Prioritizing the Issues extracted for Getting Right People on Right Project in Software Project Management From Vendors’ Perspective

From Nobel Prize to Project Management: Getting Risks Right

A major source of risk in project management is inaccurate forecasts of project costs, demand, and other impacts. The paper presents a promising new approach to mitigating such risk based on theories of decision-making under uncertainty, which won the 2002 Nobel Prize in economics. First, the paper documents inaccuracy and risk in project management. Second, it explains inaccuracy in terms of o...

Quality control and due diligence in project management: Getting decisions right by taking the outside view ?

This paper explores how theories of the planning fallacy and the outside view may be used to conduct quality control and due diligence in project management. First, a much-neglected issue in project management is identified, namely that the front-end estimates of costs and benefits – used in the business cases, cost–benefit analyses, and social and environmental impact assessments that typicall...

Getting It Right: Issues for Medicare Reform

Normally when I provide testimony on Medicare I focus on the impacts on beneficiaries and how to improve the program so as to fairly meet its goals. And indeed, that will be a major focus of this written statement. However, I also feel compelled to begin with a number of comments that reflect my training as a traditional economist. I am concerned that in the name of "cost savings" and "efficien...

Transition: getting it right for young people.

irrespective of the presence or absence of chronic illness and/or disability. All young people will hopefully make the transition from childhood to adulthood and, along the way, move from the family home to live independently, from school to further education and/or training and/or work, and from paediatric to adult services including healthcare. Many young people make these transitions success...

STAFFING IN MATERNITY UNITS Getting the right people in the right place at the right time