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The Maturing Project Sponsorship

The IIL Blog

Companies recognized the need to assign a sponsor, but there was a poor understanding of the role of the sponsor and its importance toward delivering project and project management success. Many of the people assigned as project sponsors had a poor understanding of project management practices and sometimes the technology as well.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT BENCHMARKING, an excellence enabling instrument

International Institute for Learning

This knowledge must include an understanding of the current strengths and especially weaknesses needing improvement. As an example, the aerospace division of a Fortune 500 company benchmarked against their competitors. This time, the results showed that they were poor in project management. Step 3: Analyses of Results.

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Matrix Management for Strategic Projects

International Institute for Learning

The intent is to build cross-functional project teams. In simple matrix structures, each horizontal line on the organizational chart represented a team or project and is headed up by a project or program manager whose prime responsibility is in a liaison role to coordinate information across functional units. vertical) units.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Performance Evaluation of non?

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . Numerical anchors and their strong effects on software development effort estimates,” Erik Løhrea, and Magne Jørgensen, Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo. The Future of Systems-and Software Development. Springer International Publishing, 2016.