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Fear of trying: the plight of rookie project managers
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Regardless of the training or mentoring approach you use, I suggest focusing on four major attributes, which I describe in their order of importance: communication, negotiation, organization and facilitation.Abstract:
Most software engineers do not want the hassle of project management. Poor project management is the number one cause of software project failure. How do we grow good project managers? What do we teach the rookies who have just been appointed to lead their first software project? Regardless of the training or mentoring approach you use, I suggest focusing on four major attributes, which I describe in their order of importance: communication, negotiation, organization and facilitation.read more
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Why did your project fail
Narciso Cerpa,June M. Verner +1 more
TL;DR: In this research, 70 failed software projects are analyzed to determine those practices that affected project outcome and quantitative evidence is provided targeting those aspects of the development process that contribute to project failure.
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Case study: factors for early prediction of software development success
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed 42 software development projects in order to investigate some early risk factors and their effect on software project success, and found that the most important factors for project success were: (1) the presence of a committed sponsor and (2) the level of confidence that the customers and users have in the project manager and development team.
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What factors lead to software project failure
TL;DR: While there does not appear to be any overarching set of failure factors, it is discovered that all of the projects suffered from poor project management, and suggestions for minimizing the four most common failure factors are concluded.
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Project Manager Skill Development: A Survey of Programs and Practitioners
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of project management education from graduate and certificate programs to organizational programs, which includes survey results of current practitioners with regard to project management training and recommendations for employees, employers, and academia to help bridge the gap between current training and skills necessary for project managers.
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The impact of staff turnover on software projects: the importance of understanding what makes software practitioners tick
TL;DR: It is concluded that improving motivation levels can reduce staff turnover, which in turn increases project success and therefore the impact of staff turnover on software projects is investigated.