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Project Management, Performance Measures, and Statistical Decision Making

Herding Cats

In this domain, we are guided by credible results using principles, processes, and procedures to increase the probability of program success. Figure 1 - Planned Estimates versus Actual Performance from [1]. What processes are in place to execute according to plan? Herding Cats: Probabilistic Cost and Schedule Processes.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

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Managment Processes. Making the Impossible Possible: Applying Heliotropic Abundance for creating Program and Project Management Processes. Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning. Project Performance Management. Building a Credible Performance Measurement Baseline. Presentations and Briefings.

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Cone of Uncertainty - Revisited

Herding Cats

Specific actions to reduce the Episuncertaintiesnaties and Margin to handle the Aleatory uncertainies are part of any good project management process. . The Cone of Uncertainty,” Stephen Gryphon, Phillippe Kruchten, and Steve McConnell, Letters, IEEE Software , 23 (5) 2006, pp 8?10. 37–48, 2007.

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Deconstructing The Cone of Uncertainty

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Don't toss out the notion that reducing risk and uncertanty and all other performance measures doesn't follow the plan. . Carol Brennan, John Wiley & Sons, 2006. Estimating Processes in Support of Economic Analysis. Estimating Software Intensive Projects in the Absence of Historical Data," Aldo Dagnino, ICSE 2013.

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Modeling the Future is the Basis of Project Success

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PP&C lives in the domain of Project Management and Controls, which is a Technical Management Processes of ISO 15288. In ISO 15288 this is the role of the Risk Management Processes. For approaches that have been implemented on existing systems, obtaining such understanding may require measurement and analysis.

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq

Herding Cats

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]

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq (Updated)

Herding Cats

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).