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Conference Paper Change Management, Risk Management 26 October 2014

Lessons learned from the U.S. health benefit exchange projects

By Lepore, Dominic This paper examines the lessons learned of the health benefit exchange websites mandated under the U.S. Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010. States could either join the federal exchange or implement…

Conference Paper Risk Management, Portfolio Management, Program Management, Change Management, Benefits Realization 29 October 2013

I have this great idea!

By Grafsgaard, Brian Innovation is often associated with great ideas. While many organizations focus on the "Great Idea Hunt," the real challenge is to realize the intended benefits of that idea. Benefits realization…

Conference Paper Risk Management, Program Management, Change Management, Aerospace & Defense 29 October 2013

MRAP

By Hansen, David K. | Dean, Dennis R. | Gibson, David L. | Flinder, Sharon W. The U.S. Department of Defense Joint Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicle Program (JMVP) Program Office (JPO MRAP) executed a project to rapidly develop, acquire, and field the MRAP family…

Conference Paper Risk Management, Change Management 29 October 2013

Utilizing organizational change management best practices for the roll-out of an enterprise project management framework

By Lane, P. Brandon | Green, Brenda K. The merger of Duke Energy and Progress Energy in 2012 created the world's largest publicly traded electric utility, spanning six states, serving more than 7 million customers, and including a…

Conference Paper Risk Management, Change Management, Organizational Culture, Stakeholder Engagement 29 October 2013

Change management would be easy if people weren't involved

By Abudi, Gina Project managers often focus on managing changes that occur to our projects; however, that is not sufficient. We forget the very important component of managing stakeholder's expectations around…

Conference Paper Change Management, Risk Management, Decision Making, Construction 14 July 2010

A proposed construction design change management tool to aid in assessing the impact of design changes

By Hindmarch, Helen. | Gale, Andrew W. | Harrison, Robert Current practice shows that construction design change management relies heavily on the experience of practitioners to assess the impact of a proposed change. This U.K. government- and…

Conference Paper PMO, Risk Management, Quality Management, Change Management, Communications Management 13 October 2009

Herding the global cats of a successful PMO

By Margules, Cindy Over the past decade, organizations worldwide have been establishing project management offices (PMOs) so that they can more effectively manage projects and integrate project management into their…

Conference Paper Change Management, Scheduling, Risk Management 14 July 2004

Toward a unifying theory for compounding and cumulative impacts of project risks and changes

By Cooper, Kenneth G. Much too common are those projects that fail because of the cumulative effect of several small setbacks, the impact of which significantly drives project costs over budget and schedules past…

Conference Paper Quality Management, Communications Management, Risk Management, Change Management 21 April 2004

The communications pipeline--instrumentation, diagnosis, measures and maintenance

By Noor, Iqbal | Martin, Robert | Gupta, Rajesh This paper addresses the essential components of effective project management communications and illustrates how about 90 percent of a project manager's time is spent on communications. The…

Conference Paper Risk Management, Change Management, Leadership 1 November 2001

Seminars & Symposium

Five lessons learned – from the memoirs of Wile E. Coyote

By Slone, Kelly R. IntroductionHow many of us are guilty? We stampede along chasing our projects at the speed of light driving them through execution. Our foreheads sweat profusely; our lungs gasping for the next…