Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 7, 2024

Discover the importance of organizational governance systems, delve into essential project-associated functions, learn how to navigate the project environment, and ensure you are communicating and building relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Governance 52

Governance Government Technical Review Sustainability 52

MPUG

JUNE 27, 2022

I myself found that at both a major bank and a major government department, project managers were re-baselining their projects every week, and when I asked why, their answers essentially were, “Just because we can.” Ellen clarified: “Do you re-baseline your entire project every week?” “Yes” Yes” was the emphatic answer.

Governance 52

Governance Government Estimate Performance Measurement 52

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In the Project Controls paradigm, Value is a measurable attribute of the project controls process - a Closed Loop Control measure. The units of measures of Cost and Time are straightforward. The Measures of Effectiveness. Measures of Performance. The Technical Performance Measures.

2005 37

2005 Performance Measurement Closing Controlling 37

International Institute for Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Step 5: Be able to implement the steps necessary to close the performance gap between your company and other companies/organizations. The person performing the external benchmarking study must possess an excellent understanding of his/her organization’s current project management and business processes.

Aerospace 59

Aerospace Underperforming Technical Team Governance Government 59

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The only answer to that is a measure of Physical Percent Complete (P%C). P%C starts with defining the Measures of Performance and Technical Performance Measures for each deliverable as a function of time. These measures are supported by Quantifiable Backup Data. What is your actual condition? .

2010 39

2010 Governance Government Performance Measurement 39

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. Closed Loop Stochastic Adaptive control in the presence of Evolving Uncertainty. Active reduction requires we have a desired reduction goal, perform the work, and measure progress toward the rduction goal. Measure of Effectiveness.

Technical Review 35

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Epicflow Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

they have been working on it already for more than 10 years, and they are not close to what we have achieved.’ For example, a project estimated at 100 work hours might include a 20-hour time buffer for contingencies like absences or technical issues. But the professionals who executed the project considered it a huge success.

2016 52

2016 Monitoring Risk Management Healthcare 52

Herding Cats

AUGUST 12, 2017

No matter the project domain or the technical development method, project success is dependent on knowing what Done looks like in units of measure meaningful to the decision maker. These measures are stated in units, meaningful to the buyer. They focus on the capabilities independent of any technical implementation.

Performance Measurement 39

Performance Measurement Estimate Risk Defining 39

Herding Cats

APRIL 30, 2019

A recent lawsuit by Hertz Rental Car against Accenture has turned into a rallying cry by Agilest and No Estimates advocates. Of course, No Root Cause analysis has been performed by these advocates, but it makes good click bait for their followers. We play this role in ERP acquisitions for commercial and government clients .

Software Review 41

Software Review Technical Review Engineering 2018 41

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This physical percent complete is measured as compliance with the Technical Performance Measures of the outcomes of the work efforts, that consume the budget for that work. Along with the Technical Performance Measures are three other measures needed to assess progress to plan and production of Value.

Engineering 32

Engineering Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 32

Herding Cats

JANUARY 5, 2017

and the connections between each Process are made to form a Closed Loop control systems needed to manage any project. These charts are an extract from the book Performance-Based Project Management: Increasing the Probability of Project Success and the abstracted training materials Handbook. Let's start with the Principles.

Estimate 81

Estimate Closing Controlling Defining 81

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

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.

Underperforming Technical Team 44

Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2018

Determination of physical percent complete is rooted in performance measurement, the comparison of actual performance against an integrated baseline plan consisting of integrated cost, schedule, and technical goals. Earned Value Management (EVM) often anchors such a performance measurement system in DoD programs.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Performance Measurement Engineering Estimate 44

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Estimates are needed but are subject to large level of uncertainty. There can be cost and schedule performance measures as well.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). This is a closed loop control system for managing the program with a T echnical Performance Measure (TPM).

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In a previous post, Why Johnny Can't Estimate , mentioned some resources for estimating, the principles of business and technical management that demand estimates be made to make decisions, and background on the sources of uncertainty, that create risk, that require estimating to increase the probability of project success.

Software Review 34

Software Review Technical Review Estimate Software Developers 34

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). This is a closed loop control system for managing the program with a T echnical Performance Measure (TPM).

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Supporting artifacts such as the WBS, WBS Dictionary, Basis of Estimates (BOE), and the Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP) are available to help define the scope of the work to be performed and especially the entrance and exit criteria for key program Events. Validating Information with Cross References.

Planning 42

Planning Software Review Governance Government 42

Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Actual dates are different from planned or estimated dates. Actual Effort: The actual effort spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated effort. Actual Expenditure: The actual expenditure spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated expenditure.

Underperforming Technical Team 78

Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Estimate Risk Management 78

Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates or any other project attribute (in this post, cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). This is a closed loop control system for managing the program with a T echnical Performance Measure (TPM).

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Meaning to say creating value, organizational governance and systems, functions associated with projects, the project environment, and product management considerations all provide the context for how project management could be conducted. Measurement, man, they couldn’t say enough about measurement, right?

PMI 59

PMI Software Review Estimate Risk Management 59

Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

they have been working on it already for more than 10 years, and they are not close to what we have achieved.’ For example, a project estimated at 100 work hours might include a 20-hour time buffer for contingencies like absences or technical issues. But the professionals who executed the project considered it a huge success.

2016 52

2016 Monitoring Risk Management Healthcare 52