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Fallacy of the Day

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Let's look at the measures for the Product or Service independently from its application in the business or fulfillment of the Mission. Here are definitions from "Technical Measurement," INCOSE-TP-2005-020-10. These measures are the basis of project success from the technical point of view. INCOSE-TP-2005-020-10.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

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Project Performance Management (#PPM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Project Performance Management. Building a Credible Performance Measurement Baseline - without a good foundation, nothing can be built. Risk Management (#RM).

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Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects

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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. Cooper, Stephen Grey, Geoffrey Raymond, and Phil Walker, John Wiley & Sons, 2005. This is good, but it doesn't reduce risk. It just closed the loop faster.

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What's Missing from the Agile Software Development Paradigm

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Without knowing what Done Looks Like, in units of Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Technical Performance Measures (TPM) - are defined at the start of a program—the planned progress of selected technical parameters. These MoE's and MoP's and other starts at the systems level [6].

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq

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When actual measures of cost, schedule, and technical performance are outside the planned cone of uncertainty, corrective actions must be taken to move those uncertanties inside the cone of uncertanty, if the project is going to meet it's cost, schedule, and technical performance goals. . Resources. [1] 10] Boehm, B.,

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq (Updated)

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The Measures that are modeled in the Cone of Uncertainty are the Quantitative basis of a control process that establishes the goal for the performance measures. This is a closed loop control system for managing the program with a T echnical Performance Measure (TPM). Resources. [1] 10] Boehm, B., 11] Cohn, M.

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Trois

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When actual measures of cost, schedule, and technical performance are outside the planned cone of uncertainty, corrective actions must be taken to move those uncertanties inside the cone of uncertanty, if the project is going to meet it's cost, schedule, and technical performance goals. . 10] Boehm, B., and Madachy, R.