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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Project Performance Management. Connecting the 5 Principles and 5 Practices of Performance-Based Project Management ® To Increase the Probability of Project Success. Building a Credible Performance Measurement Baseline. Measures of Product Value is Exchange for Its Cost. Technical Performance Measures.

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Start with Principles, Not Personal Anecdotes

Herding Cats

I've seen estimates abused by bad managers, so let's NOT estimate and that will fix the behavior of Bad Managers." While the human behaviors are real and observable, conjecturing that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the outcome of those decisions, there is no principle to support that conjecture.

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Modeling the Future is the Basis of Project Success

Herding Cats

For approaches that have been implemented on existing systems, obtaining such understanding may require measurement and analysis. For scenarios where the project under consideration does not yet exist, performance prediction using analytical modeling or simulation is necessary. This is the basis of Earned Value Management.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Project Performance Management (#PPM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Those lessons are directly transferable to the management of software development teams.

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What's Missing from the Agile Software Development Paradigm

Herding Cats

Agile software development is framed by a manifesto , a set of 12 principles, several methods. These are all focused on developing software, delivering that software to those paying the developers. Anything less results in systems not worth having or fail to function or perform. [3],

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Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects

Herding Cats

All making things smaller dos is show that you're late, over budget, and what you're building (Technical Performance Measures) doesn't work faster. So here are some books, handbooks, and guides that sit on my shelf that are used pretty much all the time on the Software Intensive System of Systems we work on. No References?

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

Estimated Project-Oriented Job Openings 2010-2020: . The number of firms with a PPM process in place grew from 64% in 2003 to 71% in 2013. [13]. Implement/enhance performance measurement process – 39%. [13]. Inadequate cost estimates – 29%. Inaccurate task time estimate – 27%. 8,153,340. . 3,975,650. .

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