Planio

MARCH 11, 2024

Warning signs to look out for: You’re falling behind on your project schedule The team regularly suffers from a mental block and can’t move forward Other team members are complaining of a high workload How to mitigate the risk of underperforming resources: Use resource allocation techniques to ensure the right people are assigned to the right tasks.

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Risk Technical Review Risk Management Budget 88

The Strategic Project Manager

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Indeed, the “ The Rise of the Meta City ” article says, “An August 2023 BCG survey shows that just 7% of companies have mandated full-time return to work , while only 8% have given up their offices altogether. And organizations refer to nations, which are comprised of companies, governments, and other entities.

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Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Try doing that in project management and you’ll soon realize that you’re in the wrong profession. All projects are governed by hard rules like scope, deadlines, and budget. If your budget is $50,000 and you’re well into the project, it probably is. The typical project baseline has three elements: Schedule Cost Scope.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Estimate Budget 2018 40

Traxidy

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Leaders must focus on the metrics that truly drive project success and align with organizational goals: KPI Description Ideal Range Schedule Performance Index (SPI) Measures project schedule efficiency 1.0 or greater Cost Performance Index (CPI) Measures project cost efficiency 1.0

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Technical Review Risk Management Underperforming Technical Team Leadership 40

Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assumptions are a major contributor to Project Risk, A large number of assumptions increase the overall Project Risk. Audit: The process of analyzing a project to ensure that it is being governed as intended. A project sponsor can request an audit. This is the schedule against which project progress is measured.

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Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Estimate Software Review 60

Velociteach

MARCH 4, 2024

And the thing I like about Bent is that he spent, well, 20-something years gathering a lot of data about projects and their performance. And one of the interesting takeaways from his recent book is that four out of five projects cost more than expected and deliver less benefits than we had hoped.

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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Meaning to say creating value, organizational governance and systems, functions associated with projects, the project environment, and product management considerations all provide the context for how project management could be conducted. And what are those dots? Optimizing the value delivered. Thank you, Jeff.

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PMI Software Review Estimate Risk Management 59

The IIL Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Experienced project managers know the pitfalls, yet they fall into the same traps. The Project Management Institute recently conducted a comprehensive survey of project outcomes. They identified several factors contributing to the net project success score (a net promoter score).

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Aerospace Cadence 2025 Performance Measurement 78

Teamweek

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Many industries and organizations use SOPs — including manufacturing, healthcare, and government. I recently contacted a bunch of agency owners with a survey asking them how they simultaneously kept on top of multiple client projects. But SOPs are becoming more common in the agency and professional services space.

Software Review 52

Software Review Healthcare Process Defining 52

Wrike

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

You’re the head of operations for a top government weapons organization. But there are problems around every corner: insufficient project requirements, failure from leadership to recognize risk, managers setting poor collaboration processes, aggressive competition targeting you, and so much more. X projects per year.

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Technical Review 2017 Budget Estimate 44

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Software Estimation Best Practices, Tools & Techniques: A Complete Guide for Software Project Estimators, Murali K. Software Project Cost and Schedule Estimating: Best Practices, William H. Estimating the Scope of Software Projects Using Statistics , Louis Newstrom, Louis Newstrom Publisher, December 4, 2015.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

What the Data Say About IT project Risk in the Public Sector,” Alexander Budzier and Bent Flyvbjerg, in Commonwealth Governance Handbook, 2012/2013: Democracy, development, and Public Administration, Commonwealth Secretariat, December 2012. A Survey on Software Estimation Techniques in Traditional and Agile Development Models,” B.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Research clearly shows the root causes of most software projects cost and schedule overruns and technical shortfalls comes from poor risk management. and Guo, Y., “The

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