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Conference Paper Scheduling, Quality Management, Requirements Management 29 October 2013

How to displease the customer or engage the customer

By Khanna, Vimal Kumar Most service companies adopt a customer-controlled approach to project execution, and typically defer to customer-defined product features, schedule, and costs. Yet, this approach does not always…

Article Requirements Management, Scheduling, Information Technology, Construction December 2010

PM Network

Healing a community

By Yovovich, Bozidar Large-scale construction projects, particularly those involving the realization of such complex structures as hospitals, require project managers to handle countless issues and manage nearly…

Conference Paper Scheduling, Requirements Management, Agile, Technical Skills, Earned Value Management, SCRUM 12 October 2010

Beyond backlogs and burndowns--complementing "agile" methods with EVM for improved project performance

By Nikravan, Bijan | Forman, James B. The agile approach can help project teams quickly adapt to changing stakeholder requirements and volatile project conditions. Earned value management (EVM) provides project managers with an…

Conference Paper Requirements Management, Quality Management, Scheduling 21 April 2004

Combining critical chain planning and incremental development in software projects

By Miranda, Eduardo A time-bound project is a project that is constrained by hard deadlines. Hard deadlines are those in which the date of delivery is as important as the delivery itself. If the project delivers after…

Article Requirements Management, Risk Management, Scheduling, Cost Management November 2001

PM Network

Government projects

By Seigle, Greg Like many types of projects, governement projects are subject to shifting priorities, requirements, andschedules, red tape and politics, budgetary fluctuations, and a multitude of other risks. This…

Conference Paper Risk Management, Requirements Management, Scheduling 1 November 2001

Seminars & Symposium

IM project success through client managed delivery

By Gauen, Douglas R. | Jones, Pamela E. Information management (IM) business transformation projects are different from traditional engineering-procurement-construction-commissioning (E-P-C-C) projects. These IM projects are called upon…

Article Requirements Management, Scheduling, Estimating, Sustainability March 1995

PM Network

Project Hanford

By Wagoner, John D. The cleanup of the Hanford Site is as significant an engineering and managerial challenge as was the Manhattan Project that created it, and both projects depended largely on the application of good…

Article Requirements Management, Scheduling, Cost Management, Aerospace & Defense 1 September 1994

Project Management Journal

A review of cost/schedule control systems criteria literature

By Christensen, David S. The United States Department of Defense has required that contractors' management control systems comply with Cost/Schedule Control Systems Criteria (C/SCSC) since 1967. The two main objectives of…

Article Requirements Management, Risk Management, Scheduling, Resource Management August 1991

PM Network

Counterpoint

By Duncan, William R. This article responds to William Roetzheim's article in the May PM Network, which argued that software development projects have unique problems and requirements that make them different from…

Article PMO, Program Management, Quality Management, Requirements Management, Scheduling November 1990

PM Network

Planning and management of the superconducting super collider

By Aprile, Robert | Kozman, Ted | Pells, David L. The superconducting super collider (SSC), like all large United States Department of Energy (DOE) projects, is subject to DOE requirements for comprehensive project planning, disciplined project…