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Where to begin creating your project budget?

Defining a budget for development projects is frequently referred to as an art form. As seems to be true with all business ventures, your cost projection can easily be the subject of “fuzzy math,” with little bearing on reality. Hourly rates for development time, escalation costs for rapid development, and pricing of tools and other [...]

How Do You Determine Project Success?

Is fulfilling the triple constraints sufficient to determine if a project is successful?  I asked this question of PM students in my online course about management and leadership in a project environment:
“I worked a project that had rules in place by upper management when I arrived that said that if you used a tool to [...]

Secrets of Successful Project Management

Managing software projects is difficult under the best circumstances. Unfortunately, many new project managers receive virtually no job training. Sometimes you must rely on coaching and survival tips from people who have already done their tour of duty in the project management trenches. Here are 20 such tips for success, which I’ve learned from both [...]

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