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Without a Root Cause Analysis, No Corrective or Preventive Action is Credible - Part 1

Herding Cats

But before going further, let's establish the definitions we need to understand and apply Root Cause Analysis needed to discover the corrective and preventive actions to increase the probability of project success - especially Software Project Success. Hooey, Safety Science, Volume 85, June 2016, Pages 241–257. Why All This Setup? .

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5 Steps to Finding the Path to Business Agility

International Institute for Learning

We can use many patterns that have been identified and verified as good practices across many industries, including construction, government, telecommunications, travel, finance software development, and so on. However, we do not have to start from the drawing board, so to speak, every time.

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