Top 10 reasons why Darth Vader was an amazing project manager - GeekWire - 1 views
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Ivan Tishchenko on 19 Jan 12Interesting article which highlights important PM aspects, using Darth Vader as an example of great PM.
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Gaperton's blog - Формула - 0 views
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(Russian Article) Explains lots of various PM-related stuff. Includes: use PERT to estimate tasks and risks; method to prioritize bugs based on "value/risk rectangle" ("квадрат риск-приоритет"), and others.
How to Write a Project Charter - Part - PM Hut - 0 views
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Short but useful article with good template of project charter.
Painless Software Schedules - Joel on Software - 0 views
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Simple advice on how to do esimates, schedule, and how to later control the schedule execution. Most probably "as is" it can only be used on smaller projects. Also, highlights a few cool features of MS Excel, which can be used for the proposed method, and for other tasks.
Three-point estimation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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Short (but to-the-point) explanation of how to use PERT approach to estimation of tasks. What's important, it gives a formula to calculate confidence level.
Gaperton's blog - Такие разные отчеты - 0 views
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(Russian article) Gives an overview of how one can use regular reports (like weekly reports) "for good" and "for bad".
Critical Chain Project Management - 0 views
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Overview of "Critical Chain" approach to Software Projects.
Technical debt 101 - Medium - 0 views
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Explained in such a way that non-technical manager can understand how to deal with it.
Полезные метрики для оценки проектов / Хабрахабр - 0 views
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Интересная статья про метрики, с историями из жизни. Interesting russian article about metrics, with real-life stories of their application.
five-essential-phone-screen-questions - steveyegge2 - 0 views
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Cool and very-very detailed howto (by Steve Yegge) on how to do phone-screening interview for hiring candidates.
Managing Small Projects - Updated Template « Project Management Essentials - 0 views
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Examples of project document and status report for small projects (e.g. under 100 man-hours).
BetterMeans - Open and Democratic Project Management - 0 views
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An approach to Project Management (and the tool to implement it), where the entire process is completely transparent, and all the decisions are made by team itself.
Risk Analysis with Microsoft Project - 0 views
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Short howto on using PERT in Microsoft Project.
Prototyping Software Life Cycle Model - 0 views
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Prototyping lifecycle model.
Dynamic System Development Method (DSDM) - 0 views
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One more lifecycle model. New one. Looks like some kind of Agile. Quite complex.
Gaperton's blog - Об альтернативном методе оценки сроков (PERT Estimation sux) - 0 views
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(Russian article) Raises a valid question: how do we statistically interpret PERT deviation? Can we use it to estimate confidence level? Author thinks it is too much inaccurate, from pure statistics point of view. Proposes alternative approach (based on 2 point estimations, min & max, and Normal distribution.
V-Model (software development) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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V-Model (one more project lifecycle model). Steps similar to waterfall, but, unlike Waterfall, allows going back to earlier stages -- if a problem found on latest stage and needs to be corrected.
The Spiral Life Cycle Model - 0 views
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Spiral lifecycle. Was invented by a particular company in their specific project environment. As far as I know, has no wide applications in other teams.