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Article Decision Making, Portfolio Management, Quality Management, Risk Management December 2004
PM Network
Strategic growth decisions
By Ingebretsen, Mark Organizations often grow as a result of adjusting their portfolios to most efficiently use their resources. In order to manage a portfolio of projects and optimize the project pipeline, companies…
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Article Quality Management, Risk Management March 2001
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Putting quality in project risk management, part 2
By Leach, Lawrence P. Part 1 described two common mistakes in managing project variation caused by the confusion between special-cause and common-cause variations. Control charts were developed by Walter A. Shewhart as a…
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Article Quality Management, Risk Management February 2001
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Putting quality in project risk management, part 1
By Leach, Lawrence P. In the area of project risk management, there is always some uncertainty in estimating project task cost and duration, as well as variation in actual task cost and duration. In assessing past…
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Article Quality Management, Risk Management, Cost Management May 2000
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A balance sheet for projects
By Goodpasture, John C. | Hulett, David A project delivers value to its investors within a prescribed limit of risk. This article describes a way of obtaining this prescribed level of risk at the outset of the project. From management's…
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Article Quality Management, Risk Management, Communications Management June 1997
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Escalate is not a dirty word
By Whitten, Neal Are you and another project team member just unable to see eye-to-eye? After an earnest attempt to negotiate a resolution without success, you have to call on higher levels of project leadership for…
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Article Quality Management, Risk Management May 1997
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Great Expectations: Turning Failure into Sucess—and Vice Versa
By Baker, Bud In 1954, President Eisenhower announced the failure of the nation's massive interstate highway system. In retrospect, that project has been rather successful and become the envy of the world. The…
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Article Quality Management, Risk Management March 1996
Project Management Journal
Learning to lead, to create quality, to influence change in projects
By Peters, Lee A. | Homer, John L. The use of simulations to enhance professional crafts has a long history. Simulations can be used to accelerate the learning curve, and reduce the risks associated with training. The authors of this…
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Article Quality Management, Risk Management, Information Technology 1 June 1994
Project Management Journal
Avoiding large-scale information systems project failure
By Martinez, Erwin V. Inattention to project management fundamental principles can lead to failure in a project. This is amplified in large-scale projects where it is more difficult to recover from mistakes. To avoid…
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Article Quality Management, Risk Management, Estimating March 1994
Project Management Journal
Project budgeting
By Scotto, Marie A large number of the problems managers are facing in projects can be traced directly to the use of inappropriate budgeting and management techniques on project efforts. Although the engineering and…
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Article Risk Management, Quality Management, Scheduling December 1990
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The project manager
By Hamburger, David H. Because all projects involve some degree of uncertainty, project managers must not only act as effective risk takers but also perform as flexible contingency planners. This article examines how…
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