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• People or Process. Part 2 of the article People or Process, covering the social issues with estimations, the dangers of technology and people and troubled projects.
• Guest Author: Pamela Churchill, talks about Project Management and how she helps construction businesses focus on their expertise.
• Book Synopsis: This issue's book synopsis is on Mikel Harry's and Richard Schroeder's book Six Sigma Breakthrough Strategy. It provides an overview of the techniques and implementation requirements for their Six Sigma process.

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• People or Process This is part one of a two-part article that discusses how organizations have over emphasized process and forgotten about leadership management in projects.  This edition contrasts the two elements in a project.
• Organizational Development The Organizational Development discipline focuses on human and organizational systems. This is a simple introduction to the field.
• Book Synopsis: Strategic Negotiation: A Breakthrough 4-Step Process for Effective Business Negotiation by Brian Dietmeyer with Robert Kaplan
  This book defines a process for improving results for both parties in a negotiation.

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• Classical, Critical Chain, Agile Project Management and How They Relate A comparative look at three project management methodologies major features. This article provides data on how these three methodologies compare on specific points. It can be used to note strong and weak points of each methodology.
• Book Synopsis: Identifying and Managing Project Risk by Tom Kendrick.
  Managing risk is a requirement in all projects. This book provides a complete description of managing risk in a format that can be used to assist in preparation for the PMP certification exam.

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• General Topic: Estimating Impact. Assigning an impact to risk. Expansion of the example from Issue 9 to show the estimated impact of the risk. Includes discussion on educating Management on risk.
• Tools: Risk Estimation Tool. A simple Excel spreadsheet for calculating risk effects in non-complex situations.
• Book Synopsis: Agile Project Management with Scrum by Ken Schwaber.
  Scrum, a software development technique, takes specific traits in a Project Manager. Ken Schwaber describes these techniques.

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• General Topic: Risk, first part is a series on making risk understood to management. Risk 101 A primer for a series of articles on risk. The basics of risk management and the fundamentals of statistics to support its analysis.
• Book Synopsis: The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene.
  Thirty-three strategies with examples from business, politics and, of course, war that may be used our encountered in daily life.

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