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Article Career Development, Program Management, Estimating 1 October 2017

PM Network

PMO Possibilities

By Scott, Lindsay Lindsay Scott, direct of program and project management recruitment at Arras People (London), offers career advice for project practitioners looking to move up into program management and for…

Conference Paper Agile, Program Management, PMO, Estimating, SCRUM 24 April 2013

Agile processes

By Casanova, Pietro For a long time, the traditional project management approach has been questioned due to the large number of ailing projects. Moreover, due to market globalization and related growing organizational…

Article Risk Management, Program Management, Estimating May 2010

PM Network

Bolts from the blue

By Smart, Maya Payne At the core of practicing risk management is the essential truth that unforeseen events are unpredictable and therefore unknowable. Organizations can, however, establish a system that will enable…

Conference Paper Requirements Management, Strategy, Program Management, Estimating 8 November 2006

Integrando proceso, producto y proyecto usando requisitos

By Villar, Víctor The requirements of a product are a fundamental part of the success of a project; and their definition according to the process with which they are going to be aligned is key at the time they are…

Conference Paper PMO, Strategy, Portfolio Management, Program Management, Governance, Estimating 1 September 2004

Indicadores Principales de Desempeño y Paneles Ejecutivos de Control para Portafolios, Programas y Proyectos Corporativos

By Ambriz, Rodolfo La selección de los Indicadores Principales de Desempeño (IPD) debe realizarse de tal manera que se incluyan tanto los objetivos del proyecto, como los del negocio. Además, deben pensarse de tal…

Conference Paper PMO, Strategy, Program Management, Estimating 1 September 2004

Strategic alignment of project management organizational structure

By Alves Patah, Leandro Porter (1996) argues that the strategy’s essence remains in choosing the activities to be made in a different way. The strategic planning could be defined as the process of creating and implementing…

Conference Paper Program Management, Estimating 14 July 2004

Playing the game

By Condon, Edmond | Hartman, Francis T. A recent study by Aalborg University in Denmark of 258 major international transport infrastructure projects between 1927 and 1998 found that they had overrun their original estimates by an average…

Conference Paper Program Management, Estimating 1 November 2001

Seminars & Symposium

The meaning of the Cobb-Douglas function and its use in applications for services and outsourcing

By Akiyama, Yoshihiro | Brisco, Timothy J. | Fujita, Hideo | Ohkubo, Takashi A program is the collection of projects and ongoing operations in an integrated and manageable manner. Many of the activities of the program are related closely and research has been done on how to…

Article Strategy, Portfolio Management, Program Management, Estimating July 1992

PM Network

The Channel Tunnel

By Lemley, Jack K. Transmanche-Link (TML) is a consortium of five British and five French construction companies and the prime contractor for the Channel Tunnel, a project with the audacious goal of building three…

Article Program Management, Cost Management, Estimating, Aerospace & Defense 1 September 1975

Project Management Quarterly

Uncertainty analysis for program management

By Martin, M. Dean. Over the past decade, the cost of implementing a program to develop a new military weapons systems has sharply increased, primarily because the numerous methods used by the United States Department…